Divers find body of crew member from fishing boat that sunk off NJ coast in March, killing 6
By APThursday, May 14, 2009
Crewman’s body recovered from sunken boat off NJ
CAPE MAY, N.J. — The Coast Guard says commercial divers have recovered the body of a crew member killed when a fishing boat sank off southern New Jersey in March.
Divers found the body of Tarzon “Bernie Mac” Smith around 8 p.m. Tuesday while searching the Lady Mary, a 71-foot fishing boat that went down about 75 miles east of Cape May.
They notified the Coast Guard, and the body was transported to a hospital in Somers Point for identification.
Smith was one of six crew members who died when the vessel sank March 24; one survived.
A joint Coast Guard-National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the sinking is ongoing.
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