One in every of two crew members significantly damage when a rope snapped on a fishing boat off Nahant, Massachusetts, has died, officers confirmed Saturday.
The U.S. Coast Guard stated it responded to a misery name at 3:55 p.m. reporting two injured crew members of the vessel, named “25 TO LIFE,” about 25 nautical miles east of Nahant.
The decision reported {that a} snapped rope hit each of them — one had a contusion and doable damaged ribs, and the opposite was intermittently unresponsive with a suspected damaged neck.
An EMS staff rushed each of them to Beverly Hospital with life-threatening accidents. The Gloucester police chief confirmed Saturday that one of many crew members has died. A household pal recognized him as Jaxson Marston, a 26-year-old father of 1 with one other baby on the best way.
“He was an superior particular person, tremendous exhausting employee nice father, he liked his children. Everybody that comes from Maine is an excellent superior particular person so he was a kind of,” stated Tessa Browne, proprietor of Cape Ann Lobstermen.
Browne has been shopping for scallops from one of many boats Marston labored on for the previous few years. She is now working with fishermen within the space to donate baggage of scallops to help his accomplice and two youngsters up in Maine.
“If you eat seafood you do not take into consideration while you get a scallop in your plate there’s individuals risking their lives every single day,” Browne informed NBC10 Boston.
The tragedy occurred simply days earlier than the tip of the fishing season. Massachusetts State Police and the USCG proceed to research.
