Four mariners were rescued by crews from U.S. Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light and good Samaritans on Feb. 27 after their commercial fishing vessel, Monica, became disabled roughly 85 miles off the Jersey coast.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New York received the distress call and contacted Sector Delaware Bay command center around 8:30 a.m. to relay an individual aboard the fishing vessel had sent a distress hail, saying the crew was having transmission issues offshore and needed help…
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