No sign of missing Montreal sailor: Chilean searchers
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 9:26 AM PT
CBC News
Chilean and Ecuadorian search crews have scoured their coastlines for a missing Montreal woman, but have made no sightings so far.
Jade Chabot left for Chile in January to learn how to be a skipper aboard a 13-metre sailboat, called SS Columbia.
The boat was expected to arrive in Coquimbo, Chile, around the same time as a magnitude 8.8 earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit a 700-kilometre stretch of Chile's coast.
Chabot's husband, Martin Neufeld, says the various coast guards still consider the SS Columbia overdue and not missing. The vessel won't be considered officially missing until Friday.
"I've been trying to ask them, what will happen on Saturday?" he asked. "Are you just going to have a change of status? I've never really had a clear answer what that means."
Neufeld says Chilean authorities have gone as far as 500 kilometres off the coast in their search for his wife's boat. He says wants searchers to go even farther, to Robinson Crusoe Island where his wife's ship was scheduled to sail.
Neufeld said a second Canadian woman, from British Columbia, and another seasoned sailor from Australia were also on the boat, along with captain Boguslaw Norwid and his wife.
With files from The Canadian Press
