PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials are crediting a paraplegic skipper with keeping his cool and calmly issuing a mayday as his 24-foot fishing boat took on water before it rolled over off the Maine coast in a boating accident that took a Biddeford man’s life.
Officials say 47-year-old Douglas Isenberg of Biddeford died Friday after the 24-foot boat, Job Site 2, rolled in seas about 5½ miles off Kennebunkport.
Marine Patrol Sgt. Rob Beal says things could have turned out worse if the boat’s skipper, Nicholas Masi III, of Biddeford, hadn’t instructed the three other men on board to put on survival suits and made a mayday on his marine radio.
A passing yacht heard the distress call and pulled out three of the men. A lobster boat pulled out the fourth.
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