Kumara Chandra, Additional Superintendent of Police, said on Monday that the Navy had started searching the area near Sindhudurg in Maharashtra through sonar technology to check if Suvarna Tribhuja had sunk.
Mr. Chandra told The Hindu the Navy had sent an email to this effect to the district police.
Meanwhile, the two teams of district police, along with fishermen from Malpe, which went to Goa and Maharashtra, and Kerala to search for the missing fishermen, a few days back, have drawn a blank.
Mr. Kundar said that about 350 boats had left from Malpe to Maharashtra since Saturday to search for the missing boat while also doing fishing.
“Another 200 boats will leave Malpe for Maharashtra today to search for it. The police and navy are doing their search work, we are searching on our own,” he said.
Meanwhile, M. Manjunath Naik, Principal Secretary, Department of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, held a meeting with the representatives of the Malpe Fishermen’s Association here on Monday and explained the steps taken by the government to trace the missing boat. “He told us that the government had approached the ISRO and other departments concerned for the search operations,” Mr. Kundar said.