BANGOR, Maine — Rescue crews from the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a mariner possibly missing off the Maine coast after receiving a distress call Sunday evening.
Coast Guard watchstanders at Sector New England received a distress call at 7:40 p.m. Sunday from a mariner aboard the vessel Whiskey Rose, who reported that he was taking on water, according to a news release from the Coast Guard First District in Boston.
The transmission was lost before the mariner could report his location to the Coast Guard and there has been no further contact with him.
A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Portsmouth, the Coast Guard cutter Tampa and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and HC-144 Ocean Sentry crew from Air Station Cape Cod have been dispatched to search for the possible distressed mariner.
A line of bearing was received when the transmission came in, placing the line across the Isle of Shoals, according to the news release.
The Coast Guard is requesting anyone with additional information about Whiskey Rose or its crew to please call the command center at 207-767-0302.