Search underway for missing woman last seen on ferry from N.S. to N.L.

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 17, 2025 1:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

An aerial and h2o hunt is underway for a pistillate who is believed to person fallen overboard from the MV Blue Puttees ferry arsenic it travelled from North Sydney, N.S., to Port aux Basques, N.L., aboriginal Wednesday morning.

RCMP accidental a 41-year-old pistillate was seen connected surveillance footage astatine 3:26 a.m. NDT connected July 16, and has since been reported missing.

"As we are not definite of her existent location, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and Coast Guard person been engaged to enactment a hunt by water," an RCMP spokesperson wrote successful an email.

The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre successful Halifax confirmed to CBC News the pistillate is suspected to person fallen overboard.

"The RCMP person searched the vas extensively upon accomplishment successful Port aux Basques, N.L., and did not find the individual," Lt.-Cmdr. Len Hickey, a spokesperson for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre successful Halifax, said successful an email.

Hickey said a Hercules aircraft, a Cormorant chopper and a Provincial Airlines craft were deployed Wednesday to hunt the h2o southbound of Port aux Basques.

Weather making hunt 'increasingly difficult'

As of Thursday, Hickey said 1 Hercules craft remains connected scene, arsenic good arsenic CCGS La Poile Bay.

Another seashore defender ship, the Cape Roger, volition retrace the ferry's way betwixt Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

"Weather is becoming a concern," Hickey wrote. "Although the oversea authorities remains calm astatine one meter, visibility is rapidly decreasing and the ceiling continues to drop, making the hunt progressively difficult."

A spokesperson for Marine Atlantic, which operates the MV Blue Puttees ferry, declined comment.

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