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The “horror” of losing a loved one at sea never ends, said a Florida grandmother who said she still mourns for her son-in-law swept away in 1991’s “Perfect Storm.”
“I never stop thinking about Murph,” said Jerilynn Amrhein, 73, of Cortez, Fla.
“His death is not in the past for me.”
Her daughter’s husband, Dale “Murph” Murphy, was one of the six crew members who died aboard the Gloucester swordfishing boat Andrea Gail during that historic October storm.
The fishing boat’s last reported position was 180 miles northeast of Sable Island, southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Oct.
28. The disaster was made into a book by Sebastian Junger and a movie by the same name.
Amrhein told the Herald last night the details of how the men likely died in the towering waves was difficult to read.
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“It hits home. We don’t know the fright they felt,” she said of the crew. “This story of the missing