DNA May Now Hold the Key to Identify Those 'Lost at Sea'
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Cape Cod Times] By Doug Fraser Cape Cod Times - January 22, 2015 -
In 1990, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued 4,407 people nationwide.
On March 25, 1990, however, William Hokanson Sr. and his 19-year-old son William Hokanson Jr. went down off Martha’s Vineyard with the elder Hokanson’s commercial fishing vessel Sol E Mar and were never seen again.
A relatively new federal database, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, holds out promise for many families hoping to finally know the fate of loved ones gone missing, including the hundreds annually across the country who drown at sea and whose bodies may have been found, but never identified.Since NamUs first came online...
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