Today, with high winds and record temperatures. Huge fires creating their own twisters. Thousands of residents forced to flee their homes. Animal habitats gone. Were live on the fire lilines s morning. Supersoaker. A major washout today with a massive storm system bringing rain to a 1,500mile stretch the gulf to the northeast. That rainy weather, plus high winds, even snow, expect to impact people wrapping up vacations across the country. Were tracking the storms path. All that, plus tragedy on the high seas. A crew member of the doomed fishing boat that sank off the coast of alaska, speaks out about the horrific ordeal. You can die in those situations. I knew thats what we were going into. Byebye brady . Could today be the last time tom brady puts on a new England Patriots jersey . And all grown up. 6yearold Prince George poses beside his dad, grandfather, and great grandmother, the queen, in a portrait that has everyone marveling at how grownup he looks today. Saturday, january 4th,
Being a Chignik fisherman, Ryan Yovino had walked the beach in Kujulik Bay many times before, mostly finding glass bulbs and fishing nets. This time was different.
Jon Lawler, 36, one of two survivors from the F/V Scandies Rose sinking, died Sunday in Anchorage from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident, according to reports from the Anchorage
× By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times
Published: February 26, 2021, 7:34am
Share: This undated photo shows the Scandies Rose vessel in Seattle. The search for five crew members of the Scandies Rose in Alaska has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard said after two other crew members of the vessel were rescued after the 130-foot crab fishing boat from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sank on New Year s Eve.(Mike Fancher/The Seattle Times via AP)
Three Washington naval architects this week laid out a damning critique of flaws in a federal rule that guides the loading of crab boats amid dangerous, icy conditions off Alaska.
Coast Guard opens hearing into 2019 sinking of crab boat Scandies Rose
By AP News Staff
EDMONDS, Wash. - The Coast Guard has opened an inquiry into the deadly sinking of the crab boat Scandies Rose in the Gulf of Alaska.
Five of the boat’s seven crew members lost their lives when it overturned in heavy seas and freezing spray near Sutwick Island the night of Dec. 31, 2019.
Survivor of capsized boat talks about harrowing efforts to survive
Survivor of capsized boat talks about harrowing efforts to survive
The Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigations is holding a two-week public hearing in Edmonds, Washington, that will include testimony from the vessel’s co-owner, two survivors, former crew and naval architects, The Seattle Times reported. It’s aimed at finding a probable cause of the sinking, as well as recommendations for improving safety in the Alaska fleet that joins in winter harvests for snow and king crab.