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Father of missing fisherman suspects fowl play

Aug 24, 2009 News

On January 23rd 2007 three fishermen sailed some 40 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean on what was to have been, at most, a routine three week fishing trip; they never returned.
Mahadeo Ramdeo, 24; Ramnarine Jagmohan, 46 and Jason Marshall, 24 have never been seen or heard from since they left the Prittipaul Singh Investment (PSI) Wharf at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara.
Father of Jason Marshall, Johnny Dowdin, visited Kaieteur News and told reporters that he knows something went wrong.
Dowdin, himself a fisherman, insisted that the trio should not have gone on the fishing expedition alone, saying that a three-man team would not be able to work efficiently on the vessel because of the nature of the work.
He further stated that a minimum of four to five sailors would have been required to do the job and as such he suspects fowl play.
Kaieteur News understands that by the time the vessel was scheduled to take off, the Captain had not been able to round up enough sailors.
Yet the crew was told by PSI officials to set sail, or else pay a $50,000 fine.
Ramdeo, Jagmohan and Marshall set sail, never to return.
The families of the missing men have so far been given the run-around, when it came to gathering information about the missing sailors.
Kaieteur News understands that despite promises of help and support from PSI, the families have so far received nothing from the company.
Dowdin recounted that no evidence of an abandoned or destroyed vessel has ever been received nor have any unidentified bodies surfaced from the deadly waters.
He however recalled that a report had met his family, stating that a boat was discovered in Suriname, with three skeletons on board.
Dowdin says he made efforts to see the boat and skeletons by visiting Suriname, but admitted that he never got to see anything of the sort.
The families of the missing men are still holding out against hope that the men will be found, and that they would get some closure from their nightmare.

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