Sea Hunters: Season 1 - Ep 13 "The Search for Andrea Gail"

hidden in the depths of the North Atlantic lies the wreck of the Gloucester Massachusetts fishing boat made famous by the best-selling book and hit Hollywood movie the perfect storm join the sea hunters as they attempt to find the last resting place of the doomed swordfish boat Andrea Gail lost during what has come to be known as the Halloween storm of October 1991 with over 100 million books in print clive cussler is the grand master of shipwreck tales and venture director of the vancouver maritime museum James Delgado is one of the world's foremost marine archaeologists with over 20 years wreck diving experience Mike Fletcher is an internationally renowned professional diver leading the economic team John Davis has coordinated shipwreck searches around the globe together they explore the planets last frontier in search of true adventures famous shipwrecks they are the sea hunters on the walls of the Town Hall in Gloucester Massachusetts are the names of fishermen that have over the last 300 years sailed from this port never to return the notorious Halloween storm of 1991 added six more names to this list they were the crew of the ill-fated swordfish boat Andrea Gail they're compelling true story would spawn a novel and a major Hollywood motion picture the perfect storm now join us as we search for Andrea Gail and tell the story that Hollywood never told a hunt that takes us from the wharfs of bluster to the oil and gas fields off that fabled graveyard of the Atlantic Sable Island evidence suggests it is here in these storm-tossed waters that the final resting place of Andrea Gail will be found during the closing days of October 1991 as fishing boats set out for their late season runs to the Grand Banks meteorologists were watching the skies with growing concern hurricane grace was charging north from the Caribbean and threatening the US East Coast it looked as if New England was in for some rough weather off Newfoundland hundreds of kilometers from their home ports in Massachusetts long liners were plying the waters of the Grand Banks hunting for swordfish as always their captains kept an eye on the unpredictable fall weather long lining is brutally hard dangerous work the best of times the storms of October and November only compound that risk at sea for as long as 30 days at a stretch a long liner crew live eat and work side by side day and night in all kinds of weather during their weeks at sea they may pull in as much as twenty-three thousand kilograms of swordfish worth almost a quarter of a million dollars in the open market the hunt for and the capture of these giant fish is one of the last remaining bare-knuckle battles of man vs. nature the long liner Andrea Gator had already been out for a month and was preparing to head home to Gloucester her holes filled with 18,000 kilograms of fish her captain was Billy Tyne who at 34 was a veteran of over a decade at sea but nothing in his experience prepared him for the coming events the 22 meter long Andrea Gail sailed directly into the depths of a meteorological hell Billy time is five crewmen and the Andrea Gail herself disappeared swallowed whole by a storm with the ferocity beyond belief the tragic true story of the Andrea Gail of six men trapped at sea amidst a terrifying storm rip the imagination of writer Sebastian Junger with the success of the book and the movie came immortality for the crew of the Andrea Gail nine years after their deaths but even with the book and film there remains a chapter of their story that is yet to be written the sea hunters want to locate the Andrea Gail to give the crews friends and family and the people of Gloucester a conclusion to the now famous story the focus of the search has been narrowed down to a single side-scan target just southwest of sable island approximately 203 kilometers off the coast of Nova Scotia the hunt for the Andrea Gail is a detective story in the best sense they began with the facts of the disaster Andrea Gail had been long lining swordfish on the set of shallows known as the Flemish cab far to the easternmost edge of the fishing charts with her holes full her captain Billy Tyne sets a course for home Gloucester Massachusetts on the evening of October 28th time chatted by radio with another captain he was 240 kilometres east of sable island he reported and beginning to feel the effects of the Gathering Storm the team believes that he probably decided to head for the shelter of the harbor of Lewisburg Nova Scotia where the Andrea Gail was well known and welcomed when Billy time made his last radio contact on the evening of October 28th the weather data buoy positioned approximately 100 kilometers northwest of Andrea gales last reported position was indicating sea states of over three metres and winds in excess of 25 kilometers an hour according to the data recorded at that boy Andrea Gail wouldn't experience truly threatening conditions for another 12 to 14 hours at that time the recording showed winds of nearly 80 kilometres an hour blowing steadily from the Northeast and waves increasing to 8 meters or 26 feet assuming Andrea