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Missing Fisherman's Family Looking For Answers

Romani's Father Speaks Out About Missing Son

POSTED: 5:01 pm PST December 7, 2004
UPDATED: 5:03 pm PST December 7, 2004

The father of a Point Loma fisherman is looking for answers after his son and another man went missing from sea Sunday morning. The men, 45-year-old Vito Romani and Marcos Antonio Alvarez, from Ensenada, are presumed dead, 10News reported.

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Louis Romani, the father of Vito Romani, and his family sifted through photographs of the missing fisherman. The entire family is still in disbelief that Vito Romani is gone.

Louis Romani said, "(The Coast Guard) gave it one heck of a search. They searched with airplanes, choppers and with boats."

The search was called off Monday morning.

Vito Romani and Alvarez were aboard a 42-foot fishing boat, the Gina Lisa, when something terrible happened.

"He had 20 minutes more to pick up a net and he was gone. He was coming home," Louis Romani said.

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Vick Romani was last heard from at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. A half hour later the Coast Guard responded to a notification from the boat's emergency radio beacon but there was no sign of the crew or the Gina Lisa. The Coast Guard only found an oil slick and a life raft.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert K. Lanier said, "There was some debris recovered. It will be examined by our Coast Guard Investigative Division."

Louis Romani believes his son's boat was hit by a larger ship moving through the area.

"I just hope they find out who did it. Why weren't they looking?" Louis Romani said.

In terms of what may have happened to the Gina Lisa, Coast Guard investigators say nothing has been ruled out. If necessary, the search will be resumed.

For now, the Romani family is grieving.

"There's no hope. Too many hours have passed -- it's been two days now," Louis Romani said.

The Coast Guard searched a 270-square-mile area 35 miles southwest of Point Loma.


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