7 people are presumed dead after their Gloucester fishing boat sank. Here's how they'll be remembered.

"Many of the crew members who perished in Friday's fishing tragedy were locals, according to their loved ones. Gloucester is grieving the seven crew members who are presumed dead after the Lily Jean, their 72-foot commercial fishing vessel, sank off the coast Friday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard said it first received an emergency radio beacon just before 7 a.m. but was unable to contact the boat's crew."

"A friend of his told the outlet that Sanfilippo was a mentor to him as a fisherman. "You don't think that someone like him that's been around for so long doing it...that it would happen like that," Sanfilippo's friend said. "He took me under his wing 12 years ago, he let me come on the boat and taught me basically everything I know now.""

Seven crew members of the 72-foot fishing vessel Lily Jean are presumed dead after the boat sank off Gloucester Friday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard received an emergency radio beacon before 7 a.m., found an unresponsive body and an unoccupied life raft, and searched about 1,000 square miles with cutters, aircraft, and small boats. Search efforts were suspended after crews determined they had exhausted options. Officials are investigating the cause of the sinking. The seven presumed dead have been identified by friends and families. Captain Gus Sanfilippo was a fifth-generation Gloucester fisherman and mentor; at least one crewman, Sean Therrien, left behind a partner and two sons.

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