Search­es by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard for three fish­er­men who were re­port­ed miss­ing at sea al­most two weeks ago have turned up emp­ty.

In a state­ment, the T&T Coast Guard said on Oc­to­ber 4, it re­ceived re­ports in­di­cat­ing that three per­sons left Moru­ga to go fish­ing on Sep­tem­ber 28 and had not re­turned.

While the Coast Guard com­menced a Search and Res­cue op­er­a­tion with the as­sis­tance of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Air Guard on the south coast of Trinidad and in the Gulf of Paria, the Coast Guard stat­ed there was no sight­ing of the miss­ing ves­sel or the men.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, the Coast Guard con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor the ar­eas un­der na­tion­al ju­ris­dic­tion and has been li­ais­ing with Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties on the sit­u­a­tion.

How­ev­er, the Coast Guard re­mind­ed ves­sel own­ers and sea­far­ers to en­sure that they pro­vide fam­i­ly mem­bers with ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion such as their in­tend­ed des­ti­na­tion, ves­sel reg­is­tra­tion num­ber, de­scrip­tion of ves­sel hull and en­gines, as well as sched­uled re­turn time as this in­for­ma­tion is vi­tal in cas­es of emer­gency and can aid the Coast Guard in suc­cess­ful­ly con­duct­ing Search and Res­cue op­er­a­tions.

Mean­while, the fam­i­lies of fish­er­men Vi­jayanand Too­phanie, Rishi See­lochan, and Zaid Al­ladin who left on a ves­sel with an­oth­er man Arnold Ramkhelawan al­so have no word about their where­abouts.

In a press re­lease two Sun­days ago, the Coast Guard re­port­ed that it was as­sist­ing in a search and res­cue op­er­a­tion in­volv­ing a ves­sel trans­port­ing 25 peo­ple from Trinidad and To­ba­go to the Delta Re­gion of Venezuela.

The re­lease stat­ed that ini­tial search­es by peo­ple in Venezuela led to the dis­cov­ery of four bod­ies and one sur­vivor.

How­ev­er, 20 peo­ple re­mained un­ac­count­ed for at that time.