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Can No Longer Skipper Without Hearing Person Aboard Craft

A San Diego recreational fisherman was ordered by the Coast Guard to terminate his voyage Sept. 9 because he is deaf. The order came after an encounter with a patrol boat in San Diego Bay.

Steve Turner, 52, of South Park, was inbound aboard his 23-foot Parker Flying Fingers, when a Coast Guard patrol boat stopped him at 7 p.m., about 200 yards west of the Zuniga Jetty. Turner was returning from a daylong albacore trip with three passengers, all deaf. more>>

- - Contributed by Lauran Giudice - -
- - from The Log California's Boating Newspaper - -