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Cargo ship, fishing boat collide off Jones Beach

The Coast Guard is investigating how a 625-foot-long cargo ship and a 72-foot fishing boat collided off Jones Beach early Friday in clear weather.

The weather was calm - visibility was 10 nautical miles, wind nine knots and wave height was just two feet - when the cargo ship Baldor and the fishing vessel Atlantic Queen collided at 3:30 a.m. 11 miles south of Jones Beach, Coast Guard spokesman...

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