The Star-Ledger has published a five-chapter series following a months-long investigation of the March 2009 sinking of the Lady Mary that left six dead and spared just one crew member.
The Cape May-based scallop boat sank 66 miles off the coast of Cape May in 211 feet of water. There is speculation that the Lady Mary may have been swamped in rough seas or hit by a container ship passing through the busy scallop fishing grounds known as the Elephant Trunk.
For seven months, reporters Amy Ellis Nutt and Andre Malok made dozens of trips, to Cape May, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and North Carolina. Those interviewed included: the co-owner of the Lady Mary; the boat’s sole survivor; family members and friends of the six men who died in the sinking; scallop fishermen, especially those working within six miles of the Lady Mary the night she disappeared; the divers who explored the sunken wreck; officials from the Coast Guard and the rescue crew who saved José Arias; and the dock manager for Hamburg Sud, the shipping company that leases the container ship Cap Beatrice, the ship some say may have hit the Lady Mary.
Click here to read the full series, courtesy of The Star-Ledger.
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