Was mayday call a hoax that sparked Coast Guard search off Kennebunkport?

The Coast Guard Sector Northern New England command center received a radio distress call at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, from a man reporting that his boat capsized about 10 miles off the shore of Kennebunkport while he and three children were on board. The Coast Guard launched a search that lasted 22 hours and covered 1,523 square nautical miles and suspended that search, pending new information, when it turned up nothing by 8:20 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6. >click to read< 07:44

Coast Guard seeks information on missing boaters>click to read<  If you have any information about the distress call, please contact Sector Northern New England at 207-741-5478.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.