The fishing vessel Patriot will be raised and examined for evidence of what caused it to sink during a winter fishing trip that took the lives of its two-man crew, the attorney for the estate of the owners said yesterday.
Joseph Abromovitz, attorney for Josie Russo — whose husband Matteo Russo, 39, and father John Orlando, 59, were killed in the Jan. 3 incident — said the Coast Guard was working with the salvage company on an engineering plan to raise the Patriot.
"Josie wants to raise the boat," said Abromovitz. "Suffice it to say she is the moving force,"
Abromovitz reiterated his belief that, even without unimpeded access to the boat, the estate — Josie Russo and her two sons, Salvatore Russo, 3, and an infant, John Matteo Russo, who was born this week — would be able to prove that a tug towing a barge brought down the Patriot.