Gail wasn't in trouble before this point cruising at her average speed of 9 knots she could have traveled approximately 230 kilometers in any direction from her last radio report if she were on a course for shelter at Lewisburg then 3/4 of the search area can be discounted potentially we had narrowed the entire North Atlantic down to a realistic search area but the question remained could our theory be supported by science to answer that question the team flies out of Halifax to visit Sable Island the infamous graveyard of the Atlantic it was here but the last traces of Andrea Gail were found their flight path brings them close to the island directly over a drilling rig the offshore exploration companies have on many occasions assisted the fishermen in times of need or bad weather unfortunately throughout the perfect storm nothing was heard or seen from the Andrea game from the air they can see the island a 1.3 kilometer wide strip of beach protruding from the sea ajaan you give me composed almost entirely of sand held together by marram grass the island is fragile it moves and shifts with the wind and the tide but Sables history is a litany of death and despair spanning hundreds of years she is called the graveyard of the Atlantic for hundreds of ships have met their end in these treacherous shallows Sables 44 kilometers on Crescent of sand appears desolate but peaceful and is the home of a hardy colony of wild horses as well as harbor and grey seals for our purposes going to Sable Island was an opportunity to look right at the only spot where tangible pieces of Andrea Gail came ashore on the west end of the island three separate pieces of wreckage washed ashore from Andrea Gail fishing gear a propane tank and an e / an emergency positioning indicating radio beacon an e firm not unlike this washed up on this very lonely Beach ten years ago here on Sable Island unfortunately it was found in the disabled position if it have been in the armed or on position when it hit the water the story of the Andrea Gail could have had a very different outcome the question of course was where exactly had it drifted from we took our question to the Bedford Institute of Oceanography where dr. Charles Hanna applied hind casting in particle tracking given the position of the items found from Andrea Gail and sable Island and using current simulation models dr. Hanna worked backwards through the storm event he concluded there was a strong possibility those items had entered the ocean northeast of sable on the east side on what's known as the sable gully we now had scientific evidence to support our original search area searching the bottom of this large area would be hugely time intensive and searching with side-scan technology would be like hunting for a needle in a haystack the seeds surrounding Sable Island are littered with wrecks the team needs to focus the search and we don't the wrecks which predate the Andrea Gail sinking the team will use critical data in the form of a US Navy anti-submarine warfare chart the chart records the results of Navy magnetometer sweeps in the region and provides the position of every magnetic hit on the ocean floor for the Navy this information is essential to differentiate between readings of existing wrecks and those which could be lurking submarines the team plans to sweep their identified search area and bring this sector of the chart up to date the beauty of having the US Navy anti-submarine warfare chart is that we have a record of exactly what was sitting down there on the ocean floor in 1988 just three years before Andrea Gail sank by doing a survey more than a decade later we now have an opportunity to fill everything in that's been added to the ocean floor since then and presumably one of those positions one of those anomalies hopefully will be Andrea game the area of ocean the team needs to sweep is extensive to say the least the most effective means to complete the survey is by air here at the canadian air force base fourteen wing greenwood in nova scotia the team meets with the crew of an aurora aircraft the aurora is one of the Canadian Air Force's primary long-range patrol aircraft and is equipped with sophisticated magnetometers designed to detect submarines lurking in the depths mr. Texas complete grounded by smell right Aurora's also have search-and-rescue capability responding to distress signals and employing their technology to locate lessels in trouble these aircrafts are equipped with scads survival kit air droppable these kits can mean the difference between life and death for crewmen in the frigid waters like the fishermen in the fishing vessels below the aircrew of the Aurora spent thousands of hours staring at these waters buffeted by the storms and gales the sea hunters team watches as a well-trained crew puts the aircraft through its sweep pattern after a few hours of sweeping three new anomalies are detected which do not appear on the 1988 and his submarine chart could one of them be the Andrea Gail when you're up in an airplane when you're doing a survey using a magnetometer it's very tempting as you look at every target that comes in to say yeah this