10 days after heading to sea, 3 fishermen are missing off Georgia coast amid wide search by Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard crews are scouring the Atlantic Ocean with boats and planes for the 31-foot fishing vessel Carol Ann. The boat’s captain, Dalton Conway, departed from Brunswick, Georgia, on Oct. 14 along with two crew members, Caleb Wilkinson and Tyler Barlow. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Three commercial fishermen are missing, 10 days after their boat headed to sea off the Georgia coast, prompting a search by the U.S. Coast Guard over thousands of square miles of ocean.

Crews were still scouring the waters with boats and planes for the 31-foot (9.45 meter) fishing vessel Carol Ann after searching more than 32,000 square miles (82,880 square kilometers) over several days, the Coast Guard said Tuesday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

The boat’s captain, Dalton Conway, departed the port city of Brunswick on Oct. 14 along with two crew members, Caleb Wilkinson and Tyler Barlow. The Coast Guard launched its search efforts Friday after the boat’s owner reported the fishermen hadn’t returned on schedule.