A search is under way for a missing maintenance worker aboard a tug at the port of Norfolk, Virginia.
Derrick Fluellen, 33, was working aboard the anchor handler Atlantic Oceanic at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal when he disappeared Saturday afternoon. He was a member of a contracted maintenance crew and was stationed on fire watch, Coast Guard Sector Virginia told local media.
The Coast Guard is operating on the assumption that Fluellen fell over the side, and it has launched a search and rescue operation accordingly. Sector Virginia dispatched one helicopter and one response boat, accompanied by first responders from local agencies, and is covering a broad swath of the region. Sonar and ROV search assets have also been deployed at the scene…