Coast Guard continues search for missing crew members off NC coast

Thursday, January 9, 2020
The Coast Guard keeps looking for two missing crew members after a commercial fishing vessel sunk off the North Carolina coast.

A shrimp boat sunk in the Pamlico Sound on Tuesday night, causing one death and two to be rescued. Two others are unaccounted for.
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Wednesday afternoon, the Coast Guard launched an aircrew from Air Station Elizabeth City to conduct search patterns for the two missing people, along with a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet.

It's not known what caused the boat to sink.
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