might be it the key thing to remember is that the equipment can only go so far a skilled operator can get some sense of what he's looking at and in the case of this survey we'd added three new targets three things that hadn't been there in 1988 two of them look like geology or geological features that were exerting their own magnetic influence that was pretty clear to the operator but one looked like it might be a shipwreck what we now have to do is to get a geologist to look at them to make sure they're not natural features and if they're not if they're a shipwreck then the times come to ground truth and actually send somebody down into the water or send down a robot this search is not the first time in Aurora has hunted for Andrea Gail the Aurora aircraft were part of the massive search for the long liner after she was reported missing her disappearance was just one of many emergency calls received by Canadian search and rescue centers as the Halloween storm carved its path of destruction while tracking the progress of hurricane grace meteorologists became aware of a new and disturbing development the North Atlantic even with a regular storm can be unforgiving but on the occasion of this storm there were a few things that came together you had a very warm rain Laden tropical hurricane pushing up from the south you also had a cold front and another storm pushing down from the north both of these storms merged melted and shoved into each other and lifted up into each other they became as the US National Weather Bureau termed it a perfect storm from North Carolina to Nova Scotia the coastline was pounded by high seas and hurricane force winds gusting over 120 kilometers an hour waves reaching as high as nine meters caused coastal flooding and damage to coastal communities hundreds of homes were knocked off their foundations others simply disappeared clawed into the sea by the region sir federal disaster areas were declared in Massachusetts Maine and New Hampshire estimates of the damage ran into hundreds of millions of dollars but as powerful as the storm was along the coast at sea on the waters off Sable Island it was a nightmare captain Billy Tyne aboard the Andrea Gail was in the wrong place at the wrong time if our reconstruction of the events and the location of Andrea gales correct then Billy Tyne certainly was at the worst possible location as the storms collided and formed over Andrea Gail Billy Tyne didn't have a chance like so many before them the families in Gloucester waited for news they gathered to watch the weather reports and keep vigil lost at sea is an all too common phrase in this town without the sea and its gifts there would be no Gloucester but the seed is not part with its blessings easily and over the centuries the people of this port have paid a terrible price as witnessed by the list of nearly 4,000 names displayed on the walls of City Hall a list that is familiar to local historian and author Joe garland and this is where we have the roll call the whole roll call of the men who are lost fishing out of here which began way back in 1623 no records of the early early early years but these records started about 1878 and the show they give you an idea of what what happened you look back in the 1870s or 80s along it here and you see how long the lists are in some cases there they run over 200 men lost in one year these were the days when the fishing was under sail and they went sailed out to the Grand Banks sail only no engines no motor power they went out in these one small Dorries individual guys fishing an area of miles in small Jory's Dory fishing there was no romance to it at all it was nothing but grit and grind and hauling up a codfish that wait a 150 pounds or so from the bottom along with a let in the weight and it was it was hard grueling terribly hard grueling tough work about there in these small Dory's and it was a sort of a one-to-one struggle you know it was the last big hunter but it was the last buffalo hunt you know it was the last going after it with your bare fists in your bare hands the hunter-gatherer sort of thing in the ocean you know this was a very special breed of man and most of them have just about vanished from the sea now I'm talking about the old schooner man from a schooner they've just about vanished now there were a lovely bunch of men they were called and referred to as the finest kind which is a wonderful expression and also klostermann and plus we're talking about Nova Scotians Newfoundland is Portuguese French Irish English Scotch this is what the ethnic background of Gloucester was was built on all these all these men from different countries I think it all started with me when I first went out on the boat with my father at 8 9 years old that's when I really knew what I wanted to be once you get it in your blood gets there at least me once it was in my blood I well that's all I wanted to do fishing built Gloucester the growth of a fishing fleet led to the establishment of other industries boat building ironworking a manufacturer of sails and fittings the industry was entirely self-contained everything the fishing fleet needed Gloucester