Diane Cowan, Lobster Scientist, Trapped on Maine's Friendship Island for a Month
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [NBC News] by Erik Ortiz- March 5, 2015
Getting stranded on a desert island is one thing — but imagine getting stuck on an island covered with extreme ice. That's been one woman's nightmare for the entire month of February.
Lobster scientist Diane Cowan has been marooned on Maine's Friendship Long Island, just off the state's southern coast, and got so desperate for groceries that she had two boxes of food and fresh supplies air-dropped to her, NBC affiliate WCSH in Portland reported. "I've been iced in for 32 days. The longest I've been trapped on the island before was two weeks," Cowan, who lives on the island studying lobsters, told the station this week.
This winter has been so brutal that the ...
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