No joke here. It’s so very sad. Loretta and Linda Sánchez’s brother Henry Sánchez and his girlfriend Penny Avila are believed to be the dead found after a boat sank in Southern California…

Body found in sunken boat believed to be brother of Reps. Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez

What happened that clear, moonless night in the Catalina Channel is still very much a mystery.

A Santa Ana couple were going for a midnight cruise to Santa Catalina Island, and a huge 128-foot barge was lumbering toward the Port of Los Angeles.

Radar shows the two mismatched vessels colliding sometime between midnight and 12:20 a.m. Oct. 2. The impact smashed the small boat, but the pilot of the barge didn’t even know an accident had occurred.

Later that morning, the debris was found.

On Thursday, two bodies were pulled from the ocean. They are believed to be those of Henry Sanchez, the brother of two Southland congresswomen, and his girlfriend Penny Avila, who were described as experienced boaters.

Investigators are still trying to figure out how their small craft collided with the barge and sank to the ocean floor.

Yes that is the brother of the Sanchez sisters:

FYI they are the ones that are NOT Nancy Pelosi.

Read more about it here.