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TOFINO, B.C. — The search continues for three missing First Nations fishermen whose boat sank off the coast of Tofino.
While the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre has scaled back its search and handed the case over to Tofino RCMP as a missing persons file, dozens of community members and volunteers continue to comb the shoreline and seas for the men.
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation spokesman Connor Paone says are about ten boats were on the water this afternoon, plus an RCMP vessel with a dive team and sonar searching the ocean floor.
An emergency operations centre has been set up on a nearby dock to monitor search progress and mental health workers from the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council
RCMP and the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre say there were five people aboard the six-metre tin boat that went down without a mayday call early Friday morning and that one person was rescued from the water while another swam ashore.
Paone says the First Nation is not releasing the names of the missing because it has not received permission from their families to do so.
The Canadian Press
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