Updated: 1:42 PM EDT May 25, 2021 WMTW News 8 The wreckage of the Maine-based fishing vessel Emmy Rose has been located six months after it sank off the coast of Massachusetts.Four Maine fishermen Robert Blethen, Jeff Matthews, Michael Porper and Ethan Ward were killed.Klein Marine Systems, a New Hampshire-based company, worked with the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to conduct a side-scan sonar search for the ship.“The first thing you see is an image coming up. It’s a very ghostly image of the vessel. For about a split second you feel elation you found it. Then you feel tremendous sadness,” said Dr. Peter Ramsay of MIND Technology, Klein’s parent company. Ramsay led the search effort. The wreckage was located 800 feet below the surface of the ocean on Thursday miles off Cape Cod. “There was almost deadly silence on board the vessel as we saw the imaging on the sonar screen and then you realize the enormity of t
Wreckage of Emmy Rose located off coast of Massachusetts
Four men died when the Portland-base fishing vessel sank off the coast of Cape Cod last November near the end of a multiday trip to catch groundfish.
The Emmy Rose, outbound from Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts on Sept. 29. Photo by Robert Serbagi
The wreckage of the Emmy Rose, a Portland-based fishing vessel that sank last fall, has been located off the coast of Massachusetts.
Four fishermen aboard the vessel died when it sank early on Nov. 23 roughly 22 miles northeast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where 30-knot winds were whipping up 6- to 8-foot waves. The vessel had been near the end of a multiday trip to catch haddock and other groundfish and was carrying its catch to Gloucester, Massachusetts.