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YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The search for a Canadian fishing captain missing off the western coast of Nova Scotia was called off Friday two days after his ship sank, officials said.
David Trask, 60, was last seen aboard the heavily listing Pubnico Explorer Wednesday morning by three crew members as they scrambled into a life raft where they waited for him, The (Halifax) Chronicle-Herald reported.
While they were rescued by a coast guard ship, sea and air searchers weren't able to find Trask, who was wearing a red immersion survival suit.
Aided by a U.S. Coast Guard jet, crews scoured more than 265 square miles of ocean Wednesday and Thursday about some 20 miles northwest of Yarmouth.
The 60-foot wooden-hull vessel had 40,000 pounds of fish in its holds and began taking on water in stormy seas. Crew members said the main pump failed and the secondary pump couldn't keep up with the leak.
Trask's ex-wife, Julie Boudreau, told the newspaper she considered him a hero.
"He was a great captain -- he saved his crew," she said.
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