Coast Guard Searches for Missing Tanker Ship Crewmember 400 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 06/24/2020 03:14 PM EDT

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Coast Guard Searches for Missing Tanker Ship Crewmember 400 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

CAPE HATTERAS, N.J. —The Coast Guard is searching for a crewmember of a tanker ship approximately 400 miles east of Cape Hatteras, Wednesday afternoon.

Watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s Fifth District command center received a report from watchstanders at the Coast Guard's First District Command Center that a man overboard had been reported aboard the tanker ship Hellas Gladiator. 

An Air Station Elizabeth City HC-130 Hercules aircraft was launched to search for the missing crewmember, along with two good Samaritan vessels which were notified via Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue messages. 

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