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One person is missing and three others have been brought to shore been rescued after a fishing vessel capsized near Halifax Thursday night. The vessel in question is the 18-metre Fortune Pride.
Joint Rescue Coordination Centre responded to emergency beacon on Thursday nightCBC News
· Posted: Feb 07, 2025 8:59 AM EST | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago
Search and rescue teams are continuing to search for a missing person after the Fortune Pride, seen here in a photo taken last November in Lunenburg, N.S., capsized Thursday evening near Sambro, N.S. (JKamPhotos)One person is missing and three have been brought to shore after a fishing vessel capsized near Halifax Thursday night.
The vessel in question is the 18-metre Fortune Pride, CBC News has confirmed.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax said Friday that it responded to an emergency beacon at around 10 p.m. The location of the beacon was approximately 18 kilometres southeast of Sambro, N.S.
Two coast guard vessels, the CCGS Hare Bay and the CCGS Sir William Alexander, were involved in the rescue efforts, in addition to a Cormorant helicopter and a Hercules fixed-wing aircraft, said the JRCC.
The JRCC said the CCGS Hare Bay “recovered” three people, two conscious and the third unconscious. They were all taken to hospital.
Lt.-Cmdr. Len Hickey, JRCC senior public affairs officer, said the search for the missing person is ongoing. One of the coast guard vessels remains on the scene and the aircraft is set to return.
“The conditions were pretty much unfavourable for a search last night,” Hickey said. “It was low visibility, as you’d expect, high swells, etc.”
