GLOUCESTER, MA (March 14, 2009) – A Gloucester diver and pair of draggermen have had most unusual marine mammal encounters at sea in recent years.
Thankfully, guys named Salvi, "Naz" and "Joe Stoga" got through these meetings unscathed — as did the animals involved.
Capt. Joe "Joe Stoga" Scola and Ignazzio "Naz" Sanfilippo were dragging for greysole about a dozen miles off Gloucester one October evening of 1994 aboard Scola’s 50-foot stern trawler Dolores Louise.
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