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I just read on another site that Marty of the Ironwood from West Lake Lodge in Montauk was offshore today and went to clear a fouled anchor when he got wrapped up in it and pulled over. Even after CPR was performed he did not make it and I also believe his son was on board with him. I am not sure if he was on this site but on many others. Him and his family will be in our prayers tonight.

Dave

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RI Popper

WOW that is very sad news. My prayers and thoughts go out to his family. It's always a sad reminder to all of us who spend time on the water to alwayse try to be very safe.

Very sad for a family member to see something like that.

Armand

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AlloyToy

I just returned from the Pats/Steelers game and popped online and had a PM from a buddy on another site.

Marty was a great guy/fisherman. Always willing to share info, techniques etc......... I've spoken with him many times, and had many invites to fish with him.

Marty RIP.........you will be deeply missed by me and many others.

Thoughts and prayers for his son (Cody) and wife, and all his friends and family. From what I hear his son was with him at the time of this tragedy.

This is just horrible........

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Andy

Sorry to hear this my prayers go out to his family and friends that knew Marty......

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Albatross

Very very sad news. Thoughts and Prayers are with the family.

Possum

This is a true tragedy, and my thoughts and payers go out to his family.

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AlloyToy

Here is an account of what happend told by Cody his son:
(taken from the Alum. boat site)

i thank you all for your support and i went to the other links and that press release isn't totally correct
this i what really happened . . .


We went out fishing Sunday 11/30/08 we left the dock at 6:15AM after getting breakfast over at gaviolas with the other two guys that joined us on our trip.
We ran 17miles to Apple tree a wreck to try and find some bigger black fish and maybe some codfish. We pulled anchor3-4 times and never found the wreck or rough bottom.
we then moved 5 miles back to where we limited out on black fish the day before(Saturday) at South Western Ledge a big rock pile.We anchored up but fishing wasn't great, mostly begauls and only 1 black fish. so my dad wanted to pull the anchor and move up a little more because we were off the ledge. We started pulling the anchor but the anchor ball never popped up and this has happened before when we snagged something. We pulled rope in for about 15-20 min and finally got to the chain. My dad put the boat in neutral and came to the back of the boat to help us. We puled the anchor up and saw the lobster pot line, but he didn't want to cut it because it's the lobster guys lively hood and how he makes a living . then the anchor got pulled out of my dad hands because the boat was drifting so my dad let some rope out and told me to go to the helm.
he said "okay Cody put in reverse"i put in in reverse than he said "okay good, now neutral" so i did then he said"forward quick" and i put it in gear and added some throttle. . . and as i did he was standing on top of all the rope we had already brought in and the rope started going out as i started to circle around for another try.
My dad's leg got wrapped wth the rope and he went over i heard him yell and i put it in neutral. the other guy yelled man overboard as i watched my dad hold onto the gunnel trying to get it off his leg and got pulled over. I put the boat in neutral and went and got a throw ring and had the guys throw it to my dad as i went on the radio to call in a man overboard on channel 16.
i saw my dad floating with his head above the water next to the orange anchor ball and i started to head towards hima nd tiold the guys to get ready to grab him. . . they missed
i circl around this time my dad on my side
he was already under water but i pulled his head up and had both my arms under his arms trying to keep his head above the water
he was unconcious the boat was drifting and he got pulled out of my arms and was under again.
i circled around real quick and this time one of the guys got out a galf. they got his jacket and as they pulled to bring him in his jacket came off.
then i started backing down and got halfway to where i assumed my dad was and wrapped the prop with our anchor rope because the guys onboard didnt know to tell me where the line was so that didnt happen.
throughtout this i was on the radio with the coast guard and the other two gys onboard with us were shooting flares at the closest boat which we found out later was the viienne.
we finally got them to come over and by then he was already under a good ten minutes and unconcious. myself and the two otherguys on our boat were just yelling some many different things that i dont think the Vivienne new what we wanted them to do.
we finnaly got across to them that we were disabled and that my dad was still underwater straight out the back of our boat.
they grabbed the lin with a galf and followed it until they got to the bouy with my dad next to it .
they cut the anchor and brought my dad aboard and i am unsure of what they did after that.
I was now adrift and i pulled in all the anchor line and got two wraps off the prop but i couldnt get anymore off.
the reason for this was because the vivienne is a downeastern and cant go as fast as i could so i knew my dad would have a better chance if i coudl get hiom onto our boat and i didnt care how rough i wa sgoing to get him back.
the vivienne couldnt transfer my dad to a coast guard boat because it was to rough



i love my dad and i hope he lived happily and i know that he will still look out for me.
and all i wish is that the cold got to him before the more painful suffereing underwater


Cody A. McMillan


Let's all learn that things can go wrong quickly........

Damn I'm gonna miss you Marty!!!
AT

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Possum

That is absolutely horrible. I cannot even imagine being in that situation, especially with the frigid water limiting what you can and cannot do even more. Thanks for sharing that AT.

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74Formula233

A very "real" account......wow....how quickly tings can go wrong

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Scup

I mean no disrespect to the family but what a horrible thought that you might have been partially responsible for a death of a loved one. It happens all the time with automotive DWI, but this was not the situation. Here it was to be nothing more than a pleasant fishing trip among loved ones and friends. Over the past two years, it seems that the process of anchoring has cause the demise of several local fishermen. I had thought that the ball technique was a very safe method for pulling the anchor especially after all of the discussions by this form on this very topic. I thought the only way you could get into trouble is if you drove right over your rode and fouled it with your propeller thus ending up anchored stern first into the seas. I do not like to be Monday morning quarter back, especially when such a horrible tragedy occurred, but we have think that any of us could find ourselves is a similar a situation. Getting ones feet tangled in rode and going over the side has to be a high percentage killer for fishermen and mariners. When I worked on a mud boat, the Captain warned all crewmen about the dangers of lines. One word of caution he presented that I never heard before was when moving line is all about you on a deck, never ever lift any of your feet off the deck. Another item that seems troubling to me is the prospect of pulling anchor from the stern. I do it all the time myself as I fish alone with a small tiller outboard and am too lazy to go forward. Even worse, sometimes I tie off a fouled anchor rode to the transom and use my 25HP engine to break it free. I can see and just about hear the tension in the nylon line and know I am just asking for a mouthful of whatever should unexpectedly break loose. So far I have been lucky, but one's luck can run out very quickly. This accident appears to me to be a series of incidents, for which none of them appears to be especially wrong although perhaps not of sound practice, that added up with the final blow being one's luck just ran out. My deepest sympathies go out the family.

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