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Old 02-17-2016, 11:09 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by spinncognito View Post
I knew two of those guys personally- worked with Shatfords wife in a coffee shop and Sully was in my bowling league. The summer before this happened I boarded the boat and scored some fresh swordfish from Shatford, got a tour of the boat too. Movie did a good job of depicting what likely happened out there. I remember walking the back shore of Gloucester after the storm and seeing car-sized boulders in the front lawns of the houses across from the ocean.

That is one of the hard things for many to fathom - these were real people, somewhat fictionalized by Hollywood, not fictional people.

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