Ordeal At Sea First They Sang...Then They Prayed

LONG ISLAND - An 80 'll. scallopcr out of the port of Cape May took on water and sank off the coast here on the morning of June 27, casting the captain, his wife and five crewmen into the sea where they remained — separated for a time — for a day and a half. Mark Stansbury, 17, of Dennisville, was among the crewmen. It was his first time at sea aboard a commercial boat. In an interview with the Herald at his home last Saturday he relived his in- ' credible experience. There have been allegations ol Coast Guard negligence and of the unseaworthiness of the vessel. That remains to be seen But other things Stansbury lived thru during his 36 hour ordeal in the water, indeed. prove truth is stranger than fiction Read his account inside this week's Cope May County Magazine — of 'the nearby boat that sailed away after his ship sank , of the circling shark of the sailboat miles off course in a race which eventually rescued them...of the compact mirror belonging to the skipper's wife that saved the dav!

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CLAW-LIKE TEETH only needle-sharp and row upon row make the task of dislodging a swallowed hook in a sand tiger difficult. A heavy twisted rag is used to hold the upper Jaw open. The fish is in a holding box at dockside.

Tiger Shark Hunters

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by Bob Shiles SCHELLENGER LANDING - Different kind of fishermen sailed local waters last week. They came not to hook prize specimens for their trophy room or to catch the makings for a holiday fish fry. Instead they made their annual visit to the Jersey Cape to capture sharks for a couple of the major East Coast sea aquariums. Marine biologists from Mystic (Cdnn.) Marine Life Aquarium and the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Aquarium spent the week with veteran shark fisherman William Garrison searching local waters for one of the most popular of aquarium specimens — sand tiger sharks. ALTHOUGH NOT USUALLY as large and vicious as its close relative the Great White, sand tigers look very similar to the creature that thrilled and frightened moviegoers in Jaws. "People love to see their teeth," Garrison said, adding that these fish have an "awesome overbite."

But in addition to their crowd appeal, sand tigers are popular with the acquarium people because they adapt well to captivity. "THEY HAVE A MUCH milder temporarhent than many other sharks," Garrison explained. As an example, he pointed to his favorite species — mako — noting, they would never survive in an aquarium environment. "MAKOES ARE MUCH wilder in temperament than sand tigers," he said, emphasizing that if they did survive the ordeal of being captured and transported to an aquarium, they would probably injure themselves smashing into display tank walls. Locating and catching tigers, especially those not too large for aquariums to handle, is no easy task. The preferable size is between 4 and 6 feet — a length just right for transporting and maintaining in a manmade environment. (Page 14 Please)

Towns Eye Solid Waste

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Separation Tour Set Of Model Landfill SWAINTON — Half of the county's 16 municipalities — including all of the most populated - have expressed interest in participating in pilot source separation programs. According to Ted Q'Neill, solid waste manager for the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority, Lower Township, Ocean City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Stone Harbor, and West Cape May all desire to be evaluated to determine what type o( program would be feasible for them Under a source separation program, recyclable materials such as newspapers, aluminum cans and glass are segregated out of other refuse before the remaining material is taken to the landfill. •THE MUA IS PLANNING to have several municipal sout'ce separation pilot programs operational by this fall," O’Neill said, noting that the authority recently named Diane M. DeMeo to the MUA staff. George Marinakis, MUA executive director, and John Vinci, MUA chairman, have urged the authority to provide a central receiving, storing and marketing facility for the separated materials. "We have an obligation," Vinci said at a recent MUA meeting, "to provide support facilities fer municipal recycling programs." The MUA has also set July 21 as the date for a tour of a solid waste landfill in Kent County. Del. The Delaware facility, operated by that state’s Solid Waste Authority, is on a 300-acre site near Sandtown. + ’ * THE TRIP WAS arranged by O’Neill and presents, according to Vinci, "an opportunity for us to see firsthand what a <Pag« UPleue)

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Digest £S,„; Bigger Hospital

Need Evident

COURT HOUSE — The need for more beds at Burdette Tomlin Memorial here was graphically, apparent last week when the county’s only hospital had 25 per cent

more patients than beds

At one point the 171 bed hospital had 214 patients, prompting the hospital administration to announce that repeats of "periodic overcrowded conditions," may force the hospital to transfer non critical

patients to other institutions

The local hospital hds a $24 million ex pansion plan with a proposed September 1983 completion date which includes pro visions for 68 beds. Shore Memorial Hospital in Somersr Point has a $35.8 million expansion project including lor beds with a November 1984 completion

date.

Both proposals are due to be reviewed today (Wednesday) by the Cape May County Health Systems Agency Advisory Council. Today’s meeting was resphedul ed after having earlier been cancelled due to the memberships' poor attendance record which had phecluded quorums in

recent months.

Job Actions In Two Areas

COURT HOUSE — Union activities in two different areas were evident tomotorists and others last week, as county court employees and toll takers and maintenance workers on the Garden

State Pkwy staged job actions

The court employees were protesting more than a year and a half without a Contract They and relatives began noontime picketing in front of the courthouse earlier injhe week, expanding it to major county roadwayk in attempts to get

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day a tentative settlement had been reached, wiUj ratificatipn expected

yesterday

The toll takers and maintenance people, who went on strike Friday and re mained off the job earlier this week, were seeking pay and benefit parity With workers on the New Jersey Turnpike r whose hourly rate is a dollar or so more Supervisory and other parkway personnel manned the toll booths, and no major problems with traffic were reported. No Dredging Seen NORTH WIIJJWOOD - Hereford Inlet, the waterway separating back bay and ocean between here and Stone Harbor, definitely won’t be dredged this summer. Hope was held dut earlier in the season that funding would become available, but the $600,000 cost would have to be half paid by adjacent municipalities a virtual impossibility. The inlet is so badly shoaled over that extraordinary means would be needed by the power dredge to even get close enough to the^ dredge site Power to The Female People AVALON — The governing body here last week became the first in Cape May County in which women predominate, iPageM Please)

Council Prmidrnt Rachel Sloan