Cheeki Rafiki search resumes, US Coast Guard hunts for four British sailors
| LONDON
The U.S. Coast Guard says it has resumed the聽search聽for four British sailors whose yacht apparently capsized in mid-Atlantic.
Spokeswoman Lisa Novak said Tuesday that the聽search聽for the crew of the聽Cheeki聽Rafiki聽had been re-started at the request of the British government.
The yacht got into trouble on Thursday about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Contact was lost after it diverted to the Azores.
The coast guard, Canadian aircraft and merchant vessels聽searched聽for the crew Friday and Saturday but called off efforts Sunday amid treacherous weather.
The suspension of the聽search聽caused an uproar in Britain. Almost 200,000 people have signed an online petition asking coast guards to keep looking, and families of the missing men appealed to British politicians for help.
