3-4-2019
SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard report blames a crab boat’s owner and captain for a fatal 2017 voyage in the Bering Sea.
The report concluded the Seattle-based Destination was overloaded when it left port in February 2017 and the captain set out in freezing spray with a fatigued crew that failed to remove a heavy buildup of ice on the hull and gear.
The boat sank off a remote Alaska island.
The bodies of its six crew members have not been found.
It was the worst Alaska crab boat disaster in more than a decade.