Search for missing fisherman expected to resume
Posted Dec 17, 2009 05:59:56 AM.
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Search officials hope to be able to resume aerial surveillance at first light as they scour waters off Yarmouth for a missing fishing boat and its captain.
The search in an area off Yarmouth was scaled back late Wednesday amid snowsqualls and high winds.
The 17-metre dragger Pubnico Explorer sank Wednesday morning and three other crew members were rescued. But there’s been no sign of the captain, who was reported to be wearing an immersion suit.
A Hercules aircraft and a Cormorant helicopter involved in the search were forced to leave the area, but Maj. James Simiana of the search and rescue centre in Halifax says they will likely be back in the air around 8 a.m.
Simiana says wave conditions have increased in the area to the extent that its hampered efforts by the coast guard vessel that continued the search overnight.
