The search for a missing fisherman has been suspended four days after a boat capsized off the Central Queensland coast. 7NEWS
“They’ve lost one of their sons. It’s just a terrible time.”He had been on the boat with his brother and a friend.Scott Jasperse, 41, has been identified as the missing fisherman off central Queensland.It took police vessels between five and six hours to reach the area but visibility was poor.
A rescue helicopter spotted one of the men clinging to the hull of an overturned vessel on Thursday night before losing sight of him. At 5.55am on Friday, a jet spotted one man and he was rescued before being airlifted to Mackay Base Hospital, Queensland Police said.Rescuers winch a fisherman from Creal Reef, off Mackay.Godbold said health experts informed police Jasperse could only have survived up to two days at sea.
The advice sparked the decision to suspend “all search and rescue at this stage”, the inspector said.“We have not given up hope, mate, just hang in there,” the man wrote on social media.Your cookie settings are preventing this third party content from displaying.
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