May 19, 2013 - 4:57 AM
HALIFAX - A search will resume today along New Brunswick`s northeast coast for two missing lobster fishermen.
A vessel with three men aboard hit a sandbar in rough seas early yesterday morning and started taking on water.
The body of a 23-year-old man from Tracadie-Sheila was later found near where the boat ran into trouble off of Tabusintac (ta-BOO’-sihn-ak).
The RCMP say a 35-year-old man from Tabusintac and a 32-year-old man from Brantville are still missing.
A military search for the two was called off Saturday afternoon about 10 hours after the boat issued a distress call.
The Rescue Centre in Halifax said two Coast Guard vessels and a Cormorant helicopter did all they could to find the two, and the matter was now in the hands of the R-C-M-P.
Mounties, along with search teams from Miramichi and Restigouche and local residents were expected to continue combing the shoreline today for any sign of the two men.
The Transportation Safety Board is also sending a team to investigate the tragedy.
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News from © The Canadian Press, 2013