Summary
The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday suspended its search for 18 crew members lost at sea when a tanker carrying 3.2 million gallons of ethanol exploded and sank Saturday evening off Virginia's Eastern Shore.
"The Coast Guard did search as long as there was a reasonable chance for survival, and as time went on, those chances diminished," Petty Officer Tim Pike, a Coast Guard spokesman, said after the rescue mission was abandoned shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday.See the full content of this document
Extract
Search for Survivors of Tanker Blast Ended
Guardsmen rescued six survivors and recovered the bodies of three crewmen, but had not found the others after ne...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
