Two people are dead after a boat capsized near Sitka on Tuesday night. Three other survivors escaped.
The helicopter of Air Station Sitka responded to the scene around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday close to Chichagof Island, north of Sitka, according to an Coast Guard news release.
Three persons were pulled from the water at around 5:50 p.m. It was the Coast Guard cutters Douglas Denman and Kukui as well as an HC-130 aircraft from Air Station Kodiak, also intervened on Tuesday night, followed the vessel’s drift and looked around for two missing persons. unaccounted for.
A team of Sitka Fire Department. Sitka Fire Department arrived early Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by state troopers and the underwater drone in order to locate the bodies of two victims inside the vessel’s cabin in the vessel, according to the news release. Recovery efforts will begin once the conditions improve.
The weather in the region was recorded as 8-10 knots with 9-foot waves and below freezing temperatures.
The three victims who were rescued in the waters were transported to the medical staff waiting on Sitka airport. Sitka airport.
The story is scheduled to be revised.