could provide although fishing regulations and technology have caused a reduction in the number of boats that sail from this port Gloucester's fishing industry still persevered since 1623 boats have sailed out of this port and the legacy of those brave fishermen lives on in the present generation Richard Hayworth has been a longline fishermen for 25 years nine of which he spent as the captain of the Andrea Gail he also served as a consultant to the director Wolfgang Peterson during the production of the film the perfect storm he meets John and Mike aboard the Lady Grace a sister ship of the Andrea Gail where much of the film's shot John and Mike want to familiarize themselves with the structure of the boat and to ask Richard for his Fox as to where she might have gone down hand-painted these are the ball drops this is what sets the depth of the line as we set it out Rick when you see the AGV you do you feel like you're back on the Andrea yeah when you won this deck and you kind of look up quickly in your CDA G everywhere it kind of gives you a little bit of a feeling the this is a fish hold and the the boards those are the the pens yep those those are the pens and not take those boards to break the boards out throw all out and then you put the fish and you put ice and you build that right back okay about 50,000 pounds of ice swordfish 50,000 this is the longline reel up here this is the monofilament 800-pound test so this is what we call the backbone of the line and knob this about 40 miles here probably meaning a little more in this reel but you know I'd like to fish about 40 miles in the night and how many how many hooks on 40 miles or 1,500 if you're up in the ground bags you know a productive area come on and I'll show the galley that's the engine room down here this this is the engine room got same setup there's the real Andrea Gail engine room access is right there the galley layout here is pretty much the same as the real Andrea Gail stove and stuff was a little bit this composition different frigerator was different but this is there's four bunks in this room right here and there's two bunks over that room over and there that there's a head right here so you've got two staterooms and a head in this six bunks real good food here you'll get five guys will all but up into this real close now and I've seen many a meal be sitting on this table and both take a wicked roll and everything goes on the floor yeah so and this rackets eat quick so we'll go up to the wheels yep just go this way went up into the wheelhouse kept this layout right here walking through here going up through the stairs are the same heads right here that's a stateroom with two bunks that's the captain's room right there all right electronics and really sure what's pretty similar to the Andrea Gail well this is the wheelhouse of the Andrea as exactly like the Andrea Gail as we're on the lady grace here but the wheelhouse the same size pretty much the same setup this chair is a little bit different and back here in the puck in the back of the pilot house this stuff was put up for the movie that's a picture of the real Andrea Gail back there that she just got freshly painted in st. Augustine Florida that's pictures of the crew member that's Murph that's David Sullivan used to be a crew member of mine right there too what's it like being on a boat like this in a big sea well I've been out in some 40 50 foot seas on the Andrea Gail and you'd be standing here like this in and just steering the boat and you'd be getting in a big wave and you'll see the wave coming you actually you can't even see the horizon you actually got us bend down you got kind of to see the top of the seas and I'll tell you it's it's it's like a you know you it's amazing looking but it's actually anybody who says that you've never been scared on a boat that they're not telling you the truth you see that coming it's just it's it's scary it's a scary feeling you know if we have a good target and we do here and I I can explain why I think the Android L might be there I might rather hear it from somebody who's worked out their fishes it if that can be the Andrea how would you suggest it god they're well and in my mind I kind of believe either either he was still headed in that direction or he changed his mind and he was heading to the Northeast and he got and he started going down see he could have easily had gotten into trouble somewhere and he and a boat rolled over and and they had met their fate someone here and the boat just had just kind of laid with its halt upside down and could have drifted back down into the sea and a long way upside many of the world's most famous shipwrecks have been found by simply listening carefully to the people who know the sea many of the fishermen we'd spoken with agreed Andrea Gail made a sudden end a capsizing which would trap air in an overturned hull a hole left to drift for some distance before finally going down our next logical step was to check with another member of the North Atlantic community the offshore oil and gas exploration company pan Canadian energy before they drill they do surveys of the ocean bottom they need