One fisherman found, another still missing

Published 11:18 am Wednesday, March 9, 2011

By Mike Voss

One fisherman remains missing, but a second fisherman was found alive in the Pamlico Sound on Wednesday morning.
Matt Jamison, 20, was found alive near Maw Point in Pamlico County about 7 a.m., according to the Coast Guard. The Harvest Time, the 27-foot-long boat that Jamison and William Foster, 22 were in also was found, but it had capsized.
The Beaufort County fishermen were reported missing about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday by Foster’s father when they did not appear at Wright’s Creek on the Pungo River as expected, according to Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Kevin Sullivan. The two fisherman had been oystering. A Coast Guard helicopter, with its crew using night-vision goggles, searched for them overnight Tuesday. A Coast Guard boat from Coast Guard Station Hobucken, members of the Bath Volunteer Fire Department and several private boats assisted in the search.
“We relaunched this morning for a search at sunrise,” Sullivan said.
A private, “Good Samaritan” boat found Jamison sitting on the hull of the capsized boat, Sullivan said. Jamison was found “cold, but in reasonably good condition,” Sullivan said. Jamison was transported to a hospital. Sullivan was not sure to which hospital Jamison was taken.
“We are currently still searching for William Foster,” Sullivan said Wednesday morning.
The rescue helicopter Pedro with Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and private boats are assisting in the search for Foster.
Dive teams were being called in to inspect the capsized boat, Sullivan added.
Overnight, the Coast Guard searched two separate areas, one near the Neuse River junction buoy, near the western end of the Pamlico Sound, Neuse River and Bay River converge. It was there the two fishermen were last seen (about 1 p.m.)  and heard from (about 2 p.m.), according to Sullivan. The other area searched was Wright’s Creek on the Pungo River, where the fishermen’s boat, the Harvest Time, is based.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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