Search under way for fishermen after Vincentian boat overturns

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):

The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is currently searching for five fishermen who have been missing since their vessel sank offshore the twin-island republic on Saturday.

According to the coast guard, shortly before 4 p.m. (local time), a distress call was made which said that the St Vincent and the Grenadines-flagged vessel, the MV Fair Chance, had hit rough seas and sank after its cargo shifted.

Two men survived and were picked up by a vessel from the coast guard, five miles north of Monos Island.

The vessel was carrying a shipment of steel products that was loaded in Port of Spain.

Reports out of St Vincent and the Grenadines said that the boat’s captain, Dexter Chance, is among the missing.