Overview
- A 30-foot center-console fishing boat carrying three men and a dog was reported in distress just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday off Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea.
- Rescue crews located a 67-year-old man who was taken to Beverly Hospital and later pronounced dead.
- A 65-year-old man was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital and remains in critical condition while a 37-year-old is still missing and being sought by search teams.
- Responding units include Coast Guard surface and air assets, five municipal harbormasters, state police, local police and a dive team, reflecting a multi-agency search effort.
- Officials have not released the victims’ names and say the investigation is ongoing with no definitive determination yet on whether the boat struck rocks or suffered another failure.