Four fishermen were rescued early this morning after being forced to abandon their vessel off the province’s south coast.
Officials were called out around 1:27 this morning when the Lawn Bay Pride started taking on water about 44 nautical miles south southeast of the French Islands of St. Pierre et Miquelon.
SAR techs from the 103 Rescue Squadron in Gander and the 413 in Greenwood, Nova Scotia arrived on the scene.
MRSC
St. John's @CoastGuardCAN was alerted at 1:27 am to the FV Lawn Bay Pride
taking on water. Comms were lost & their EPIRB was activated. Due to the
immediate actions of the fishermen and SAR personnel, all are safe and SAR
personnel have returned home— HfxJRCC_CCCOS (@hfxjrcc) September 23, 2019
Adding to the difficulty in the rescue was the loss of communications. The men were found with the help of an emergency position radio beacon.
SAR techs were lowered to the life raft and the fishermen were hoisted to safety and flown to Marystown.
