Crab Boat Destination Crew Pictures
George alaska a crew member aboard a missing seattle based fishing boat has been identified coast guard crews in alaska are searching for the fishing vessel destination a 98 foot crab boat.
Crab boat destination crew pictures. That s the conclusion of a report released last week by the national transportation safety board ntsb. As kucb s laura kraegel reports the findings shed new light on the loss of the fishing vessel destination and its six crew members. The 138 page coast guard report comes to conclusions similar to the national transportation safety board s accident brief released in july 2018. A crab boat that sank in the bering sea last winter likely capsized after it became coated in hundreds of thousands of pounds of ice.
The destination and its six crew members went missing on february 11 2017 while fishing for snow crab northwest of st. A 98 foot crab fishing boat that sank in the icy waters where the deadliest catch hit tv show is filmed has been found after a lengthy search. Kai hamik courtesy of the. The job is physically demanding so a crewman s career can be short.
Coast guard marine board of investigation released a report and final action memo on the february 2017 sinking of the 98 foot crabber destination and the deaths of six crew members. A seattle based crab boat lost since february was found on the seafloor. 11 said he had full confidence in the skills of the six lost crew and that his own son was initially supposed to be part of. A crab fishing boat that went missing in the same waters the tv show deadliest catch is filmed has been found five months after it sank.
The destination crew wrestles with a steel framed crab pot on the bering sea in an earlier season. That gave crab skippers more flexibility to not fish in the worst weather and it led to a smaller fleet of experienced crew as older less efficient boats were retired. A crew of six were fishing for crab aboard the destination. The destination was owned.
Wilson said the crew was last seen alive departing from dutch harbor on the night of feb.