The coroner’s office today released the name of a man found inside the hull of a 21-foot boat that capsized off the coast of Long Beach.

Philip Kahler, 55, was a Corona resident, coroner’s Lt. Larry Dietz said.

Crews found Kahler when they responded about 4:45 p.m. Friday to an emergency radio channel distress call reporting the vessel overturned against the east end of the federal breakwater about 1 1/2 miles from Ballast Point Brewing, Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Brian Fisk said.

Long Beach police and Fire Department officials at the scene where a victim was transported to the Ballast Point pier, near the entrance to Alamitos Bay. Photo by Stephen Carr.

Witnesses at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club told City News Service they saw paramedics perform life-saving measures on the victim at a dock near Ballast Point Brewing at Alamitos Bay Landing, but the unresponsive man was later pronounced dead at a hospital, the Long Beach Police Department said.

Crews searched in the water and from the air for any other possible victims but found none.

Later that night, the fire department announced the search-and-rescue effort would transition to “an investigative/vessel recovery phase.”

The wrecked boat was pulled to shore near Appian Way and Bay Shore Avenue in Alamitos Bay.