Coast Guard Searching for Missing Tanker Ship Crewmember 400 miles off Cape Hatteras
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.
