Coast Guard reports it was slow to respond to sinking fishing boat
But says men not reachable in time
A US Coast Guard commander conceded yesterday that the service was slow in responding to a fishing boat sinking off the coast of Gloucester in January, but said that the vessel went down quickly and the two men who died probably could not have been saved. (Full article: 462 words)
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