The search for the captain of HMS Bounty is in its fourth day, after the ship sank off the U.S. coast during Hurricane Sandy.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert said Thursday morning a cutter and a C-130 aircraft are still looking for 63-year-old Robin Walbridge.
The tall ship went down in heavy seas off the Carolinas Monday morning and its crew spent the morning in violent waters after abandoning the sinking ship.
Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard eventually plucked 14 people from the Atlantic Ocean and spent much of Monday searching for two missing crew members.
One of the missing crew members, 42-year-old Claudene Christian, was found unresponsive in the water Monday evening. She was taken to hospital in Elizabeth City, where she was later pronounced dead.
Walbridge has yet to be found.
Despite repeated weather warnings, HMS Bounty left Connecticut headed for Florida. On the way, it travelled into the path of Hurricane Sandy, off the coast of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.
The ship started taking on water Sunday night and one of its generators failed. The crew abandoned ship in two lifeboats early Monday, and a few hours later it sank.
The replica HMS Bounty was built in Lunenburg in 1960 for the 1962 movie, Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando.
It returned to the big screen and to the Maritimes many times since then.
With files from The Associated Press
