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Wreckage sighted of missing yacht

Tuesday 01 August 2000 00:00 BST
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Search teams looking for a missing yacht with three Cambridge University students on board said today they had spotted more wreckage.

Search teams looking for a missing yacht with three Cambridge University students on board said today they had spotted more wreckage.

A lifeboat, the Hook of Holland, has been sent from a Dutch port to investigate the sighting in the North Sea.

A spokesman from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said there was still no definite link between the wreckage and the missing yacht Tuila.

"This area is a very busy shipping lane and there can be all sorts of garbage in the water, but it would be unfair not to investigate all sightings," he said

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