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		<title>Patriot Stories -- GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories relating to the sinking of the Patriot and the aftermath]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Officers asleep as Patriot was lost]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273235837.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The delayed effort to unravel signals of the calamity that sank a Gloucester fishing boat in January was caused by analysis-paralysis in an inexperienced Coast Guard chain of command while two senior on-duty emergency response officers slept.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Federal hearing focuses on search for F/V Patriot]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273010715.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A congressional subcommittee today begins hearings into the efficacy of Coast Guard search and rescue missions, and focused on failures highlighted in response to the sinking fishing vessel Patriot.<br>
The Gloucester boat was lost with its family crew of two 14 miles from port last January.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Text of Rear Admiral Brice-O'Hara's statement on CG search and rescue efforts]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[NOAA urging 250K boaters to check emergency beacons]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_197234407.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. &mdash; Citing delays in identifying a scallop boat as it sank in the Atlantic Ocean in March, the federal government is contacting nearly a quarter of a million boaters, urging them to make sure their emergency position locators are correctly registered in a rescue database.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Survival suit from Patriot  recovered]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_190224104.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A survival suit believed to be that of Matteo Russo, whose fishing boat Patriot sank in January under still unknown circumstances, has been recovered off the Cape Cod shore by a lifeguard.<br>
The suit, enclosed in an orange bag with no signs of being worn before entering the water, was spotted floating in the surf Monday between Lecount Hollow and Marconi beaches on the Atlantic coast of Wellfleet, about halfway up the forearm of the Cape, the Coast Guard confirmed yesterday. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pathos of Patriot tinges Fiesta]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:18:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_178011820.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A special poignancy visited the opening ceremonies of the 82nd St. Peter's Fiesta last night.<br>
It was carried in the stoic grace of a fisherman's widow reintegrated in the joyous celebration of faith, surrounded by family, friends and community &mdash; a sea of affection.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coast Guard steps up  access to, training for VMS in Patriot's wake]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_168002927.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On the January night the Patriot was lost with its crew of two, a riveting symbol of a generally ineffective response was the frustrated efforts of an operations unit controller at Coast Guard Sector Boston to gain access to the vessel monitoring system that could have located the boat.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[CG report shows broad failure in Patriot case]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_163215206.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard's delayed response to the initial notification of a fire alarm radio signal from the doomed fishing vessel Patriot reflected systemic failure by duty personnel at multiple levels, according to a final action memo issued by the Atlantic Area commander.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coast Guard: Response was slow]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_162224818.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard yesterday announced that its response to the sinking of the fishing vessel Patriot, which went down under still uncertain circumstances in January with its crew of two, was slow and flawed.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plans in the works to raise the Patriot]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_141222803.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The fishing vessel Patriot will be raised and examined for evidence of what caused it to sink during a winter fishing trip that took the lives of its two-man crew, the attorney for the estate of the owners said yesterday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coast Guard leader leaving with no word on Patriot probes]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 10:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_135093745.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Less than a week after a Gloucester trawler was mysteriously lost at sea with its two-man crew, the commander of Coast Guard Sector Boston promised that an investigation into the delayed response would be swift, its findings public.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tug owner seeks legal protection]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_105230013.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A Louisiana company has asked a federal judge in New Orleans to exonerate it from any liability in January's sinking of the Gloucester fishing vessel Patriot, which was lost along with its family crew of two under mysterious circumstances.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Patriot crew's family to sue tug owner]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_103230030.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The owners of the ocean-going tug Gulf Service will face a suit for causing the deaths of Capt. Matteo Russo and his father-in-law John Orlando aboard the fishing vessel Patriot, which sank under mysterious circumstances in early January.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coast Guard commander transferred; Patriot investigations are still incomplete]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_103225906.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Capt. Gail Kulisch, commander of Coast Guard Sector Boston for 17 months that included the still unexplained sinking of the fishing vessel Patriot with its two-man family crew, has been transferred to a unit in Arlington, Va.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Close call for fishing boats, barge]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_089230429.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The high seas collision that didn't happen, didn't happen about dawn Saturday.<br>
