Sealers rescued off Newfoundland coast after signal heard in Ont.
Last Updated: Monday, April 14, 2008 | 7:06 PM NT
CBC News
An emergency signal heard in Ontario led to the rescue of five sealers from an ice pan near their burning boat off Newfoundland's northeast coast on Monday.
Officials in Trenton, Ont., reported receiving an emergency signal from the 36-foot Lacy May, but an initial search for the vessel by a rescue helicopter off of Catalina found nothing.
A second search located the vessel — which was burned to the water line — and the sealers, who with their gear were floating on the ice.
A Department of National Defence Cormorant helicopter was dispatched to the position, 23 kilometres east of Catalina, and found a "vessel that was fully engulfed in flames, and five people were on the ice," said Kevin Barnes with Maritime Search and Rescue in St. John's.
The sealers, who were not injured, were flown to Gander.
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