January 24, 2020 — The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating two fatal fishing accidents in a week off the U.S. East Coast – a sinking that claimed the lives of two fishermen off Maine and a man-overboard resulting in loss of life off Nantucket
Two fishermen were found dead in the water off the coast of Portland, Maine on Thursday after the Coast Guard responded to a distress signal from the fishing boat Hayley Ann.
At about 1230 hours on Thursday, the USCG received an EPIRB distress signal from the Hayley Ann. Two helicopters from Air Station Cape Cod and one fixed-wing aircraft responded to the scene at a position about 45 miles off the coast of Portland. At about 1350 hours, they spotted an empty life raft and two bodies face-down in the water, according to local media.