Missing fishermen: Search continues despite no success so far

The search for sunken vessel MV World Friend 307 and its missing crew members, unsuccessful so far, is nevertheless continuing.

This is according to Minister within the Public Works Ministry, Deodat Indar, when contacted on Thursday for an update on the search.
“The search is continuing. As of yesterday (Wednesday), they went out, they still were not successful in locating that sunken trawler,” he explained. “They actually yesterday (Wednesday) check on the northwest side four square miles,” he noted.
On Thursday, the team began analysing the data it has gathered so far, and will make a determination on the way forward.
“So today (Thursday) they’re looking back at all the areas that they checked. Since last week Monday they have been checking,” the Minister explained. “So, they been constantly checking. In addition to two trawlers from Noble, MARAD also has an equipment that can scan the floor of the ocean there, they said about 50ft deep of the general area where they are checking, 15 metres to be exact,” he added.
This vessel, owned by Noble House Seafoods, capsised in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, February 19, some 18 miles off of Mahaicony.
This resulted in three of four crew members going missing while a lone member survived.
Missing are 44-year-old Captain Harold Damon of Lot 4 Water Street, Agricola, Greater Georgetown, and two crew members: 46-year-old Winston Sam of Lot 32 Public Road, McDoom, Greater Georgetown and 78-year-old Ronald Burton of Lot 23 Water Street, Agricola, Greater Georgetown.
The fourth crew member, Vincent Dazzell, survived the tragedy and was rescued by another fishing boat and brought to shore on the afternoon of the capsizing. He said that before coming to shore, the boat that rescued him spent some three hours exploring the area in search of the three missing fishermen, but to no avail.