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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 27 > Crabber and his rescuers recall harrowing ordeal

Crabber and his rescuers recall harrowing ordeal

Coast Guard team plucked Eric Petit from waters off Washington

By Deeda Schroeder / The Bulletin
January 27, 2011

ASTORIA — Eric Petit was trying to loosen a stuck crab pot when it happened.

He was on his 32-foot fishing boat, Ella Ann, hauling in crab pots in “the sink,” just inside the Willapa bar in Washington, when the wave came. “The wave rolled the boat instantly upside down,” said Petit, of South....

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