Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City HC-130 Hercules aircraft file photo.
Portsmouth, Va. — The Coast Guard is searching for a man who entered the water after he reportedly fell from the 541-foot refrigerated cargo ship, Baltic Klipper, approximately 1,200 miles northeast of Bermuda, Saturday morning.
Watchstanders from the Coast Guard Fifth District Command Center received a call from Portugal Maritime Rescue Coordination Center Ponta Delgada at approximately 12 a.m., notifying them that a man entered the water from the ship.
Fifth District Command Center watchstanders issued an Enhanced Group Call message requesting mariners to keep a lookout for the person in the water.
The Coast Guard is searching with an aircrew aboard a HC-130 Hercules aircraft from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City and requesting the assistance of nearby vessels to search via the Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of the man are asked to contact the fifth district command center at (757) 398-6390.
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