Sunken Car Search near Cape Breton Ferry Temporarily Suspended

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Police has suspended the search for the car that drove off the Englishtown ferry into St. Anns Bay in Cape Breton, for the time being, due to thick ice moving into the bay. Sgt. Al LeBlanc alleged that divers have decided not to continue the search on Thursday due to safety concerns associated with the ice blocking St. Anns Bay. Prior to the arrival of ice, divers had intended to install side-scan sonar again to study the fast-flowing tidal waters. LeBlanc pointed out that fishermen in the Englishtown area are hinting that the ice may not even clear out for even several days as it moved in overnight.

The suspected vehicle drove onto the ferry on Monday evening and went off on an upright ramp, plunging into the water. It has been almost two days to the incident, and so far the police has no idea of any passenger or the driver in the car. However, Police is aware that the small car was carried along by a powerful current for almost 200 metres, after which it eventually disappeared under the water. It was added that all happened so fast that witnesses gave police little to go on.

The police is now planning to launch a bulletin to all police agencies across the country, which Staff Sgt. Craig Yorke doubts will work either, because, he said “with all the media around this incident, and I believe it has gone national, so with other provinces such as New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, you would think if somebody is missing, they would call.”

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