a helicopterA Coast Guard chopper drops disconnected a Kodiak Island Search and Rescue Team personnel connected a formation of a adjacent land successful nan Kodiak Archipelago. (From U.S. Coast Guard)

A Kodiak kayaker died Monday aft his kayak was recovered partially submerged successful nan h2o adjacent Woody Island, according to Alaska State Troopers.

An online trooper dispatch identified nan man arsenic Michael Thomas Motes, 37.

The U.S. Coast Guard said watchstanders received a study of an quiet bluish kayak astir 100 yards disconnected nan westbound statement of Woody Island conscionable aft 10 a.m. Monday.

Coast Guard spokesperson Shannon Kearney said a MH-60 Jayhawk chopper from Air Station Kodiak recovered Motes unresponsive connected nan formation nearby, astir an hr later during a hunt of nan area. He was nan only personification recovered adjacent nan partially submerged kayak.

According to a Monday marine upwind forecast for Chiniak Bay, nan area was nether south-to-southwest astatine 20 to 25 knots, pinch seas astir 5 to 6 feet during nan day.

Troopers said nan investigation is ongoing. Motes’ adjacent of kin person been notified.