He was part of dives that located a World War II German submarine as well as a 19th century French ocean liner.
The N.J. dive team that found pre-WWII-era submerged sub on the ocean floor near the Delmarva Peninsula, are, from left to right, Tom Packer, Captain Joe Mazraani, Jennifer Sellitti and Captain Eric Takakjian.
Mazraani has died.The captain of a Point Pleasant, New Jersey-based boat died Tuesday in a diving-related incident in Massachusetts, caused by a medical emergency, according to his shipwreck exploration company. Joe Mazraani, who has discovered multiple historic shipwrecks, was leading a dive to a shipwreck about 200 miles offshore onwhen he suffered the emergency, according to Atlantic Wreck Salvage. The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast District said it received notification of the incident, but that the New Bedford, Massachusetts, police department assisted the dive team. A New Bedford, Massachusetts, police spokeswoman declined to comment and referred NJ Advance Media to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, which couldn’t immediately be reached., which uses the vessel the D/V Tenacious to locate sunken ships, conduct dives, and salvage shipwrecks. Mazraani, 47, of Millstone, Monmouth County, worked as a criminal defense attorney in Middlesex County, while Sellitti is New Jersey’s public defender.“Joe Mazraani was larger than life” she wrote. “He was kind, compassionate, and generous. A mentor and a student, a friend, brother, son, and partner. Whether motoring aboard the D/V Tenacious, diving into deep and dangerous water, or defending his clients in court, Joe demanded the best of everyone around him. Sometimes he demanded it grumpily — but he always demanded by example. “I loved Joe fiercely, and he loved me back just the same. We were partners in everything — especially this." Sellittii added that there is “no reason to suspect diver error or equipment failure. All indications point to a medical emergency.”, a French ocean liner that was last seen off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.sunk nearly 70 years earlier off of Nantucket. On the last day of a three-day expedition, the team, using side-scan sonar technology, located U-550, a submarine that was sunk April 16, 1944, during a naval battle.Lady Mary commercial fishing boat that sankRaised in Lebanon, Mazraani emigrated to the United States when he was 15. He became a certified diver in the mid-1990s and was recently certified as a closed circuit diver. The office of the public defender also mourned Mazraani. “Joe was larger than life: fearless, kind, and deeply committed to justice,” it said in a statement. “Our hearts are with the public defender and his loved ones.”
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