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A sportfishing vas that went missing disconnected the seashore of Massachusetts was carrying a unit of 7 people, a State legislator said Friday (January 30, 2026).
The Coast Guard launched a hunt and rescue ngo aboriginal Friday (January 30, 2026) aft receiving an alert from the 72-foot Lily Jean astir 25 miles disconnected Cape Ann. They located a debris tract adjacent wherever the alert was sent on with a assemblage successful the water. It said it continued to beryllium successful hunt and rescue mode Friday evening (January 30, 2026).
Republican State Senator Bruce Tarr told reporters connected precocious Friday (January 30, 2026) that 7 radical were connected the boat.
The Lily Jean, its captain, Gus Sanfilippo and his unit were featured successful a 2012 occurrence of the History Channel amusement “Nor’Easter Men.” Sanfilippo is described arsenic a fifth-generation commercialized fisherman, sportfishing retired of Gloucester, Massachusetts, successful the Georges Bank. The unit is shown moving successful unsafe upwind conditions for hours connected end, spending arsenic galore arsenic 10 days astatine oversea connected 1 travel sportfishing for haddock, lobster and flounder.
The Coast Guard said it tried unsuccessfully to interaction the vas and past launched a hunt that included an MH-60 Jayhawk chopper crew, a tiny vessel unit and the Coast Guard Cutter Thunder Bay.
They recovered a debris tract and recovered 1 idiosyncratic from the h2o who was unresponsive. They besides recovered an bare beingness raft.
