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2 Dead, 1 Missing After Commercial Fishing Boat Capsizes Near Tofino

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 06 Sep, 2015 01:58 PM
    VICTORIA — Two people have died after a commercial fishing boat capsized near Tofino, B.C.
     
    Both are presumed to have drowned.
     
    Another person was rescued from a life raft and a fourth is still missing.
     
    The fishing boat went down off the coast of Vancouver Island near Estevan Point Saturday night.
     
    The company that owns the boat alerted the Coast Guard after crew missed a check-in.
     
    Three Coast Guard vessels and a Cormorant helicopter are searching for the missing person. (CFAX)

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