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'No hope' for missing fisherman | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
Coastguards say there is "no possibility" that a fisherman missing after his boat was found adrift off West Sussex will be found alive. | |
An intensive sea and air search was launched for the skipper of the 18ft vessel. But as night fell the search was called off. | |
The man, thought to be in his 40s, sailed out of Littlehampton Harbour on Saturday morning. | |
His empty boat was spotted two miles off the coast at 1143 GMT. | |
A spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "It was quite an intensive search operation but unfortunately nothing was found. | |
"The coastguards will probably do a shoreline search in the morning, but there would be no possibility of survival after such a long time in the water at this time of year." | |
Coastguards were alerted after another fisherman who left the harbour at the same time became concerned when the man failed to return to shore. | |
Three RNLI lifeboats from Littlehampton and Selsey and a coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Lee-on-Solent were scrambled. | |
Two Royal Navy warships, HMS Severn and Tracker, also joined the search. | |
The one-man vessel, which was found with its nets still cast, was towed back to Littlehampton. |
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