Coast guard concludes probe of sunken fishing boat
NEWBURYPORT (AP) -- The Coast Guard says the fishing boat Lady Luck, which sank last year off the Maine coast with the loss of two lives, suffered a rapid loss of stability that caused it to capsize.
Investigators said Wednesday that while they may never really know what happened, evidence suggests that the trawler went down because of water on the decks, flooding in a storage hatch, or a combination of both. The ship went down so fast the crew was unable to call for help.
The vessel, out of Newburyport, was located about 30 miles southeast of Portland and sank to a depth of 530 feet. The Coast Guard used a remote-control submersible to examine the wreckage.
Neither of the two crew members, Sean Cone of North Andover, Mass., and Dan Miller of North Hampton, N.H., was ever found.
Full details of the Coast Guard report will be published in tomorrow's Daily News.