It was then that a barge pushed by a tug and operating without radar emerged from a "black thick of fog" just past Thacher Island into a flotilla of day-fishing boats, local fishermen said yesterday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[CG chief: VMS use wasn't 'routine']]></title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:55:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_033231625.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard's top ranking search-and-rescue officer says that getting access to a VMS or vessel monitoring system database to locate the last "ping" point position of the Patriot for a lifesaving effort for the crew of two should have been "routine."]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Patriot fouled; security too late]]></title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:08:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_027001411.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Five days after the Patriot was mysteriously lost with its crew on popular fishing grounds 15 miles out of Gloucester Harbor, the Coast Guard moved to secure the area and keep the wreck site free of contamination.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['You could look through the windows']]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:59:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_023215852.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The mystery surrounding the sinking of the Patriot and the death of its two crew members only deepened yesterday.<br>
The first photographic examination of the wreck, involving four hours of video and stills taken by Bill Lee working from his fishing boat, revealed no apparent clues.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Photo project cleared: Coast Guard OKs underwater exam of Patriot]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:25:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_022202434.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard yesterday approved the first underwater photographic examination of the Patriot. The demise of the Gloucester fishing boat and the deaths of both its crew members remain a mystery 20 days after it was seemingly swallowed by the sea.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Families push for underwater Patriot photos]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:50:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_020230409.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Elected officials and a lawyer for the estate of one of two Gloucester fishermen who died in the unexplained, rapid sinking of the Patriot early this month pressed the Coast Guard yesterday for a definitive, "subsurface" examination of the wreck.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Still the best avenue for speaking to the local community]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:30:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_016221459.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The night that Capt. Gail Kulisch, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston, came to Gloucester to visit for the first time with local officials and the families of the victims lost in the Patriot tragedy, she and Coast Guard Station Gloucester Cmdr. Nathan Knapp also came to visit the Times.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fishermen urge better use of VMS]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:55:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_014002027.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[NEW BEDFORD &mdash; A nascent coalition of political and fishing interests came into being yesterday around the notion that the VMS tracking or vessel monitoring system used to enforce the regulation of commercial fishermen could be as helpful &mdash; and should be &mdash; in finding and saving them.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fishermen, advocates simmer over priorities]]></title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:55:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_012222105.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Before there was grief over the deaths of a father and father-in-law lost with their boat while fishing, in Gloucester and throughout the Ocean Nation of commercial fishermen there was aggravation and bile.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lack of VMS code slowed Coast Guard]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:26:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_011232528.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The commander of Coast Guard Sector Boston said yesterday the start of rescue efforts for the doomed fishing boat Patriot and its crew was delayed by an inability to access computerized tracking records in the vessel monitoring system.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bucking tradition with headlines  on Patriot coverage]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_009215257.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A headline really isn't even part of a news story. But, as the briefest of summaries, it sure is the statement that attracts readers' attention and tells them what the story they're about to read is all about.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tearful goodbyes for fishermen]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:28:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_008224242.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Gloucester, and the close-knit fishing community at its core, bid tearful goodbyes yesterday to two of its adopted sons, John Orlando and his son-in-law Matteo Russo, who died early Saturday while commercial fishing on a family-owned boat.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[TUG focus of Patriot Probe]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:30:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_009221909.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Coast Guard officials said last night that a tug towing a barge has become the focus of the investigation into the sinking a week ago this morning of the recently outfitted, steel-hulled commercial fishing boat Patriot that went to the bottom killing both crew members.
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			<title><![CDATA[Coast Guard investigates second boat]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:56:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_008224434.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hours after a funeral Mass and burial of the father and husband of Josie Russo, the Coast Guard revealed last night it had made a potential break in the investigation into the mysterious sinking early Saturday of the men's modern, well-equipped fishing boat, the Patriot.
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			<title><![CDATA[Grief, loss expressed at vigil]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:55:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_007225233.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a cold January wind, mourners stood in a line out the door of St. Ann Church and on to Pleasant Street last night, waiting to pay their respects to the family of Matteo Russo and John Orlando, two Gloucester fishermen who died at sea over the weekend.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What took so long? Coast Guard didn't send help to Patriot for nearly 2 1/2 hours]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:51:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_007225100.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Coast Guard Station Gloucester, on its own, was not allowed early Saturday to launch a search for a missing fishing boat. <br>
Instead, the Coast Guard command in Boston decided not to even begin searching for the Patriot until more than two hours after Station Gloucester was informed that its two-man crew had taken it fishing, and that communication between the boat's co-owners &mdash; the captain and his pregnant wife, who was onshore in Gloucester &mdash; had ominously ceased, except for the remote radio signal from a fire alarm. 
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