The families of the five fishermen believed to have perished after their boat overturned off the coast of Nova Scotia in a storm are waiting to hear whether officials will launch a salvage operation on the boat.
The formal search for the five-member crew of the Miss Ally was called off Tuesday night after officials concluded there was little hope any of the men would have survived the rough seas and cold water. RCMP are now handling it as a missing persons case.
Cpl. Scott MacRae said several agencies are looking to see whether a salvage operation of the Miss Ally is safe.
"Our hearts and our prayers go to the families down in Woods Harbour. One can only imagine the difficult time in their lives to lose loved ones," he told CBC News on Thursday.
"We'll be looking to provide an update to the media later today."
There has been no sign of the five young fishermen who were aboard the Miss Ally. (Facebook) Billy Jack Hatfield, Joel Hopkins, Katlin Nickerson, Steven Cole Nickerson and Tyson Townsend left Cape Sable Island on Feb. 12 to go fishing for halibut.
Several of their family members have said they believe the crew may have been trapped inside the wheelhouse on the Miss Ally when it overturned in 10-metre waves and while being whipped by winds.
George Hopkins, father of Joel Hopkins, said the Canadian Coast Guard has tracked the overturned ship and he wants the 13.5-metre boat searched before it sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
"We need closure now. We need this boat to be looked at that's turned over. We need it looked at to know that there's no one inside that boat," he told CBC News on Wednesday.
"I'm thinking if it was a movie star or some high politician, this would be looked at really quick. I'm not sure that it isn't going to be but I'm not getting any feeling that it is."
Maj. Martell Thompson of the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax said the most recent sighting of the boat's hull was confirmed by crew members aboard the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Earl Grey at 4:26 p.m. on Wednesday.
Asked whether consideration was given to searching the hull, he said weather and sea conditions didn't allow the hull to be safely boarded.
People in the community of Woods Harbour, where the missing men lived, have contacted a professional dive team called Dominion Diving Ltd. about going out and searching the vessel.
Sarah Thorburne, the stepmother of Katlin Nickerson, said the company has told the families it will assess the risk of getting to the vessel and sending a diver.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it spotted this life-raft early Monday morning during a search for the crew of the Miss Ally. It has not been seen since. (U.S. Coast Guard) If a dive team can't be hired, fishermen in the community are discussing going out to the Miss Ally themselves to search.
The military has said the Miss Ally's emergency locator beacon — which typically activates when it hits salt water — transmitted a signal on Sunday night about 120 kilometres southeast of Liverpool.
There were no distress calls broadcast from the vessel's crew before the beacon went off, said the navy.
Early Monday morning, the crew aboard a U.S. Coast Guard jet reported seeing a life-raft in the dark, but they couldn't tell if anyone was inside or where the raft came from. The life-raft was not seen again in the two-day air and sea search that followed.
"If my boy is in that boat, I want to bring him home," said Stephen Nickerson, father of Steven Cole Nickerson.
"I think he's in that boat."
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