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Search continues for car that plunged off Englishtown ferry

The Englishtown Ferry is located about 60 kilometres northwest of Sydney. Google Maps/GlobalNews.ca screen grab

ENGLISHTOWN, N.S. – Divers were getting back in the waters of a Cape Breton bay today to search for a car and its driver after it plunged off a ferry.

RCMP say the divers planned to resume their search of St. Anns Bay using side scan sonar.

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The device emits pulses to create an image of the sea floor.

Divers were hampered by fast-moving waters Tuesday as they looked for the car that drove onto the ferry Monday evening and off the end of an upright ramp.

Police say it’s unclear how many people were in the car because it was dark at the time and workers aboard the provincially run ferry could not see inside.

The cable ferry links the small communities of Englishtown and Jersey Cove.

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