A fishing boat captain from Cape Cod died while trying to rescue one of his crewmen who fell overboard off the coast of Nantucket early this morning, the Coast Guard said.
Captain John Zuzick, 53, of Harwich put on a survival suit and dove into the chilly water shortly before 5 a.m. after the crewman working on deck fell.
The crewman, Bill Silva, fell while trying to untangle some line that was caught in a propeller of the Silver Fox, a 60-foot clam dredge. The fouled line had disabled the vessel, and it had gone adrift. The two men were unable to make it back on board.
Zuzick’s wife told the Cape Cod Times that her husband had suffered a heart attack. The Times reported that Silva, who was not wearing any survival gear, survived by clinging to Zuzick for more than 30 minutes.
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