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Article: Fishing boat sinks off NJ; 2 dead, 4 missing
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- March 25, 2009
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As fears mounted that the death toll would rise to six, rescuers continued to search the ocean darkness Tuesday night for the last four crew members of a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in an accident expected to rank among the worst commercial fishing disasters in the nation's history.
The Lady Mary, a 71-foot scallop boat based at Cape May in southern New Jersey and owned by a North Carolina man, sank at about 5 a.m. with seven people aboard about 75 miles off the coast.
Only one survivor had been found as of Tuesday night; two of the three crew members plucked from the icy water by a Coast Guard helicopter died.
Two helicopters, an airplane and two boats ...