Attorney, Point Pleasant Shipwreck Diver Dies Offshore Year After Reversing Murder Conviction
Joe Mazraani, a New Jersey shipwreck diver and criminal defense attorney who famously reversed an innocent man's murder conviction, died in a diving-related incident on Tuesday, July 29, his company confirmed.
Mazraani, co-founder of Atlantic Wreck Salvage, passed away during a deep-sea dive roughly 200 miles offshore, on the eastern edge of Georges Bank, according to a statement released Friday, Aug. 1 by the team aboard the D/V Tenacious, the Point Pleasant-based dive vessel he led for more than a decade.
This weekend, the crew of D/V Tenacious recovered one of SS Andrea Doria’s port …
