The family of one of the five fishermen believed to have perished after their boat overturned in stormy seas off Nova Scotia says it's too soon to conclude the Miss Ally is gone, despite an aerial search that has turned up nothing but scattered debris.
Three aircraft patrolled the area of the Miss Ally's last known position Thursday morning and afternoon, following a plea from the families of the missing men to continue the search for the 13.5-metre boat and attempt to recover their bodies.
Several aircraft went back out over the area Friday morning and the Canadian Coast Guard ship Sir William Alexander has been steaming toward the area, more than 100 kilometres southeast of Liverpool, since Thursday night.
A Canadian Armed Forces CC-130 Hercules aircraft joined aircraft from Transport Canada and Newfoundland-based Provincial Airlines to patrol an area measuring more than 1,700 square kilometres on Thursday, said RCMP.
There was no sighting of the overturned hull of the boat that had last been spotted by the Canadian Coast Guard at 4:26 p.m. on Wednesday. The RCMP said a small debris field was spotted about 10 nautical miles east of the Miss Ally's last known position, and the combined location and concentration of the debris meant it likely came from the boat.
This is some of the debris that search crews believe likely came from the Miss Ally. (RCMP) George Hopkins, the father of crew member Joel Hopkins, told CBC News on Friday morning that it's too soon to conclude the Miss Ally has sunk and he's waiting until a private vessel with divers arrives at the last known location of the overturned boat.
In current weather conditions, that could take about 30 hours, he said.
That private fishing boat left Ecum Secum, on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore, on Thursday and headed toward the Miss Ally with four divers on board.
Concern for private vessels
The head of the RCMP in southwestern Nova Scotia said she's worried about the safety of fishermen on private vessels trying their own recovery of the missing boat.
"Certainly that remains our concern here for the safety of those brave fishers going out there on their own," RCMP Supt. Sylvie Bourassa-Muise told CBC News on Friday.
There has been no sign of the five young fishermen who were aboard the Miss Ally. (Facebook) "We hope that they're all right but that information as to where they're at, that's not trickling back to us and that gives me great concern. I can appreciate their frustration and wanting just to help out and going out to scene in support of the families, but their safety right now is of concern to me."
Bourassa-Muise said RCMP have set up a mobile command post in Woods Harbour, where the missing men lived, and expect to be there for at least the next two days.
"Our focus remains with the family here in Woods Harbour and providing their needs and that includes providing them with as much information that we have on the recovery efforts," she said.
"It will be here as long as it takes. There's two facets to our mission here. One is a recovery effort and the other one is to be here in support of the families."
Men left port on Feb. 12
The formal search for Hopkins, Billy Jack Hatfield, Katlin Nickerson, Steven Cole Nickerson and Tyson Townsend was called off Tuesday night after officials concluded there was little hope any of the men would have survived the rough seas and cold water.
RCMP are now handling it as a missing persons case.
Family members of the fishermen have been pleading their case to have the boat searched before it sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Several of them believe the crew, who left Cape Sable Island on Feb. 12 to go fishing for halibut, may have been trapped inside the wheelhouse on the Miss Ally when it overturned in 10-metre waves while being whipped by winds.
The military has said the Miss Ally's emergency locator beacon — which typically activates when it hits salt water — transmitted a signal on Sunday night about 120 kilometres southeast of Liverpool.
There were no distress calls broadcast from the vessel's crew before the beacon went off, said the navy.
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