to see what's down there before they position their huge platforms one of their surveys detected an object an anomaly that wasn't present in the 1988 anti-submarine chart the target was approximately the size of Andrea Gail located southwest of sable island in an area where Richard Howarth had suggested Andrea Gail may have sank this new position from pan-canadian was definitely our most promising target like Richard Hayworth Linda Greenlaw knew Billy Tyne in the Andrea Gail well Greenlaw is an author and a successful longline skipper herself portrayed in the film by actress Mary Elizabeth mastrantonio Greenlaw played a role in the actual chain of events which was not told in the film she and her crew were the last to see the Andrea Gail crew alive the last trip the Andrea Gail made I did transfer them fuel their up for a long time it was an extremely long trip for them they had poor fishing the beginning of the trip they had problems with an ice machine later in the trip when I arrived at the fishing grounds they really were due to be going in timewise they didn't have enough fish so I transferred them fuel and gave them bait so they could stay longer he ended up going further east and I got on some fish finished up his trip and was on his way home he's been steaming home for three days when the storm formed on top of him it was a real freakish thing it I believe that that weather occurred on top of the boat and they had very little warning about I mean it certainly wasn't predicted whether they could have done things differently I will never know that he was another thought with the northeast wind and it was blowing hard this way is it possible that him and again you heard that the men west of you were almost desperate is it possible that he might have thought he could have gotten some Ally some protection from sable you've probably been by Sable Island yeah it would offer some leave it I mean so dangerously it's a terrible place to be you would want to be close to Sableye loot if you knew the weather's gonna be severe you'd want to be away from Sable Island knowing that you don't really have that much control over these boats in really bad weather they don't turn on a dime they're underpowered big-time because of the fuel economy thing they make long trips we traveled great distances you can't just like throw the throttle on and spin these things around our dime doesn't work that way these are slow underpowered economical boats Mike presents Linda with the side scan images of the new survey this represents the target that's been found we have that an exact lat/long d GPS position it's a this white portion would be the shadow in other words just as my hands are casting a shadow sound when its projected out will cast a shadow so this white section would be the shadow of the object that's on the seabed in it and if you can see here if this is 20 meters 60 feet the shadow portion of it is approaching 60 feet right so it's obviously very closest target to the right size of Andrew Yale it puts it just to the south and slightly west of the extreme west and disabled why things that looks like you've certainly done your homework and I think there's a pretty good chance that you're going to find the imagery Gill and your first time out because it seems very likely I mean if that target wasn't there prior to the last time that they did one of these sonar things and it's there now and obviously if a vessel of that size had gone down since 1985 that area you would have known about it but it recorded some word if the Andrea Gail is the only vessel of that size that's gone down somewhere in that vicinity um it seems pretty likely there could be no better endorsement of the sea hunters research Linda one of the most respected captains in the fishery had survived the storm and returned with personal insight into the event in the last hours of the regale the team had done what had seemed impossible they had narrowed the search down to one credible target the final leg of their hunt is to investigate the target using an ROV or remotely operated vehicle John and Mike returned to Halifax Canada where they board the heparin see a massive ocean tug and supply this the Hebrew and Sea will transport them to the target site on a sheds will supply run to their offshore drilling operations at dusk they set sail under the lights of the port of Halifax unroot to the road guerrilla v a drilling rig exploring for natural gas southwest of Sable Island Roger on table moves start after a full day of offloading the Hebron sea breaks away from her regular duties to join in the hunt for the Andrea Gail as night approaches the team closes in on the position of the original side-scan target using global satellite positioning and bottom sonar the first electronic glimpses of their target emerge range now 600 feet per year on their Don Davis stands by to deploy a drop line in Bowie 150 feet to go Barry Letts said yeah bye Junior it over go Lamarque no way thank you see wait Roger that at first light Larry dueling from Dominion diving this dives ROV operator goes through his regular checks of a robot's thrusters and cameras this very