US Coastguard resume search for missing sailors
Relatives, friends and MPs are calling on the US Coastguard to resume the search for the four sailors missing from a yacht from a Hampshire-based yacht mid-atlantic.
US Coast Guard en-route to search for missing sailors
The US Coast Guard said that several aircraft and vessels are now trying to find the yachtsmen. Crews from the US Coast Guard, US Air Force, Canadian military are now "en route".
From the air, the operation includes the HC-130 Hercules aircraft from the US Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, the US Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous, from Cape May, New Jersey, and a US Air Force C-130 aircraft from Moody Air Force Base, in Valdosta, Georgia.
In a statement the US Coast Guard said "The 1st Coast Guard District covers from New Jersey to Canada with search and rescue duties extending approximately 1,300 miles from shore. Units across the Northeast conduct more than 2,500 search and rescue cases in a year, and rescue more than 300 people."
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