QLD: Search for missing fisherman to continue

AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-1999
QLD: Search for missing fisherman to continue

BRISBANE, Feb 8 AAP - A search will continue today for a fisherman missing since Saturday
morning after a fishing boat with seven men on board was overturned by large waves.

Three of the party who spent 24 hours clinging to the upturned boat were rescued by a
helicopter yesterday after two other men swam for 14 hours, using rubbish bins for flotation,
to get help.

Another member of the group was found dead yesterday, his body washed up on Fraser Island.

He was believed to have suffered a heart attack.

Another man still was …