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On Friday morning the U.S. Coast Guard began searching for a person in the water and believed to be somewhere between Nomans Island, which is south of Martha’s Vineyard, and New Bedford.
In a Twitter post, U.S. Coast Guard Northeast confirmed that early this morning they responded to a confirmed PIW on a track line between Nomans Island and New Bedford. Coast Guard STA Menemsha, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, and the Buzzards Bay Task Force are engaged in the search.
The missing person was on a fishing boat called the “Susan Rose” out of Point Judith, last seen around midnight heading back toward New Bedford. Those aboard noticed a fisherman was not on board around 1:30 a.m. It’s presumed that the person went overboard.
