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Article: Seven-day endeavor.(News Beat)
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- Coast Guard Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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The prayers of three fishermen were answered with their rescue in Shinnecock Inlet, N.Y., Jan. 3 after their ship Hail Mary II capsized in rough seas. Seven days later, the Hail Mary II herself was rescued.
As Capt. John Windels and his crew of Richard Gardiner and Jerzy Boucpoulki were returning to port with a successful haul of 30,000 pounds of squid, the Hail Mary II capsized in heavy weather when one outrigger retracted before the other and destabilized the 72-foot steel dragger. The crew of a nearby vessel, the Cindi Sea, rescued Boucpoulki, while a Sea Tow operator rescued Windels and Gardiner from atop the hull of the overturned vessel.
With the ...