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Captain of Local Fishing Boat Dies in Attempt to Rescue Crewman

 

By Herald Staff

NANTUCKET, MA- The captain of the 60-foot clam dredge Silver Fox was killed yesterday while attempting to rescue a crew-member Bill Silva who went overboard.
According to the Boston Globe John Zuzick, 53, of Harwich, MA donned a survival suit and dove into the chilly sea. He held on to the crewman and reassured him, telling him everything would be all right.
In the end, the crewman would survive, rescued by the Coast Guard. But Zuzick, the rescuer, would not make it.
The accident happened at about 5 a.m. about 2 miles east of Sankaty Head Light, on the east coast of Nantucket.
Velna Zuzick, the captain’s wife told the Globe the doctor at the hospital told her that her husband may have suffered a heart attack.
Velna Zuzick said that Silva, the crewmember her husband saved, was a young man in his late teens or early 20s.

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