According to the information the capsized vessel had been fully lowered into the depths of the barge, which transported the wreckage to New York City Monday night. The tedious job of getting a 64-foot commercial fishing vessel out of the ocean was handled by two divers drilling holes into the hull, connecting cables through the holes and to the mammoth crane extended from the barge.
No doubt the job was tough and enormous extending from the barge that had been removing stray pieces of wreckage from in front of the rock jetty. The pieces, draped in thick, green seaweed, had been submerged near the remains of the capsized commercial fishing vessel.
The DonJon Marine Co. barge removed the capsized Atlantic Traveler, which has been in the water since crashing against the inlet side of the rock jetty on May 11. After a few days the remains floated over to the ocean side of the jetty and was no longer impeding inlet traffic. The 64-foot Atlantic Traveler capsized after losing its steering and scraping up on the jetty rocks. Three crew members, William “Skip” Hill, 58, Brick; Matthew Morris, 19, Point Pleasant; and William A. Lewis, 30, Marshallberg, N.C., were safely rescued by the Coast Guard.
