Search suspended for man missing from yacht adrift in Atlantic
Rescuers suspended a search on Tuesday for a man believed to have been aboard a yacht found drifting off France’s Atlantic coast, maritime authorities said.
On Tuesday, search efforts for a man believed to be aboard a drifting yacht off France's Atlantic coast were halted, according to maritime authorities. The yacht's overturned dinghy was discovered on Tuesday afternoon, but no trace of the missing individual was found, reported the Atlantic maritime prefecture. The search was called off due to the lack of new information, the statement from the prefecture read.
The search had been temporarily paused overnight before being resumed during the day with the assistance of a helicopter and an Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft. The CROSS, a regional operational surveillance and rescue center, was notified on Monday evening about a 13-meter yacht found adrift approximately 130 kilometers southwest of Penmarc’h, on France's Atlantic coast.
The alert was triggered by a passenger on a Brittany Ferries vessel sailing from Portsmouth, Britain, to Bilbao, Spain, who observed the yacht in distress. According to an AFP journalist on the ferry, the vessel halted its journey and dispatched a rescue boat with three crew members, who did not locate any signs of life on the yacht or in the surrounding waters. Maritime authorities had stated that the yacht was drifting in relatively calm seas.
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