Six Crew Missing Off Nova Scotia Coast After Scallop Vessel Goes Down in Bay of Fundy

A man looks out onto the Bay of Fundy in Hillsburn, N.S. in an area where empty life-rafts from a scallop fishing vessel where reported on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Search and rescue aircraft, along with Canadian Coast Guard boats have been dispatched as well as ground search and rescue personnel. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

DIGBY—Six crew are missing after a scallop vessel sank off the coast of southwestern Nova Scotia early Tuesday in two-metre seas and powerful winds.

Lt.-Cmdr. Brian Owens of the search and rescue co-ordination centre in Halifax says an emergency signal was received at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday from the boat off Delaps Cove, N.S., about 40 kilometres northeast of Digby.