Tag Archives: F/V Fine Tuna

Commercial fishing boat runs aground in Oregon Inlet

FV-Fine-Tuna-in-Oregon-InletA commercial fishing trawler from Wanchese ran aground Monday morning just east of the Bonner Bridge in Oregon Inlet. Pictures from eyewitnesses show the F/V Fine Tuna was hard aground and side too the Bodie Island shoal, which juts out into Oregon Inlet, sometime before 10 a.m. Read the rest here 09:16

New clues but no closure in mystery of missing Pompano Beach Fisherman Peter Stilwell

peter stillwellLate on a January afternoon last year, 400 miles out in the Atlantic, Peter Stilwell remained by himself on the aft deck of the Fine Tuna fishing boat. Seas were rolling but not stormy. The captain and two crewmen were in the boat’s pilothouse, talking about fishing. Then the unexplained happened: Stilwell vanished. sunsentinal.com  Read more here  07:05

Fishing was his life…and his death. Fisherman Peter Stilwell, Pompano Beach, Fla  Read more here  January 29, 2013