basic machine was specifically chosen as it had to be lightweight and extremely portable over 400 meters of umbilical is neatly laid out in preparation for the dive John and Mike prepare the ROV for deployment I'm gonna get it yeah can you come in this small but nimble machine has forward and aft looking cameras and a magnetic compass for navigation displayed in the middle of the video screen four thrusters power the ROV forward Larry makes its way to the drop line and positions the ROV or remote operating vehicle to within view of the downline while the team continually lives up the tether his plan is to drop directly onto the target after descending 90 meters the ROV lands instead on a flat featureless sandy bottom yeah do you ever wish you had sonar more than right now yeah Larry senses something near there is one thing that is immediately obvious the ROV is compass swings erratically even though he can't see it he knows he's in the presence of a large mass of metal today a sign that there is wreckage there yeah closing in the camera reveals mounds of shells and crabs an indication that they're close to something standing proud on the bottom then without warning the ROV comes to a stop the machines umbilical is hung up on something the source of the problem is soon evident they are Ovie's worst enemy fishnet dai station to bridge we definitely have a target in our view behind it Larry struggles to maneuver the ROV free from the fish net it's great out thank you it's not too bad problem is we're ending amongst a lot of trawl net so whatever that whatever the target is it's got net caught on it or there was net on it so it might mean it's a sunken fishing vessel that was carrying net or the net snag on it since this target has been on the bottom but at any rate we do have structure we do have a large caught in towards the stern straight out thank you straight away so it sounds like it's rate in line with the buoy eight-zero nots is that correct the forecast just went up to 80 knots while the crew has been blessed with a window of near-perfect weather things are forecast to change abruptly the frustration of being ensnared on the bottom with weather threatening has everyone on edge more umbilical out okay you figure we're still hung up Larry I don't think so no we were clear of whatever it was he's free thank you over the next 20 minutes the team struggles to see through the shifting sands and fish net for a glimpse of something discernible some feature that might identify this wreck as the Andrea Gail with the winds picking up at an alarming rate the offshore manager calls for a report on the situation so we don't know if it's a fishing vessel that sank and then that was on it before or is it possibly there was an obstruction and a net caught on it either way we've got something some sort of a target on bottom with net and unfortunately it's the net that got it away and snarled us up and we spent a lot of the dive just trying to get untangled right the offshore manager feels that a decision must be made no I think we got a bullet yeah okay yeah all right well we appreciate what time we did get frustrating but it's already going up against my bottom there yeah yeah I'd say we did alright okay guys okay well thanks for everything the decision by Paul pan Canadians offshore manager to call off the search was very disappointing but very necessary for everyone concerned in fact hurricane-force winds closed in on us within hours given the amount of time and effort that we'd spent just to get to the site our 90 minutes on the bottom was a very short period particularly when you factor in the time that the ROV was actually hung up on the fishing net still all was not lost both Mike and I agree that given the short glimpses that we had of this particular wreck site we feel that it is not the last resting site of the Andrea Gail that location remains a mystery at what point did Billy Tyne know he was doomed the weather boy nearest Andrea gales last-known position indicated that at the peak of the storm the seas were cresting at 23 meters driven by a hundred and seven kilometer per hour winds in the midst of such fury there is only terror prayer and despair the long liners radio antenna was probably long since ripped away by wind and water leaving tyne and his men alone unable to call for help unable to reach out for comfort in their last moments for the SI hunters the outcome of the search is taken in stride it is the loss of those who search for shipwrecks to often be disappointed the vagaries of wind current and time can humble even the most painstaking analysis and diligent searching the team knows that the sea parts with her secrets in her own time but this defeat is perhaps more difficult than others for unlike so many of the vessels the team has hunted in the past the loss of the Andrea Gail is still keenly felt they knew the risks he's Gloucester them they knew that the sea can exact a cruel price for its bounty and yet they return to their ships again and again like thousands of brave souls before them to fish the banks once more such was the case of the mens of the empty Dale job this is a way of