Winnipeg sailor missing from Canadian navy ship, military says
A search is underway in waters west of San Francisco for a master sailor from Winnipeg who s gone missing, the Canadian military says.
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Posted: Dec 15, 2020 5:11 AM CT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
A master sailor is missing from HMCS Winnipeg, seen here dockside in Vancouver in 2014. (Jimmy Jeong/The Canadian Press)
A search is underway in waters west of San Francisco for a master sailor from Winnipeg who s gone missing, the Canadian military says.
Duane Earle is believed to have accidentally fallen overboard HMCS Winnipeg early Monday, about 925 kilometres off the coast, National Defence said in a statement released Tuesday.
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A Canadian sailor is missing and believed to have fallen overboard on Monday from HMCS Winnipeg.
Duane Earle, a Boatswain, from Winnipeg, is believed to have fallen from the ship while it was about five-hundred nautical miles off San Francisco.
Earle was not noticed to be missing until later in the day, and the vessel turned back along its route to do a search.
Winnipeg’s Cyclone helicopter was also launched to look for him.
The Canadian Air Force and US Coast Guard are involved in the search.
The Winnipeg was returning to Esquimalt after being deployed to the Asia-Pacific region.