Missing Alaska Ranger crew member identified

Sunday, March 23 2008

Unalaska, AK – A Coast Guard cutter and two helicopters are searching for the final missing crew member from the fishing vessel Alaska Ranger, which sunk yesterday morning in the Bering Sea west of Unalaska Island.

The Coast Guard has identified the missing man as Satoshi Konno, a Japanese national who was the fish master onboard the Alaska Ranger.

Coast Guard officials were meeting in Unalaska this morning to plan the investigation into the ship's sinking, the cause of which remains unclear. Half of the ship's crew arrived in Dutch Harbor early this morning on the Alaska Ranger's sister ship, the Alaska Warrior.



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