PORTSMOUTH, Va. —
The Coast Guard is searching
for a man Wednesday who reportedly fell overboard from a merchant vessel
approximately 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C.
The master
of the 478-foot merchant vessel Ice River contacted Coast Guard
watchstander's via satellite phone at approximately 10:30 a.m. stating that a
33-year old male crewmember was missing from the ship.
Coast
Guard watchstanders at Sector North Carolina diverted a crew aboard an HC-130 Hercules
from Air
Station Elizabeth City, N.C., which was conducting training in the vicinity,
to commence a search.
A second
Hercules crew took off from the air station at approximately 1:30 p.m. to join
the search.
A Navy E-2
Hawkeye crew from Squadron
VAW 124 was also diverted to help in the search.
"Coast Guard and Navy aircraft are conducting a joint
search to locate the missing person," said Lt. Cmdr. James Weaver, the chief of
Incident Response at Sector North Carolina. "It is our hope that our combined
efforts and resources will bring the missing person home safely."
The Ice
River's crew is also assisting in the search.
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