Coast Guard Rescues Nine Crew of Crab Vessel Arctic Sea Near St. George Island, Alaska
Early in the morning of Monday, January 5, the 134-foot crab vessel Arctic Sea lost power and began drifting toward the shallow north shore of St. George Island, part of the Pribilof Islands in the central Bering Sea.
At 4:11 a.m., watchstanders at the Coast Guard Arctic District Command Center in Juneau received a call that the vessel was taking on water and had run aground with nine people aboard.
At the same time, Eric Deakin, CEO of Coastal Villages Region Fund...
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