RCMP calls off search for sunken scallop dragger in the Bay of Fundy

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Officials have said the boat is too far underwater for police divers to descend and recover any bodies on board.

Family members of fishermen who died when their scallop dragger sank in the Bay of Fundy reacted with shock and disappointment Saturday to word that the RCMP had officially called off its efforts to recover the vessel..

“You go through a roller coaster and the roller coaster gets to the edge and it just stops, and you come crashing down. You know they’re not going to do it, and it’s your son’s final resting place,” Lori Phillips, the mother of Aaron Cogswell, said Saturday morning. He said the scallop dragger was lying too deep for police divers to safely don their tanks and descend to recover any bodies that might still be on board, as rules prohibit the RCMP underwater recovery officers from going below 48 metres.

Bishop said the team transferred onto a coast guard research vessel and started to deploy a small, torpedo-shaped sonar system towed behind the boat. The searchers began at the site of some debris and worked their way several kilometres toward where the final emergency signals were detected when the boat sank.

During the search, Kraken Robotics, a private firm with state-of-the-art sonar, offered the RCMP use of its technology without charge, but the company has said the police force declined.

 

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So sad for their families

RIP

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