Air force searchers comb Nunavut waters near Pang for overdue hunters
Hercules, Cormorant crews sent to Pangnirtung area, but hunters return home
Since Nov. 24, air force searchers have been seeking two overdue hunters near Pangnirtung who had gone hunting around the Sanigut Islands.
Airborne searchers with the Royal Canadian Air Force departed from two locations in southern Canada Nov. 24 to search near Pangnirtung for two overdue hunters, but the two boaters managed to make it home on their own.
The two hunters, travelling in a 22-foot aluminum boat, left Pangnirtung on the morning of Nov. 23 but did not return that afternoon, when they were due back.
The boaters were hunting around the Sanigut Islands, about 14 nautical miles from Pangnirtung.
The RCAF said they sent searchers aboard a CC-130 Hercules aircraft from 413 squadron in Greenwood, N.S. and a Cormorant helicopter crew out of Gander, Nfld.
On the morning of Nov. 25, CBC news reported the two hunters arrived home Nov. 24, shortly after the aircraft arrived.
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