A Coast Guard search is going on for a long time because a fishing boat went missing off Cape Cod on Sunday morning. In the ocean off the coast, a father and daughter found the 30-foot fishing boat’s GPS. This was the first sign that the boat had gone missing.
The Coast Guard said Shawn Arsenault is the captain who needs to be found. His family and lover came along with the plan. They said they were worried about him and hoped he would be found.
A GPS plotter that said “F/V Seahorse” was found by Sam Miller and her dad on the beach on Sunday morning.
Sam Miller said, “I just hope they find him quickly.” “I noticed in the surf there was something floating, so I went down to see what it was, and it turned out to be, we could tell it was a GPS unit off of a boat.”
That Sunday, Sam and her dad went to Rock Harbor in Orleans to try to return the GPS. They left a note on Arsenault’s truck, but by Monday, they still hadn’t heard anything, so they went back and called the harbormaster.
“My family went to Rock Harbor a couple of times and saw that the nobody had picked up the note-the truck was still there so my dad contacted the harbormaster and let him know what was going on and said, ‘can you let us know if everything OK with this boat,'” said the man. “And that person, ‘responded thanks for letting us know we’ll look into this.'”
The Coast Guard is now actively searching the water around Cape Cod Bay.
Chatham’s cell phone rang.
People knew that the Seahorse fished near the Target shipwreck off of Eastham, but the last time a cellphone thought to be on board was pinged was two miles off of Chatham.
Commander Cliff Graham of the Coast Guard said, “We turned on the Cape Cod Mutual Response System.”
It was hard to see during the search because of the fog and rain.
Captain Graham said, “Up today we are under a small craft advisory.” “Our search efforts are a little diminished because of the weather.”
The family of the captain and the people who found the GPS are still hope for good news.
“I would like to be optimistic because the alternative is not so great,” said the man. “Hopefully he’ll just come chugging back into the harbor and be like what’s all the fuss about?”
To make things even stranger, the Coast Guard says they don’t think the weather on Sunday had anything to do with the lost boat.
Rescuers say they will look again on Wednesday morning to see how the search is going.
