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OCEAN CITY, Md. — USCG crews located two men overdue from a fishing trip East of Ocean City Tuesday. USCG Station Ocean City received a call from a woman reporting that her husband and a friend left for their fishing trip Monday at 4:15 p.m., and that they still had not returned. USCG Station Cape May, N.J., sent the crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Mako to assist. A USCG C130 spotted the missing vessel. The USCGC Mako was diverted and confirmed that to be the vessel and crew being searched for. The two men stated that the vessel was overheating, which is why they couldn’t make it back to port.
"In regards to VHF radios, everybody should have those. What would have been more effective, especially with offshore boaters and fishermen, is an EPIRB.”
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