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You try contacting the Hokanson family in Fairhaven, Mass. You're able to reach Manuel Aguiar, William Sr.'s brother-in-law. He says he's heard the tapes of the two distress calls. He says the first call was clearly from William Jr., and the second call was a different voice. He says the family is angry at the Coast Guard.

"They're out there to serve the public, fake call or not," he says. Aguiar fights back tears as he describes William Sr. as "one of the best men in the world. He would give you anything he had."

William Jr. was a hockey star and a good student who loved fishing as much as his dad, Aguiar says. William Sr. had been fishing for 20 years, and his son started joining him at age 6.

"They were very close," Aguiar says. "William Sr. would never have let anything happen to his kid."

Aguiar tells you it was the second loss at sea for the Hokanson family. In 1952, William Sr.'s father, Fritz, was lost off Nantucket on the fishing vessel Paolina.

You also call Adolph Allerdt, director of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford. He tells you that marble cenotaphs there honors lost seafarers, from the whalers of the 1800s to present-day fishermen.

"Fritz Hokanson is remembered here," Allerdt says. "Now, his son and grandson will be too."



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