martes, 2 de julio de 2019

Coast Guard suspends search for person in the water in Nushagak Bay, Alaska

A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules and a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrews searched in approximately 650 square miles a fishing man from the Pail Rider vessel. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Air Station Kodiak (archive).

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard suspended its search for a person in the water in Nushagak Bay, Monday.

Two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews and a C-130 Hercules aircraft crew from Air Station Kodiak searched approximately 650 square miles over the course of more than ten hours for a male crew member from the commercial fishing vessel Pail Rider who went overboard at approximately 3 a.m.

The search was suspended at approximately 4 p.m.

"Despite our very best effort today along with about 10 fishing boat crews who helped us search, we were not able to locate the man who went overboard this morning,"​ said Ray Dwyer, Coast Guard 17th District command duty officer for the case. “After an exhaustive effort, the difficult decision was made to suspend.”

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