The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday that it had suspended its search for five people after their commercial fishing boat capsized in Alaska.
The Coast Guard received a mayday call early Sunday from the crew of the 50-foot fishing boat Wind Walker, saying that the vessel was overturning in waters just south of Couverden Point in southeast Alaska.
The area where the boat capsized was hit by heavy snow, winds up to 60 mph, and six-foot seas on Sunday.
“We stand in sorrow and solidarity with the friends and family of the people we were not able to find over the past 24 hours,” Chief Warrant Officer James Koon, a Coast Guard search and rescue mission coordinator, said in a written statement….