[Update] Body Pulled From Bay as Recovery Effort Continues From Tuesday Sinking
Jul 16, 2026
The body of one of the three remaining missing women from the sinking of the pleasure craft Volare on Tuesday was pulled from San Francisco Bay on Thursday afternoon, and it has been identified.The San Francisco Police Department announced that they recovered one new body from the Bay as of Thursday
. Per the department, just after 1 pm, "SFPD Marine Unit 3 was conducting sonar scanning when a passing vessel alerted officers of a body in the water west of Treasure Island."The decedent's name was reported by KTVU following confirmation from the SF Medical Examiner and posts on social media from her family. The body was identified as that of 58-year-old Tondra Miller, aka Tondra Madruga. According to members of the Boisa family, who were hosting a memorial on the Bay for a loved one, Maria Boisa, who died by suicide in 2015, Madruga was a friend of Maria's who had come along for the event.Prior to Thursday's discovery, the only confirmed victim of Tuesday's tragic capsize and sinking incident is 79-year-old Clifford Boisa of Sutter County. However we have since learned that Boisa's wife Jackie is among the missing, as is his sister Carol.The two women, along with Madruga and another woman, Clifford's neice Yvonne Thatcher, who survived, were together in an interior cabin when the boat rolled over, and the women were reportedly trapped.The Chronicle reported earlier that the Coast Guard continues to assess how and when it will locate the sunken ship using an underwater drone — given that its depth is beyond the reach of divers. It's not clear if a full recovery of the vessel will occur, as this will require the help of a third-party salvage company.ABC 7 has a new report on the route that the Volare took on Tuesday, which included a jaunt outside the Golden Gate to the ocean. The 50-foot cabin cruiser boat was reportedly ocean-worthy, and its captain, 62-year-old John Boisa, Clifford's younger brother, had taken it down the coast to San Diego last year.The ABC 7 report, seen below, also includes a new image of the three-deck vessel from before it sank. It had been moored at the San Francisco Marina Yacht Harbor, not at the St. Francis Yacht Club Marina, as previously reported.
Related: Victim Identified as Boat Captain's Brother In Tuesday Sinking on the Bay; Missing Women Were Reportedly Trapped In Boat's CabinThis post has been updated throughout following the identification of Tondra Madruga.
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