Fishing vessel capsizes, one missing

Wednesday, October 18 2006

Unalaska, AK – The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for a missing crew member from a fishing vessel that capsized 60 miles south of Sand Point in the North Pacific this morning.

A Coast Guard cutter, C-130 aircraft and helicopter are still searching the area where the Ocean Challenger went down, and three of the four crew members have been recovered. Petty Officer Eric Chandler said that few further details were available at the moment.

State records list the Ocean Challenger as a 49-foot fishing boat with an owner in Fort Bragg, California. No one answered the phone at his residence today.

Rescuers are coping with difficult conditions at the site, where winds were blowing at 50 knots and seas were at 30 feet this afternoon.



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