NewsOctober 2, 2001
Search called off for American rower
LONDON -- British and Irish rescuers called off a search late Monday for an American doctor who disappeared while rowing across the Atlantic. Nenad Bilic, 62, of Chicago, a retired cardiologist, set off on his 21-foot boat from Cape Cod, Mass., on May 11, heading for Bantry Bay on the southwest coast of the Irish Republic...
The Associated Press
LONDON -- British and Irish rescuers called off a search late Monday for an American doctor who disappeared while rowing across the Atlantic.
Nenad Bilic, 62, of Chicago, a retired cardiologist, set off on his 21-foot boat from Cape Cod, Mass., on May 11, heading for Bantry Bay on the southwest coast of the Irish Republic.
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Late Sunday night, Bilic's emergency beacon was activated, indicating that he was 230 miles west of Ireland, according to the Coastguard in Falmouth, England.
A Royal Air Force rescue helicopter and two Royal Air Force Nimrod search planes were scrambled to search for the rower, but only found the beacon.
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