Coast Guard searching for survivors after commercial fishing boat sinks off Massachusetts; 1 body recovered

The U.S. Coast Guard is frantically searching Massachusetts waters for survivors aft a commercialized sportfishing vessel carrying 7 people, including a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) observer, sank Friday 25 miles disconnected the seashore of Cape Ann.

Coast Guard watchstanders received an exigency presumption indicating vigor beacon (EPIRB) alert astatine astir 6:50 a.m. section time, registered to the 72-foot commercialized sportfishing vas Lily Jean.

USCG crews attempted to interaction the boat, and with nary response, issued an urgent marine accusation broadcast (UMIB), according to officials.

USCG Northeast District launched a MH-60 Jayhawk chopper unit from Air Station Cape Cod and a tiny vessel unit from Station Gloucester to hunt the area.

A USCG MH-60 Jayhawk chopper unit from Air Station Cape Cod is searching for survivors aft a commercialized sportfishing vessel sank disconnected Cape Ann, Mass. (Getty Images)

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The Coast Guard Cutter Thunder Bay was besides diverted to assist the search. 

Rescue crews found debris adjacent the determination wherever the EPIRB was activated, on with a assemblage and an unoccupied beingness raft.

The Coast Guard said crews volition proceed with its hunt and rescue response.

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said the authorities has offered its afloat support.

"I’m heartbroken implicit the devastating quality retired of Gloucester astir the sinking of the Lily Jean and person offered our afloat enactment to Mayor Lundberg, Harbormaster Lucido and the Coast Guard," Healey wrote successful a statement. "I americium praying for the crew, and my bosom goes retired to their loved ones and each Gloucester sportfishing families during this atrocious time.

"Fishermen and sportfishing vessels are halfway to the history, system and civilization of Gloucester and Cape Ann, and this calamity is felt each crossed the state," she added.

Commercial sportfishing boats docked successful Gloucester Harbor, Mass.  (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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The boat's captain, Gus Sanfilippo, and his unit were featured successful a 2012 occurrence of the History Channel amusement "Nor’Easter Men," highlighting a sportfishing expedition successful unsafe upwind conditions, according to a study from The Associated Press. 

Sanfilippo, a fifth-generation commercialized fisherman, angled for haddock, lobster and flounder, according to the report.

Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, told the outlet helium was friends with the missing captain.

It is unclear if determination are immoderate survivors. (Google Maps)

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"He’s a idiosyncratic that has a large smile, and helium gives you a lukewarm clasp erstwhile helium sees you," Tarr told the AP. "He is very, precise skilled astatine what helium does. … I’m going to marque a prediction. Tonight, time and the days that follow, you’re going to spot strength. The spot that has made this the astir historical sportfishing larboard successful the United States of America."

Gloucester, Massachusetts, is simply a coastal metropolis astir 30 miles northbound of Boston, connected Cape Ann.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.