Fishing boat with crew of 11 missing off Alaska

Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | | 0 comments »

The Coast Guard says a fish processing boat with 11 crew members on board is missing off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

The military says all that searchers had found by noon Wednesday were two empty survival suits and a partially deflated life raft. There were no signs of the boat or crew members.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Levi Reed says the agency received a distress signal early Wednesday from the 93-foot boat.

Reed says the home port of the boat is not immediately known. It was headed toward an island in the Aleutian chain with a load of cod.

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