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Massachusetts<\/a> Gov. Maura Healey has asked the U.S. Navy to help with the investigation into the sinking of a fishing vessel earlier this year that left seven crew members dead, the Navy confirmed to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Healey and State Sen. Bruce Tarr sent a letter to the Secretary of the Navy this week asking for help retrieving a video recorder and a hard drive from the wreck of the Lily Jean in January, which lies more than 300 feet down in the Atlantic about 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, that could determine the cause of the sinking, WFXT-TV reported.<\/p>\n

“The Office of the Secretary of the Navy is in receipt of the correspondence,” a spokesperson from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy told Fox News Digital on Saturday. “A response is being prepared and will be transmitted directly to the Governor’s office.”<\/p>\n

The governor also hopes to retrieve the remaining six bodies from the 72-foot boat, which sank on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n

COAST GUARD IDENTIFIES 7 VICTIMS ON BOARD GLOUCESTER COMMERCIAL FISHING BOAT THAT SANK OFF MASSACHUSETTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The body of Lily Jean Captain Accursio\u00a0“Gus”\u00a0Sanfilippo is the only one that has been recovered.<\/p>\n

The six others who died in the sinking include crew member Paul Beal Jr.; crew member John\u00a0Rousanidis; crew member Freeman Short; crew member Sean\u00a0Therrien; and NOAA\u00a0fisheries\u00a0observer Jada Samitt.<\/p>\n

“What caused it is not as important as retrieving the crew,” Donna Short, the mother of Freeman Short, a 31-year-old who was planning a wedding, told WFXT.<\/p>\n

She said she spoke to him a few days before he went out on the doomed trip.<\/p>\n

“He told me, \u2018Hey mom, you know I\u2019m going to be going,\u2019 and I told him I loved him,” she said, adding that recovering his body is a “matter of laying him to rest where his legacy began next to both of his grandfathers, who are veterans<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

DESPERATE SEARCH FOR TWO MEN AS FISHING BOAT FOUND EMPTY 70 MILES OFF FLORIDA COAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Coast Guard<\/a> are involved in an ongoing investigation into the sinking.<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard\u2019s search for the missing crew members was suspended on Jan. 31, a day after the sinking, and the NTSB said it doesn\u2019t do recoveries, according to WFXT.<\/p>\n

When the Lily Jean sank, Coast Guard watchstanders\u00a0received an emergency position indicating a radio beacon\u00a0(EPIRB) alert at about 6:50 a.m. registered to the vessel.<\/p>\n

USCG crews\u00a0attempted\u00a0to contact the boat, and after getting no response, issued an urgent marine information broadcast (UMIB), according to officials.<\/p>\n

Multiple\u00a0aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047\u00a0square\u00a0miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with the captain\u2019s body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.<\/p>\n

Search and rescue mission<\/a> coordinators, on-scene commanders and the Coast Guard\u00a0determined\u00a0on Jan. 31 all reasonable search efforts for the missing crew members had been exhausted.<\/p>\n

“The purpose of a Coast Guard investigation is to\u00a0identify\u00a0measures that can improve the safety of life and property at sea, not to assign civil or criminal blame,” the Coast Guard wrote in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to Healey\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/massachusetts-governor-asks-us-navy-help-retrieve-bodies-evidence-sunken-fishing-vessel <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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