CHETICAMP, N.S. – Four fishermen in Cape Breton were rescued after their boat began taking on water and sank near Cheticamp.
The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax says it received a distress call from the crew of the Lady Angele at about 2:40 p.m. Thursday indicating the vessel was about 15 kilometres southwest of Cheticamp and was flooding.
Capt. Doug Kierstead, a spokesman with the centre, says a Canadian Coast Guard cutter and an auxiliary vessel were dispatched to the scene.
A Cormorant helicopter from 14 Wing Greenwood was also dispatched as a precaution, but Kierstead says it wasn’t needed.
The captain and crew were rescued in a life-raft less than an hour after the distress call was put out.
No one was injured, but the boat sank shortly after rescue crews arrived.
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