Aerial search begins for missing fishermen

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

A pri­vate he­li­copter has joined the search in To­ba­go for two fish­er­men who went miss­ing on Fri­day. Rel­a­tives said David McLean, 26, of Low­lands and Buc­coo res­i­dent Kester Alexan­der left on a fish­ing ex­pe­di­tion aboard Preda­tor, a 24-foot pirogue with Yama­ha en­gines, reg­is­tra­tion TFT 2490, on Fri­day morn­ing. They were ex­pect­ed back at 5 pm the same day, but have not been seen since.

As night fell and both men were un­able to be con­tact­ed, con­cerned rel­a­tives con­tact­ed au­thor­i­ties and pro­vid­ed the last GPS lo­ca­tion of the ves­sel, which showed it in wa­ters south­west of To­ba­go.