Missing yachtsmen: Online petition urges U.S. Coast Guard to resume search for missing U.S. sailors
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The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed several aircraft and vessels on Tuesday in the search for four missing UK yachtsmen after more than 200,000 people petitioned for search efforts to be relaunched.
The initial search for the four British citizens and their yacht the Cheeki Rafiki, missing since Friday, was called off after 53 hours amid severe weather.
The missing yachtsmen departed for Southampton, England on Thursday after spending the week at the Antigua Sailing Week regatta in the Caribbean. After the yacht started to take on water on Thursday night about 620 miles east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the yacht's 21-year-old skipper got in touch with Southampton charter firm Stormforce Coaching while the crew was directed to try to keep the boat stable.
The sailors said they were diverting course for the Azores right before they lost contact with the charter company in the early hours of Friday.
U.S. and Canadian aircraft and three merchant vessels were involved in the initial search for the missing yachtsmen who were believed to have evacuated onto a life raft.
One of the commercial ships located an overturned hull that matched the description of the missing yacht on Saturday before the search was called off on Sunday.
After a request from the UK government, the U.S. Coast Guard agreed to resume the search, deploying a HC-130 Hercules and a U.S. Air Force C-130 along with the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous on Tuesday.
The father of the 21-year-old missing skipper thanked the U.K., Canadian and U.S. authorities for relaunching the search and urged people to continue to petition online in support of the effort.
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The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed several aircraft and vessels on Tuesday in the search for four missing UK yachtsmen after more than 200,000 people petitioned for search efforts to be relaunched.
The initial search for the four British citizens and their yacht the Cheeki Rafiki, missing since Friday, was called off after 53 hours amid severe weather.
The missing yachtsmen departed for Southampton, England on Thursday after spending the week at the Antigua Sailing Week regatta in the Caribbean. After the yacht started to take on water on Thursday night about 620 miles east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the yacht's 21-year-old skipper got in touch with Southampton charter firm Stormforce Coaching while the crew was directed to try to keep the boat stable.
The sailors said they were diverting course for the Azores right before they lost contact with the charter company in the early hours of Friday.
U.S. and Canadian aircraft and three merchant vessels were involved in the initial search for the missing yachtsmen who were believed to have evacuated onto a life raft.
One of the commercial ships located an overturned hull that matched the description of the missing yacht on Saturday before the search was called off on Sunday.
After a request from the UK government, the U.S. Coast Guard agreed to resume the search, deploying a HC-130 Hercules and a U.S. Air Force C-130 along with the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous on Tuesday.
The father of the 21-year-old missing skipper thanked the U.K., Canadian and U.S. authorities for relaunching the search and urged people to continue to petition online in support of the effort.
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