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FV Northern Belle was a fishing vessel that sank in the Gulf of Alaska on April 20, 2010. Three of her four crew were rescued alive; her captain, Robert Royer, died before rescue teams arrived. Three of her four crew were rescued alive; her captain, Robert Royer, died before rescue teams arrived.
FV Alaska Ranger was a fishing factory ship owned and operated by the Fishing Company of Alaska of Seattle, Washington. The ship was constructed in 1973 for use as an oil field service vessel. The ship sank 23 March 2008, after reporting progressive flooding only hours earlier.
The vessel's Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station (EPIRB) went off around 8:00am AST (UTC−9), at the beginning of the 2005 opilio crab hunting season. Three fishing vessels (FV Cornelia Marie, FV Maverick and Sea Rover), United States Coast Guard ship USCGC Sherman, [1] the Alaska state patrol boat Stimson, and a Coast Guard helicopter out of Saint Paul Island were involved in ...
On 31 December 2019, at approximately 22:00 Alaska Standard Time, the United States Coast Guard received a distress call from the crab fishing vessel Scandies Rose. The vessel was on its way from Kodiak, Alaska to the Bering Sea to fish crabs. At this point the vessel was around 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from Sutwik Island. Only minutes later, the ...
The catcher processor was abandoned in the Bering Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) northwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The fishing vessel Bering Sea ( United States) rescued her crew of seven from a life raft. A United States Coast Guard vessel sank Hawaiian Princess′s burned-out hulk with 800 rounds of machine gun fire. [29]
The agency’s command center said it originally received a distress call from the fishing vessel Tanusha about 23 miles off Kodiak, Alaska, when it started taking on water.
The 43-foot (13.1 m) halibut-fishing vessel sank in the Bering Sea approximately 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, after her engine room flooded. The high endurance cutter USCGC Boutwell ( United States Coast Guard ) rescued her crew of four after they had been in the water for only four minutes.
Billions of crabs ultimately starved to death, devastating Alaska’s fishing industry in the years that followed. Molts and shells from snow crab sit on a table in June at the Alaska Fisheries ...