A chopper successful nan skyA U.S. Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk chopper (File/KTOO)

A hunt is nether measurement Wednesday for a missing boater adjacent Petersburg, pinch different astatine a section infirmary aft a boating mishap southbound of town.

Petersburg Emergency Services Director Aaron Hankins said a larger alloy reportedly T-boned a Hewescraft skiff astatine astir 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. The mishap reportedly happened successful nan Wrangell Narrows betwixt Green Rocks and Blind Slough.

Hankins said that a adjacent boater reportedly pulled a 2nd personification from nan h2o and handed them disconnected to medics astatine Papke’s Landing. That personification is astatine Petersburg Medical Center, and is reported to person hypothermic symptoms and insignificant injuries.

U.S. Coast Guard Sector Southeast is starring hunt efforts for nan missing boater. Petersburg and Wrangell Search and Rescue teams are some connected nan scene, each pinch a diver. Alaska State Troopers and nan Petersburg Police Department are besides responding, on pinch bully Samaritans successful nan area. 

The identities of nan boaters person not been released.

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