BOSTON — February 22, 2013 — U.S. Coast Guard rescue crews assisted five people aboard a fishing vessel out of New Bedford when the vessel began sinking after taking on water approximately 100 miles southeast of Nantucket Thursday afternoon.
According to the Coast Guard, watchstanders from the Sector Southeastern New England Command Center received a distress call from the 80-foot fishing vessel Megan-Marie at approximately 6:40 p.m., Wednesday.
The Megan-Marie, owned by a Daniel Farnham of Montauk, N.Y., had all the required safety gear as well as dewatering pumps, but the pumps were not keeping up with the flooding. A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter crew and an HC-144 Ocean Sentry crew, a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City C-130 Hercules crew, the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca and the Coast Guard Cutter Flying Fish were launched to assist.
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