EPIRB Saves Two Kodiak Fishermen After Vessel Capsizes in Gulf of Alaska
On Wednesday, January 15, watchstanders at the 17th Coast Guard District Command Center received a distress alert from the F/V Tanusha’s emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) at 9:48 a.m. They notified the helicopter aircrew in Kodiak and requested assistance from the Alaska State Troopers aboard the trooper vessel Stimson, enroute to crab fishing areas on a routine enforcement trip.
The distress call came just hours before Kodiak’s tanner crab season opened this year, expected to last less than a week catching the harvest limit of ...
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