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Yahoo
22-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Search underway for missing boater off Labrador coast
A search and rescue effort is underway for a missing boater off the east coast of Labrador, a Joint Rescue Coordination Centre spokesperson told CBC News on Tuesday. The missing boater is aboard a 20-foot sailboat, with a last reported position — from one week ago — estimated to be 296 kilometres, or 160 nautical miles, off of Cartwright. The JRCC said the sailor had been updating friends and posting on social media about the trip. The last time they were heard from was on Thursday. A Hercules aircraft was deployed from Trenton, Ont., and the Canadian Coast Guard sent vessels to the area to participate in the search. PAL aircraft are also helping in the search. The JRCC said the person is from Tadoussac, Que., and sailed out of Blanc Sablon with the intention of reaching Greenland. No other details are available. Download our free CBC News app to sign up for push alerts for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador. Sign up for our daily headlines newsletter here. Click here to visit our landing page. Solve the daily Crossword
CBC
22-07-2025
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- CBC
Search underway for missing boater off Labrador coast
A search and rescue effort is underway for a missing boater off the east coast of Labrador, a Joint Rescue Coordination Centre spokesperson told CBC News on Tuesday. The missing boater is aboard a 20-foot sailboat, with a last reported position — from one week ago — estimated to be 296 kilometres, or 160 nautical miles, off of Cartwright. The JRCC said the sailor had been updating friends and posting on social media about the trip. The last time they were heard from was on Thursday. A Hercules aircraft was deployed from Trenton, Ont., and the Canadian Coast Guard sent vessels to the area to participate in the search. PAL aircraft are also helping in the search. The JRCC said the person is from Tadoussac, Que., and sailed out of Blanc Sablon with the intention of reaching Greenland. No other details are available.
CBC
21-07-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Military helicopter rescues injured hiker from Cape Breton Highlands
A hiking trip in the Cape Breton Highlands turned into a rescue mission when a hiker got hurt on a trail in Pollett's Cove early Sunday evening. The call for help came in just before 6:30 p.m. from a pair of hikers, one of whom was injured. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) had to send a Cormorant helicopter to pick them up from the trail located just outside the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in northwestern Inverness County. "Unfortunately, due to rough waters in the area, the fire and EHS services weren't able to reach the injured hiker, and at that time the decision was made to task a Cormorant helicopter from Canadian Forces Base Greenwood," JRCC public affairs officer Maj. Trevor Ackland said Monday afternoon. "The Cormorant arrived on the scene, found the hikers, and then hoisted them up into the helicopter, which then took them to the airport [in Sydney], where they were met by EHS, and were then transported to the hospital." Maj. Ackland could not confirm the nature of the injury suffered by the hiker or their current condition. He advised a cautious approach for hikes in the Pollett's Cove-Aspy Fault area, which are described as "demanding" even by veteran members of the hiking community. "We just suggest that everybody remembers safety first when enjoying the great outdoors in Nova Scotia and around the Maritimes," he said.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Hydrogen balloon heading for Europe makes emergency landing in P.E.I.
Three crew members are safe after a hydrogen air balloon on a transatlantic flight path had to make an emergency landing in Prince Edward Island. "It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that The Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Balloon has been forced to land ... with a suspected gas leak," reads a post on the Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Flight Control Facebook page. The balloon landed in a swamp near Cardigan, on P.E.I.'s east coast, where crew members became stuck, said the Halifax-based Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC). The rescue centre said a local EMS team treated one crew member for minor injuries, and all three are safe. JRCC is no longer involved after assessing the situation, the centre told CBC News. The Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer was aiming to be the first craft of its kind to cross the Atlantic Ocean, according to the group's website. A post on the site said the balloon, "piloted by Bert Padelt and co-piloted by Peter Cuneo and Alicia Hempleman-Adams, will take flight as part of an audacious adventure of old friends on a journey that will look for new scientific discoveries while aiming to become the first ever flight of an open basket hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic." The project's website said the balloon took off from Presque Isle, Maine, on May 24. "Their route will take them from Maine over Newfoundland, Canada, across the Atlantic Ocean, and then Ireland and Scottish waters before landing in Europe, traversing over many thousands of miles," the site said. TSB assessing situation The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has been made aware of the landing and is collecting data and assessing the incident, the federal agency confirmed. RCMP were called to assist, but are no longer involved as there is no investigation, police said. In the hour before the emergency landing, many Prince Edward Islanders noted the white aircraft in the sky and posted photos and questions about it on social media.
CBC
30-04-2025
- General
- CBC
Emergency search for missing man in plane crash will continue until sundown, official says
Search efforts for a missing Spanish man in the waters off Newfoundland will continue until sunset Wednesday, according to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Halifax. The search began on Tuesday when an Air Tractor AT-802 crashed 240 kilometres east of St. John's at around 8:40 a.m that morning. Wednesday's search involves the Canadian Coast Guard, a Hercules aircraft and a Cormorant helicopter, according to JRCC Lt.-Cmdr. Len Hickey. "The intent is to carry on with search until sundown tonight. At that time, all assets involved in the search are going to return to base and the case is going to be turned over to the RCMP as a missing persons [investigation]," Hickey told CBC News Wednesday afternoon. He added the decision to hand the investigation to police is based on survivability modelling of the crash. "Normally it's policy by JRCC to go well past what would be expected for someone to survive in this scenario," Hickey said. "When they're confident that they've certainly been out there searching well past the chance that the person would survive, then it's passed on." This missing man is from Spain, Hickey said, and was piloting the plane he recently purchased from the United States. The plane was destined for the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. "He was flying that aircraft up the eastern seaboard. The intent was for the last touch point in North America to be St. John's, and then they were going to make the hop across the Atlantic," Hickey said. Searchers found an oil slick on the water near the crash site Tuesday. Hickey said it's too early to tell if it — or the crash — was caused by a mechanical issue with the plane. Search conditions had improved on Wednesday, he added.
