A boat with three men aboard hit a sandbar in rough seas early yesterday morning and started taking in water. The body of the 23-year-old man from Tracadie-Sheila was found approximately five kilometres offshore of Tabusintac, the location of the boat when the trio sent out a mayday call. Military efforts to find the other two fishermen were called off about 10 hours after they issued their distress call.
The Rescue Centre In Halifax said that two Coast Guard boats and a Cormorant helicopter did everything they could to find the two. The RCMP, along with search teams from Miramichi and Restigouche and people who live in the area, are expected to keep combing the shoreline for any sign of the men.
