Seven years after the F/V Mistress slipped beneath the Atlantic on New Year's night, the sea has finally yielded what it long concealed — the vessel itself, resting ninety-two feet down near Block Island, along with human remains that may restore a name to the nameless lost. The discovery, made possible by a nonprofit sonar survey in the summer of 2026, closes one chapter of grief for two families while opening another: whether the nation's first offshore wind farm, standing fifty feet from the wreck, shaped the tragedy in ways no official inquiry has yet examined. In the long human story of m
Fishing vessel found 7 years after sinking off Rhode Island with human remains
Two fishermen, Oscar Diaz and John Ansay, died in the wreck; human remains believed to belong to one were recovered.