Coast Guard suspends search for 3 missing boaters near Seward

Resurrection Bay connected April 16, 2024. (Jamie Diep/KBBI)

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its hunt for 3 missing group Thursday greeting aft a vessel capsized adjacent Seward. A bully Samaritan recovered different individual who was unresponsive erstwhile recovered successful nan water, nan agency said.

“We connection our deepest condolences to nan loved ones impacted by this tragedy,” Cmdr. Chris Svencer, nan ngo coordinator for nan search, said successful a statement.

Coast Guard watchstanders had received a distress telephone from nan boat, a 21-foot Hewescraft, connected Wednesday morning. The vessel had 4 group aboard and they reported it was taking connected h2o successful nan Aialik Bay area adjacent Seward, according to nan Coast Guard’s statement.

The Coast Guard sent an MH-60 Jayhawk chopper from Kodiak to nan site, Lt. Cmdr. Mike Salerno said successful a prepared statement. It arrived astir 9:50 a.m. Wednesday.

“They located nan capsized vessel, and a adjacent bully Samaritan arrived connected segment arsenic good and recovered 1 unresponsive individual pinch nary signs of life from nan water,” he said.

The bully Samaritan vessel, Skana, took nan personification to Seward wherever they were transferred to emergency aesculapian care. The Coast Guard besides sent an HC-130 Hercules airplane and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Naushon to nan tract to hunt for nan remaining people.

Salerno said nan information of nan personification recovered was chartless Thursday afternoon, and he said he could not instantly supply nan logic for suspending nan hunt for nan different boaters.

In its statement, nan Coast Guard said crews had searched astir 95 quadrate miles for a mixed 9 hours. There were 20 mph winds pinch gusts up to 30 mph, 12-foot seas and 10-mile visibility during nan incident.

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