What It’s Like To Be The First Called When Someone Goes Missing In Maine Waters

TENANTS HARBOR, Maine — It’s around 10:30 p.m. A fierce blizzard has just blasted Maine’s coast and Marine Patrol Sgt. Matthew Talbot gets a call. A clammer is missing in Long Cove. It’s dark, it’s bitterly cold — below zero — and the wind is howling. But a family is panicked and it’s up to the Marine Patrol to either bring them the good news they hope to hear or, at the very least, devastating closure. Talbot dispatches Marine Patrol officers to the scene, picks up a 20-foot aluminum skiff in Rockland and navigates the snow drifts coming up over the fields along Route 131 to get to the remote search scene on the St.