Missing Boat

[B.C.]

5th District Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard
News Release
Date: Oct 11, 2010

Contact: Public Affairs Det. Atlantic City

(609) 677-2204
Coast Guard searches for 6 near Atlantic City, N.J.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Coast Guard is searching for six men aboard a 32-foot boat who are overdue about 85 miles east of Atlantic City Sunday.

Overdue is Bernie Otiemsky, Jerry Lewis, Ed Silcox, Geoffrey McDade, James McDade and Ray Somerville.

The Coast Guard received a call at 6:40 p.m. from the wife of one of the missing men reporting the men left Forked River, N.J., aboard the vessel Black Magic on Saturday for an overnight fishing trip to Toms Canyon and were due back Sunday morning.

Two rescue helicopter crews from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, an aircrew of a Coast Guard C-130 aircraft from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Finback, homeported in Cape May, N.J., a rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light, N.J., and a rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet, N.J., are participating in the search.

Anyone with information about the missing boaters is asked to call Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay at 215-271-4960.


I hope everthing works out for them.

[LuckyLady]

Sorry to jack your thread , I figured a more descriptive title might strike someones memory

[snowranger]

Update

By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer Wayne Parry, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Six New Jersey men failed to return from a weekend overnight fishing trip, and the Coast Guard was searching for their sport-fishing boat Monday off the coast of Massachusetts, where they might have issued a mayday call.

Thomas McDade said his father, Geoffrey, and 26-year-old brother, James, were among the group that left Saturday morning on a trip to catch tuna about 85 miles east of Atlantic City. They were to return Sunday morning and when they weren't home by the evening, Thomas McDade said his mother called authorities.

The search for the 32-foot vessel, Black Magic, initially focused on the area near where the men had planned to go fishing.

But a Coast Guard radio tower on Martha's Vineyard picked up a mayday call around 1 a.m. Monday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jonathan Lindberg said. A recording of the call was played for families of the missing, one of whom recognized the voice as that of her husband.

The search then was expanded to include Martha's Vineyard, though the guard was continuing to search the area off New Jersey, he said. Two rescue helicopter crews from Atlantic City, a C-130 aircraft from Elizabeth City, N.C., and three Coast Guard boats from ports along the Jersey shore are searching.

Lindberg said there has been no contact with the boat since the mayday call, and no emergency beacon had been detected. The boat was equipped with an emergency positioning radio beacon, or EPIRB, which is designed to float free when the unit gets wet and automatically broadcast its position to rescuers.

The mayday call offered some hope that the boat hadn't capsized or sunk.

"I've been trying their cell phones, but they're too far off shore," said Thomas McDade. "There's nothing much we can do except hope and pray."

The weather in the area was mostly calm over the weekend, said Greg Heavener, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's southern New Jersey office.

"The winds were fairly benign," he said. "There were a few spikes where it briefly reached 25 knots, but that was very, very quickly. There weren't any gales out there, and the seas were 3 to 5 feet, nothing out of the ordinary."

Geoffrey McDade is a diesel mechanic and James McDade is a machinist in the Navy.

The other men aboard were identified as Bernie Otremsky, of Haddon Township; Jerry Lewis, Ed Silcox and Ray Somerville, whose hometowns were not immediately available. Thomas McDade said several of them live near Forked River and most are experienced deep-sea fishermen.

Besides the EPIRB, the vessel carries an array of safety gear including a global positioning system, an autopilot, three VHF radios, a supplemental radio known as a single-sideband radio and an inflatable life raft, according to the boat's website.

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Associated Press writer Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield contributed.

[bigfishhooker]

Prayers for a safe return for the Black Magic crew.

[B.C.]

Sorry to jack your thread , I figured a more descriptive title might strike someones memory

No problem, I changed it if you want to change it go ahead.

[Shortfin]

Hope for a safe return it was all over the VHF from South East Sector New England today

[deskperado]

They have been located!

[Parapapam]

They have been located!

Is the crew safe? I pray they are!!!

Mike

[deskperado]

just read on NJ.com they are all safe and sound.

[Old Salty]

ALL are safe, here it is.
Another great job done by the USCG
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...n_fishing.html

Old Salty