Sunday, February 16, 2014

Three men feared dead at sea in college - online newspaper

Posted 2/14/14 9:31 Last updated 14/02/14 10:19

– We are in the process of starting up the search at sea, police said.

Lindesnes / Oslo (NTB-Elin B. Øvrebø): Searches for the three men who are missing at sea at Lindesnes will continue Friday. Then it will be sought after apparently deceased people.

Chief of Staff at the College police, Bard Austad, states that there will be new search for the three missing but Friday morning is not the details of the search ready.

– There will be new search, but so far we have not come up with the details of where and how. I’ve talked a lot with the Rescue Coordination Centre, Coast Guard and rescue boats to gather impressions about what has happened and what should be done, he said.

Continued storm

– We are in the process of starting up the search at sea, and it will be strandsøk during the day. The wind has calmed somewhat, but it still blows fresh and according to weather it should blow up. In such wind and current conditions we can not go out with divers or videobåt, place chief of staff.

However, it is clear that the rescue coordination center (RCC) will not be other than an advisory role in searches and that it will be put into a helicopter in exploration work.

The search for two fishermen, the brothers in the 60s, was launched Wednesday night. The brothers went out in a small trawler of about 15 meters to fish shrimp between Lindens and Farsund Wednesday morning. Over 80 volunteers from the Red Cross, Civil Defence and individuals helped in the search Thursday.

Friday Fædrelandsvennen reports that local fishermen who know the brothers will assist police in the search for prawn trawler using sonar.

Little Hope

Thursday afternoon fell a 23 year old man of the sea close to where it was searched for two missing fishermen. The wind was northwesterly winds in the area when the accident skjedde.Et Sea King helicopter searching for the man with the thermal imaging camera with no luck.

Chief of Staff Austad says that both cases are now into a new phase and that it should be sought after apparently deceased people.

– There is little hope of finding them alive now. But because we have no evidence of how they disappeared, we want to keep the pressure up. When it comes to 23-year-old will be most relevant overflatesøk. There are lots of islands in the area, he said.

created crisis team for relatives in Lindesnes. (© NTB)

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