NOAA Locates Crabber F/V Destination Wreckage; Coast Guard Hearing Set for August
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - July 21, 2017
The F/V Destination, an Alaskan crabber based out of Seattle, has been found near where it sank in Alaska.
Two NOAA ships, en route to scientific missions in Alaskan waters, helped locate the missing vessel at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation. The Destination and its six crew members were lost February 11, 2017, while fishing for opilio crab (snow crab) northwest of St. George, Alaska.
NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, a fisheries survey vessel, conducted the first survey from April 30 through May 1, according to ...
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