PORTLAND (AP) – A search continued on Monday for a fisherman who was reported missing off the Maine coast after his fishing boat went down.
The Coast Guard got a call around 10 p.m. Sunday after the fishing boat Bluewater III reported finding a fisherman floating in a life raft about 35 miles southeast of Vinalhaven, according to Paul Conner, a search and rescue controller for the Coast Guard.
The fisherman said that he and another man were on the Taylor Emily, based in Port Clyde, when it began taking on water Sunday afternoon, Conner said. The fishermen had to tread water while their life raft deployed, and one of the men didn’t make into the raft, he said.
A number of fishing vessels and a Coast Guard cutter were searching the waters Monday morning for any signs of the fisherman, Conner said. The Coast Guard also expected to send aircraft to help in the search.
AP-ES-11-27-06 0753EST
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