Qld: Search for missing fisherman to be expanded today

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2009
Qld: Search for missing fisherman to be expanded today

More aircraft will be thrown into today's search for a fisherman .. missing off the
south Queensland coast.

Extra fixed wing planes will take off at first light to join the search.

Yesterday .. two helicopters and five boats scoured the area off Moreton Island near Brisbane.

Police say the missing Brisbane man is fit and healthy .. and an experienced fisherman
.. but they don't know if he was wearing a life vest .. as life jackets were found on
Sunday, washed up on the shore of Moreton Island.

The body of the man's friend was found washed up on Moreton Island on Sunday .. after
their six-metre runabout was spotted by chance from the air .. on rocks near North Point
.. west of Cape Moreton.

AAP RTV bart/af/psm/

KEYWORD: SEARCH (BRISBANE)

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