hurt down here. a lot of what really amounts to post traumatic stress. the immediate cause of the stress is over for hundreds of thousands of people for returning troops and around the gulf it keeps on going, with no end in site. exxon valdez spill sparked a wa wave. it will be a long time. mayor, thanks for being with us. you knew allen kruse, didn t you? yes, sir. i knew it very well. he was a good friend, good husban husband. there s a lot of people on the edge. we feel hopeless. we feel helpless. we don t feel like there s an advocate out there. we feel like our politicians, right and left, we re pawns in their political game.
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fishing regulations and an oil spill. this has been six years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. reporter: stress that his friends believed finally became too much for kruse and now they re worried about others. reporter: are you afraid that maybe one of your other friends out there might be thinking about something extreme? sure. we worry about that. we worry about that every day. reporter: what are you going to do about it? that s why we re trying to get the word out. reporter: as a gesture to the community grieving for him, kruse s family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought here to his port. here it is right now, the rookie. his friends say there s really no better way that they could think of to pay tribute to a man who loved what he did for a living and loved the waters where he worked. it s the rookie s final voyage, carrying a cargo of uncertainty and sorrow. david mattingly, cnn, orange beach, alabama. man, it is a lot of, lot of
waters that once made him a living and in so many ways gave him a life. his friends say the oil spill and all that s happened since weighed heavily on. we don t know what happened that made him end his life. the concern now is that he will not be the last. the strain is growing. church groups are bringing in extra clergy along the coast. 1500 people have received counseling, according to catholic charities. experts are seeing more drinking, more domestic violence, more despair. here is david mattingly. reporter: people who knew him say allen kruse lived to fish. those closest to him say that life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. he thought it was dead? yes. reporter: he said that to you? yeah. reporter: and there was no hope fishing was going to come back? not in his lifetime. reporter: kruse was a leader, drumming up business in good
fishing boat captain was working for bp on clean-up duty in the waters that once made him a living and in so many ways gave him a life. his friends say the oil spill and all that s happened since weighed heavily on. we don t know what happened that made him end his life. the concern now is that he will not be the last. the strain is growing. church groups are bringing in extra clergy along the coast. 1500 people have received counseling, according to catholic charities. experts are seeing more drinking, more domestic violence, more despair. here is david mattingly. reporter: people who knew him say allen kruse lived to fish. those closest to him say that life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. he thought it was dead? yes. reporter: he said that to you? yeah. reporter: and there was no hope fishing was going to come back? not in his lifetime. reporter: kruse was a leader, drumming up business in good