Two bodies were recovered after authorities located a missing fishing boat that went unaccounted for off Cape Cod, officials said.
The Coast Guard did not release the victims’ identities pending next-of-kin notification.
The missing boat, Seahorse, was spotted roughly two miles off Brewster beaches by a boater at around 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Authorities said Captain Shawn Arsenault, 64, went clamming with his girlfriend Sunday morning and never returned.
“He’s been a fisherman all his life. He’s run many boats from New Bedford to Provincetown,” Arsenault’s brother Paul said.
“He told me he wasn’t coming back until he got his 30-bag limit.”
Before he left the Rock Harbor marina in Orleans, Arsenault discarded “waste” from the boat, including a radar dome and a GPS.
“The fact that he didn’t come in with the tide that evening wasn’t necessarily alarming,” said Orleans Harbormaster Nathan Sears.
“The curious part was that the day he left the harbor, he was discarding waste off the side of the boat.”
