CAPE MAY— An unofficial source connected to litigation involving the sinking of the fishing vessel Lady Mary told the Herald when a Marine Board of Investigation hearing resumes in three to four weeks, it will be moved from Cape May to either Philadelphia or North Carolina.
The source said the site of the hearing would be moved to accommodate a greater percentage of those attending the proceedings.
Chief Petty Officer Chris McLoughlin of Coast Guard Public Affairs, Atlantic City could not confirm that information.
The Lady Mary sank about 65 east of Cape May March 24 with six casualties.
The Lady Mary was uninsured, the source also told the Herald.
Divers examining the Lady Mary, sitting on the ocean bottom in about 200 feet of water, found a basketball size hole above waterline that may have come from bracket that held a stern ramp used to lower the boat’s scallop dredge into the water, the source told the Herald.
Attorney Stevenson Lee Weeks,representing the family of the deceased owner of the Lady Mary,presented the theory to reporters during the initial hearings that the Lady Mary sank after its gear became entangled either with another vessel or an obstruction.
Another theory advanced is a collision with the freighter Cap Beatrice that was less than a mile from the Lady Mary at the time of the sinking.
