An excerpt of the story from the New York Times:
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- A daughter of hockey great Bob Gainey was still missing Monday after she was washed overboard in the Atlantic during a storm while working on a sailing ship bound for the Caribbean.
A Canadian C-130 Hercules has joined the search for Laura Gainey, who was thrown from the 180-foot boat Friday night and was not wearing a lifejacket. The search aircraft relieved an American plane that had been scouring the ocean for the 25-year-old daughter of the Montreal Canadiens' general manager.
Matthew Brooks, a civilian search and rescue specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard, said there was still no sign of her.
She was aboard the Picton Castle, a training vessel, when a wave tossed her into the sea about 475 miles southeast of Cape Cod, Mass. The crew dropped radar deflectors and lighted buoys in the water when they realized she was missing.
Brooks said U.S. air rescuers used infrared night-vision goggles to search the dark waters late Sunday. American and Canadian search aircraft later dropped data buoys in the area.
''They talk to us via satellite, and they send us positions on the hour,'' Brooks said. ''This is the best way to tell us how the water is moving.''
Gainey is a good swimmer and was wearing warm protective clothing. She has been in the water almost three days, and the U.S. Coast Guard says life-threatening hypothermia ordinarily sets in after 36 hours.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- A daughter of hockey great Bob Gainey was still missing Monday after she was washed overboard in the Atlantic during a storm while working on a sailing ship bound for the Caribbean.
A Canadian C-130 Hercules has joined the search for Laura Gainey, who was thrown from the 180-foot boat Friday night and was not wearing a lifejacket. The search aircraft relieved an American plane that had been scouring the ocean for the 25-year-old daughter of the Montreal Canadiens' general manager.
Matthew Brooks, a civilian search and rescue specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard, said there was still no sign of her.
She was aboard the Picton Castle, a training vessel, when a wave tossed her into the sea about 475 miles southeast of Cape Cod, Mass. The crew dropped radar deflectors and lighted buoys in the water when they realized she was missing.
Brooks said U.S. air rescuers used infrared night-vision goggles to search the dark waters late Sunday. American and Canadian search aircraft later dropped data buoys in the area.
''They talk to us via satellite, and they send us positions on the hour,'' Brooks said. ''This is the best way to tell us how the water is moving.''
Gainey is a good swimmer and was wearing warm protective clothing. She has been in the water almost three days, and the U.S. Coast Guard says life-threatening hypothermia ordinarily sets in after 36 hours.