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News stories about Kate Yeomans and DEAD MEN TAPPING
"Tapping into Tragedy," Lawrence Eagle Tribune, October 7, 2003 (This story also appeared in the Newburyport Daily News, Salem News and Gloucester Daily Times)
"Tragedy at Sea," Sunday Boston Herald, October 19, 2003
Kate Yeomans "Takes 5", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 2, 2003
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Another accident in the making? Dead Men Tapping raises many issues, among them the amount of shipping traffic traveling through known fishing grounds, endangering both fishermen and merchant ships like tug and tows. This is an ongoing problem, as illustrated by this June 2003 video of a tug and barge passing over Jeffreys Ledge, off the coast of Massachusetts. |
This video led to the addition of the following message that is included in each summer's Coast Guard's, First District Broadcast Notice to Mariners:
"Due
to the significant seasonal increase in the number of
vessels fishing off the New England, New York and New Jesrey seacoast in close
proximity to
separation zones and heavy commercial shipping and towing industry traffic,
mariners are advised to navigate with extreme caution when in these and all
areas of heavy vessel traffic.
All mariners shall keep a dilligent watch and be aware of each others
presence while underway or at anchor in order to avoid any potential
casualties, which in the past have included collisions, injury and death."