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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.

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Ships in the Atlantic join search for missing sailors

Ships across the Atlantic are being called upon tonight to join the search for four local sailors - missing now for 6 days. Their yacht is believed to have capsized on their way back to Southampton.

Andrew Bridge from Farnham and James Male from Romsey are 2 of those missing. The search resumed last night after an official request from the UK Government, and pressure from the sailors' families in Surrey and Hampshire. Tonight the US Coastguard have given this update on the search.

Captain Anthony Popiel from the US Coastguard-

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