The bodies of two sisters were recovered Wednesday from the wreckage of a Sitka fishing charter boat that capsized Sunday night in the deadliest incident in the Alaska charter industry in decades.
with their husbands and other family members, the Associated Press reported.
Passenger Robert Solis, 61, of Canoga Park, and boat captain Morgan Robidou, 32, of Sitka were still considered missing. On Wednesday, the seas were calm enough for divers to enter the vessel while it was still submerged, said troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel.Previously, the “sea state was too intense to get inside the boat,” said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Ian Gray.
Efforts to refloat the boat and tow it to Sitka are ongoing, Gray said. The Coast Guard is investigating what led the boat to capsize.Michelle Theriault Boots is a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. She focuses on in-depth stories about the intersection of public policy and Alaskans' lives. Before joining the ADN in 2012, she worked at daily newspapers up and down the West Coast and earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon.
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