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Search resumes for signs of schooner

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An air force Orion will resume the search for the crew from the vintage schooner Nina which has been missing in the Tasman Sea for a month.

The sailing ship, with six Americans and one British man aboard, has not been heard from since June 4 Asian college of knowledge management.

They left on their journey from Opua in the Bay of Islands to Newcastle in Australia on May 29 but struck bad weather days into the trip as winds hit 110km/h and swells were as high as 8 metres.

Bad weather halted the search for the 21m vessel on Wednesday, but Rescue Coordination Centre said the air force aircraft would search an area of 73,000 square nautical miles, most of which has not been searched before Business Registry Hong Kong.

The nine-day search has failed to find any sign of the crew, the 85-year-old schooner or its liferaft despite searching an area four times the size of New Zealand.

The six Americans on board were captain David Dyche, 58, his wife Rosemary, 60, their son David, 17, their friend Evi Nemeth, 73, as well as a 28-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman.

The Briton has been named as Matthew Wootton, a 35-year-old from Lancaster Asian college of knowledge management.
by hunexpect | 2013-07-04 12:40 | 生活百事達


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