December 9, 2017 — NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for two missing fishermen near Nantucket, announcing tonight they searched a 1,605 square-nautical-mile area but could not find the men.
A state police dive team may have also discovered the sunken boat, the Misty Blue, department spokesman Dave Procopio said.
“Through the use of … sonar search teams located a large object underwater believed to be the vessel,” Procopio said in a statement.
“Weather and ocean conditions prevented troopers from diving onto the target. Conditions tomorrow are expected to be similar and will preclude diving. The current plan is for State Police divers to return to that area on Thursday and dive onto the target detected by sonar to confirm whether it is the vessel and assist further as needed,” he added.
Less than one month before the Misty Blue sank in the frigid waters of the Atlantic, a Fairhaven fisherman filed a $1.5 million lawsuit charging he was seriously injured in September as a result of the captain and crew’s negligence and the commercial vessel’s “unseaworthiness.”
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