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2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner: The Wreck of the Lady Mary

The Wreck of the Lady Mary

The Star-Ledger

2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Amy Ellis Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for superlative reporting in the Newark Star-Ledger on the mysterious sinking of a fishing boat that took six lives off the coast of New Jersey.

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Photo Courtesy Royal "Fuzzy" Smith. The Lady Mary scallop boat in an undated photo. The Lady Mary sank 66 miles off the coast of Cape May in 211 feet of water. There is speculation that the Lady Mary may have been swamped or hit by a container ship passing through the busy scallop fishing grounds known as the Elephant Trunk.

Photo by Bradley Sheard. Diver Paul Whittaker looks over and photographs the heavily damaged stern of the Lady Mary. None of the divers on the scene had seen this kind of destruction, despite having explored hundreds of wrecks.

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