Mark Alan Lovewell
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
An 18-year-old conch crewman was revived after being pulled overboard from his boat, submerged and brought back onboard on Wednesday morning, a few miles from Lambert’s Cove Beach.
The youth was pulled underwater from the 34-foot fishing boat Helen Irene, when his leg became entangled in the warp line. He was brought back onboard “unresponsive” and was given CPR, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The call for help on the marine radio happened at 11:35 a.m.
Fifty years ago last month, National Geographic did a full spread on Martha’s Vineyard. There were beautiful photographs and an article written about the iconic character of the place. The June 1961 issue, edges worn, cover faded, is still tucked onto bookshelves in many old Island family homes. Copies have passed from one generation to the next as a keepsake, like an old Vineyard book.
Thirty-one pages in the magazine brought international notoriety to the Vineyard as a special place, well before the Chappaquiddick incident.
The old Massachusetts State Lobster Hatchery found new life last Friday, with the formal announcement that the Oak Bluffs facility will be used for raising shellfish for the Vineyard once again.
State and local dignitaries came together to officiate an agreement to share the facility, which had not operated for many years. There were speeches and a public tour of the hatchery, which will be used by the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group to augment its other hatchery, on the Tisbury side of Lagoon Pond, and the shellfish nursery on Chappaquiddick.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
The tall ship Eagle, the flagship of the United States and the United States Coast Guard, will be sailing down Vineyard Sound on Wednesday afternoon, if weather cooperates. The 295-foot barque is en route from Boston to New Bedford. The ship has not been seen in these waters for many years. Her home port is New London, Conn.
The ship is observing its 75th year. She has been to Europe and back as part of her summer training cruise, which began in May. The ship spent last weekend in Boston.
BEARING DRIFT: A Story of Tragedy, Heroism and How Thirty-Four Sailors Rescued the U.S. Coast Guard. By Peter Sloan Eident. Pirate Press. 350 pages, $29.95.
Three baby osprey chicks are being hand raised by Gus Ben David in Edgartown following an accident aloft over Chappaquiddick last Thursday. The birds, which are about two weeks old, fell from their nest when the electrical pole that held them and their nest caught fire. Suddenly homeless, the three little birds were rescued by NStar crews and turned over to Mr. Ben David, a noted naturalist and owner of the World of Reptiles and Bird Park off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.