U.S.and Canadian Coast Guard Search for Missing Woman

December 14, 2006

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard C-130 aircraft are searching an area 470 miles southeast of Cape Cod for a woman reported missing from the 189-foot Canadian sail training vessel Picton Castle last night.

At approximately 9 p.m. Friday, personnel at the Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, received a call from the captain of thePicton Castle, reporting that one of his female crewmembers had gone missing from the vessel in 40 knot winds and 22-foot seas.

RCC Halifax contacted Coast Guardsmen at the RCC in Portsmouth, Va., who assumed control of the search.

At approximately 2 a.m. RCC Portsmouth diverted the motor vessel Lake Phoenix a nearby AMVER vessel (Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System) vessel to the scene to assist in the search.

At 5:30 a.m. a Coast Guard C-130 search crew, from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., was dispatched to the scene to relieve the crew of the Canadian C-130 who had been searching throughout the night.

U.S.and Canadian Coast Guard Search for Missing Woman

RCC Halifax contacted Coast Guardsmen at the RCC in Portsmouth, Va., who assumed control of the search.

At approximately 2 a.m. RCC Portsmouth diverted the motor vessel Lake Phoenix a nearby AMVER vessel (Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System) vessel to the scene to assist in the search.

At 5:30 a.m. a Coast Guard C-130 search crew, from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., was dispatched to the scene to relieve the crew of the Canadian C-130 who had been searching throughout the night.

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