life it's a lifestyle it is a lifestyle it makes life stuff you know shut down the home like we knew each other forever hey you know why cuz we're glass the people I love glassy morning I've lived in fish different places and this is home to me and it's one of the things that makes this community so there's an extra extra special quality to it you know sort of us you know us it's us we are unique you know we're we're doing something that follows on after generations and generations and generations and we do it and we don't we do it because we have to we do it because we we're not sure we want to or not and it's hard as hell to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go fishing on the other hand when you get out there and you see that dawn come up over the eastern is this is resplendent sky that comes up and you land unto some fish and the old excitement always seems to recur you don't get that on the fish fans everything changes the method of fishing changes the evolution of the schooner and the fishing boats the drag is the eastern rig drag is the stern trawlers everything changes except one thing and that's the danger of the sea when the sea wants to take you it's very unforgiving it will take you and that any time a Gloucester vessel from this port grounds Eastern Point they never know whether they're ever gonna come back it true yeah it'll ever like I think if you looked around this bar and you talked to different people you would find probably 50% of them have lost obviously you know someone might see bartender working right now lost a brother at sea I'm sure there are many here and just knowing people grandfather's that you talk to their grandfather had been lost at sea or a father and when you do hear something I mean we all pull together when we help that family or if you know somebody always knows somebody I know someone advances in the science of navigation weather analysis and new technology have made these voyages much less dangerous and yet tragically new names are added to this list every few years with the widespread attention given to the Andrea Gail tragedy by the book and movie a window into Gloucester's history and legacy has been open to the world it could have been any port it could have been a story from the barren sea but it's not it's from my hometown yeah yeah these people that were close to us this is a boat that we worked on a lot of people that read the book you know I've said doing geez I didn't really realize what you guys went through out there yeah you know and these people that are fit go they don't have a clue you know they still don't but you know they have some idea that in the sense of what you're just talking about the book of Sebastian Junger wrote and the movie that Warner Brothers presented to the public in a sense they're really a gift back to Gloucester when you think about it cuz that they did share our story they did give us some recognition that did give some insight into what it's all about even if they didn't get all the details right but as like it's a gift yeah it is I you know I liked it all I liked it movie I liked the book the book was well written book no I I'd love to have my brother and my friends back by now that's that's nothing that I can do anything about me I can't change that part of the story to my reward I'm a firm believer in keeping history going and storytelling and it's an important part of Gloucester and we've all been through the same things and that really that really makes the plaintiff help to the putting the Cenotaph up at the boulevard that was a nice ceremony they did and just uh to go and just read the names and see who you know and could you where do you go when you've lost someone at sea it kind of changes the meaning of the ocean for you every time I every time I walk down the Bulova and look at the ocean it it really it takes on a new meaning to me oh it certainly does it's a big ocean out there and it's an ocean that despite all the best of our technology and all of the searching that we do holds and keeps all sorts of Secrets the tragedy of Andrea Gail is representative of other fishing vessels and of other fishermen we didn't find the ship but what we did by looking for is we look through a window into the life of the North Atlantic sword fishermen indeed a number of fishermen have for generations fought the ocean for a living in many cases they pay a price an ultimate sacrifice and the names on the walls back there in Gloucester reflect that sacrifice not only in terms of ships but in terms of men individuals fathers brothers sons husbands all of them claimed by at the end of the day these aren't just stories about ships these are stories about now it's your turn to get up off that couch and go into the deserts go into the mountains go under the lakes the rivers and the seas and search for history you'll never have a more rewarding adventure join us again as we search the oceans of the world for lost and famous shipwrecks another true adventure with the sea hunters

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Length: 48min 7sec (2887 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 24 2015