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Family of missing Washington crab fisherman push for mandatory personal locator beacons
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It has now been more than three weeks since Bryson Fitch, a 23-year-old Washington father of three went missing at sea after the crabbing boat he was working on started to sink.
As his family continues scouring the beaches near Willipa Bay searching for him, his mother-in-law is hoping to bring awareness to the federal maritime laws regarding wearable locator devices. She believes a change in that law may have prevented her family's heart-wrenching loss.
"If they would have showed up-- when they rescued those two guys-- and he had a beacon on his belt, they would have found him," said Briee Roby, Fitch's mother-in-law. "They are getting better technology. They do have these vests with beacons in them... and if they could require them, and just change the maritime laws and update them a little bit to wear these, it could save hundreds of lives."
Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/family-missing-washington-crab-fisherman-push-reform/281-7184b1ff-5072-4433-8660-403d1b9ab154