BOSTON (AP) – The Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing fisherman Monday afternoon, three days after his boat went down between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

Searchers had been looking for Michael Leonardo, 45, of Fairhaven, since Friday night. The captain of a sport fishing boat saw white smoke coming from the commercial fishing vessel, the Nancy Christine, then saw it sink in about 40 feet of water in the Muskeget Channel between the two islands, the Coast Guard said.

The body of other fisherman aboard, Wayne Ingham, 54, also of Fairhaven, was found Sunday morning about a mile south of Martha’s Vineyard.

The Coast Guard used rescue boats, cutters, a helicopter and jets to look for the men over 560 square miles in rough seas brought on by Hurricane Frances.

Searchers originally thought that there might have been a third person on the Nancy Christine, but determined on Saturday that only Leonardo and Ingham were aboard.

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