How many people died when the Lady Mary went down in the water?
Inquiry into Lady Mary sinking told skipper and crewman used marijuana By Calvin Palmer The captain and a crew member of the scallop boat that sank off the coast of New Jersey in March had traces of marijuana in their blood, the inquiry into the sinking heard yesterday. Timothy Smith had high levels of the drug, said Dr Anthony Costantino who analyzed the blood samples on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard. Smith’s brother, Roy Smith Jr, the skipper of the Lady Mary, also tested positive but the level was lower. Stevenson Weeks, the lawyer for the Smiths’ father, said the level may have been caused by second-inhalation from Tim Smith’s marijuana use. Costantino could not determine when Smith ingested the drug or whether he was impaired at the time of the sinking, which claimed the lives of six of the seven men aboard. Earlier, the inquiry into the March 24 sinking off Cape May heard that the way the Lady Mary is resting on the ocean floor – upright and with her nets loaded scallops – sugge
