N.B. RCMP continue search for missing ice sailor in Shediac Bay area

Search teams continued to look for a missing ice sailor in the Shediac Bay, N.B., area Thursday morning.

Search teams continued to look for a missing ice sailor in the Shediac Bay, N.B., area Thursday morning.

According to Lt.-Cmdr. Len Hickey with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, Daniel Robichaud, a 64-year-old from Grand-Digue, N.B., went missing while ice sailing Wednesday afternoon.

Danny Desroches, chief for the Beausoleil Fire Department, said the man left after lunch and his girlfriend called the RCMP when she couldn’t find him.

Crews responded to the call around 5:30 p.m. and searched until 11 p.m. Wednesday.

The RCMP continued to search the Shediac Bay and Shediac Island area Thursday morning. A helicopter could be seen circling the island and a snowmobile was on the ice.

Desroches told CTV News Atlantic the missing man is an experienced ice sailor who went into the Shediac Bay on a regular basis.