The Coast Guard has reiterated its recommendation that more commercial fishing boats should be subject to regulations intended to prevent them from capsizing and sinking, a spokesman said today.
The recommendation was part of a report on the investigation into the sinking of the Costa & Corvo, which caused the death of Captain Antonio Mesquita of New Bedford on Nov. 13., 2008.
In the report, investigators recommended that stability requirements for commercial fishing boats should be applied to boats 50 feet or greater in length. Currently, the requirements only apply to boats 79 feet long or longer. The Costa & Corvo, which investigators determined had capsized, was only 71 feet long.
Read the complete story at The Boston Globe.