While searching for son, father answers call to rescue four

EVEN as he continues to grapple with the uncertainty surrounding his son’s disappearance at sea almost four weeks ago, a father answered a distress call on Thursday and rescued four people whose vessel had become disabled about 18 to 20 miles south of Tobago.

Speaking to the Express yesterday, David Mc Lean Snr said he had received no confirmed information about whether his son, David Mc Lean Jnr, was still alive since he disappeared on October 9. On that day, Mc Lean Jnr, 27, and Kester Alexander, 52, left Scarborough, Tobago, aboard a 24-foot pirogue named Predator.

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When the men failed to return, relatives became concerned and contacted the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard. Family members also conducted searches of their own, but neither man was found.