http://www.gloucestertimes.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:17:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273235837.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273235837.html 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. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273010715.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273010715.html 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. The Gloucester boat was lost with its family crew of two 14 miles from port last January. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:02:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273135448.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_273135448.html Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:42:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_197234407.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_197234407.html ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. and 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. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:55:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_190224104.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_190224104.html 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. 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. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:18:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_178011820.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_178011820.html A special poignancy visited the opening ceremonies of the 82nd St. Peter's Fiesta last night. 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 and mdash; a sea of affection. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:39:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_168002927.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_168002927.html 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. Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_163215206.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_163215206.html 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. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:48:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_162224818.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_162224818.html 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. Fri, 22 May 2009 05:50:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_141222803.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_141222803.html 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. Fri, 15 May 2009 10:05:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_135093745.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_135093745.html 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. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:55:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_105230013.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_105230013.html 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. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_103230030.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_103230030.html 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. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_103225906.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_103225906.html 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. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:05:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_089230429.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/patriot/local_story_089230429.html The high seas collision that didn't happen, didn't happen about dawn Saturday. 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.