Tag Archives: off Petit Manan Island
Search suspended for missing Maine lobsterman who just graduated from high school
Authorities have suspended the search for a missing 18-year-old Down East Maine lobsterman whose unoccupied boat was found adrift. The Coast Guard said in a tweet Sunday afternoon that the search for Tylar Michaud, of Steuben, which involved vessels and aircraft, was suspended after 40 hours “pending further developments.” Michaud was reported missing at 5 p.m. Friday when he did not return from a day of hauling and setting his traps near Petit Manan Point, the state Department of Marine Resources said in a statement. Petit Manan Point is about 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of Mount Desert Island. >click to read< 17:47
Coast Guard finds empty boat used by missing 18-year-old lobsterman
The U.S. Coast Guard has found the empty boat of a missing 18-year-old lobster fisherman. Tylar Michaud of Steuben went out on his lobster boat Friday morning, but he has not been heard from since, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. He was heading out Friday morning to work on a line of traps near Petit Manan in Pigeon Hill Bay, east of Mount Desert Island. His empty lobster boat, “Top Gun,” was found in Jonesport Saturday night. >click to read< 08:14
Coast Guard searching for missing Maine lobsterman
Dense fog wrapping the Downeast coast is complicating the Coast Guard’s search Saturday for a young Maine lobsterman who didn’t return Friday evening from a day of checking and baiting his traps off Petit Manan Island. Tylar Michaud, 18, of Steuben, was working alone Friday, Coast Guard officials said. His boat, named Top Gun, was found Friday night near Jonesport with no one aboard. “There is an ongoing search, and multiple agencies are involved,” Chief Petty Officer Alexander Polyak said Saturday. “There’s no plan to suspend the search.” >click to read< 19:43
