Qld: Missing trawler could be on the ocean floor
24 Apr 2009 1:06 PM
The search is continuing for two missing deckhands after their fishing trawler sank in the Torres Strait.
Five helicopters .. six planes and a custom boat are scouring the ocean for the two men after an emergency beacon was set off about three this morning .. seven nautical miles east of Darnley Island.
The boat's 42-year-old skipper was rescued from a small dinghy about eight this morning and is recovering in a Thursday Island hospital.
A local fishing boat has picked up an echo-sounding of what could be the missing 17-metre trawler .. on the sea bed at its last known position.
The Australian Search and Rescue coordination centre is working to confirm the find.
