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Video: Lone fisherman who survived shipwreck off Martha’s Vineyard recalls harrowing ordeal
Ernesto Garcia, 50, was aboard the F/V Leonardo — a 56-foot scallop boat — that capsized and sank on Sunday afternoon as nine-foot swells and gusty winds battered the area. He was later rescued by a helicopter crew. “We caught a rogue sea,” Garcia told 7’s Jonathan Hall. “A wave came across in the opposite direction in which the waves were running.” Video, >click to watch< 20:56
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“We’re commercial fisherman. Nobody wears em,” Lone survivor of Bay Area fishing boat accident speaks out
Phillip Sanchez said sheer determination got him through this ordeal, but the loss of his fishing buddies on Bodega Bay is almost too much to bare. Garcia says life vests weren’t a big deal to her husband Sam who retired from commercial fishing, but still owned a boat and liked to go out with friends. The beginning of recreational crab season was too good to pass up. Video, Read the rest here 07:47
