on Saturday April 23, 2016 at around 4:30 pm myself along with family and friends were fishing about 12 miles out of south pass when we herd a distress call from the charter vessel Strike Zone. They were taking on water and needed help. let me first say that we are fairly new in the world of offshore fishing but new he was coming in so clearly that he had to be close. next we heard the supply vessel Roman Eli responding but he was about 20 minutes from him. we received the location pulled in our lines and quickly headed to them. At the time of the distress call we were fishing next to at least 7 other boats many of them charter boats from cypress cove and venice marina I know there radios were on because we could here them and they knew where they were. It disturbed all of us that not one of them quit fishing and responded. Roman Eli tied the Strike Zone to their port side and began pumping . Our boat Family Therapy took the 6 passengers and gear on board and returned them safely to Cypress Cove.
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