00:00A mystery off the Massachusetts coast. Over the weekend, a 72-foot vessel vanished in the
00:05Atlantic. We don't know what exactly happened or where the captain and six others who were on board
00:11ended up, but all signs are pointing to the worst-case scenario. The boat is presumed to
00:16have sunk in 12-degree water, likely killing everyone. Around 3 a.m. on Friday morning,
00:23Captain Gus Sanfilippo was in his boat, the Lily Jean, about 25 miles off the coast of Rockport.
00:28It was miserably frigid, and so the captain decided to pack it in. He told fellow commercial
00:35fisherman and his good friend Sebastian Noto, quote, I quit, it's too cold, and that his air
00:40holes were freezing in the polar conditions. Hours later, though, the Lily Jean hadn't returned.
00:46Now, the Coast Guard scrambled aircraft cutters and small boats over a period of 24 hours
00:50and searched about 1,000 square miles of the North Atlantic. Local news says one body was recovered
00:56along with an empty life raft and some other debris, but six bodies and the Lily Jean itself
01:02were nowhere to be found, and the search was called off. Now, Sanfilippo and his crew were
01:06featured on an episode of Nor'easter Men that aired on the History Channel back in 2012.
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