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@redheadpei My prayers for the young man's family. Things can happen in the blink of an eye. Years ago I lost a friend at sea, they were anchored way offshore and no one knows how he fell overboard It was at night and one of the crew heard his scream and threw a buoy to him, they were in the gulf stream where the tide runs fast, The captain cut the anchor line and went for the buoy but he was gone. They think a shark got him because the sharks will lay under their boat at night when they gut the fish. He had a wife and a 2-year-old son.
It’s so sad especially leaving small children. 😢 It seems every year there is a tragedy connected to the lobster fishing. Last year a captain set his boat on cruise while working onboard and hit another lobster boat that had a couple tourists on it. One man was killed in front of his daughter.
Each time there is a tragedy the rules tighten up to make sure each boat does not carry anyone except the crew, is equipped with a horn, etc. Now after the last fatal drowning there will be more rules on life jackets but the Lobster fishermen I know say they can’t work with them on.
@redheadpei I agree with the lobster fisherman, you will make more mistakes wearing a life jacket and trying to work. It is the same here, every time there is a tragedy there will be more rules. Fishermen can not take more rules, the things they say we need on the boat are not cheap, the raft is around a grand the epurp is between 2 and 3 grand life jackets are cheap enough but then you have to have these fancy little lights on them, you have to have all these stupid plagues that say things like no drugs allowed on the boat, no throwing trash and I forget what the other 2 said, the plagues are like 40 bucks each, it is things that everyone knows but you have to have the damn plague. That is just a few of the things they say we need. I agree with some of them but the others is just BS.