Crewmember felt overboard in the sea – Search suspended

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Rescuers suspended the search for a 35-year-old man who fell overboard from a container vessel in the shipping channel between Staten Island and Brooklyn, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

An emergency call was received around 8:30 a.m. Saturday from the Northern Jaguar reporting that a crewmember had fallen overboard in heavy seas in the Ambrose Channel while arranging a ladder used for embarking and disembarking pilots, Coast Guard officials in New York City said.

A Coast Guard cutter based in Sandy...

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