Canadian search and rescue officials have found a charter fishing boat that went missing last week off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island but not the four men who had been on board.
Gerald Pash, spokesman for the Victoria Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, said Saturday that a passing sport fisherman spotted the boat shortly after 1 p.m., six nautical miles offshore in Brooks Bay north of Brooks Peninsula, about 25 miles south of Winter Harbor.
Pash said a Cormorant Helicopter from 442 Search and Rescue Squadron responded and the 19-foot vessel was inspected by search and rescue technicians. The boat had overturned, and there was no sign of the four men who had been aboard when the boat departed Winter Harbor on Monday.
Missing are Peter Idlewine, 53, of Brush Prairie; Gary Evans, 54, of Vancouver; and Tony Evans, 52, of Canby, Ore. Also missing is their local fishing guide, Kevin Sturgess, 36.
