Two men who never returned from a weekend fishing trip out of Fort Pierce continued to go missing on Tuesday morning.

Vincent Faulkner and his brother-in-law Eric Ross left the Black Pearl boat ramp in downtown Fort Pierce about noon Sunday, Coast Guard officials there report. The search for them and the 14-foot boat they were on began after family contacted officials about 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

The search continues today, when the Coast Guard deployed a helicopter crew, a jet crew, a long-range aircraft crew and three boats to scour the seas.

As of last night the search area included 1,200 square miles. It is too early to tell how wide the area will be today, a spokesman said this morning.

Tags: boat, boating, fish, missing, search

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