Forty-two crewmen were rescued by the Coast Guard and the Alaska Ranger’s sister ship, the Alaska Warrior. Some survivors had testified that there were rips in survival suits. There has also been ...

BOSTON — The head of a firm that performed engineering work on a fishing trawler that sank in the Bering Sea, killing five crew members, told investigators Wednesday that the Alaska Ranger had a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The fishing vessel that sank quickly off the Alaska coast was enrolled in a safety program but had not fully completed the requirements, a Coast Guard official said Thursday. The ...

DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska -- Crewman Julio Morales had been working on the Alaska Ranger for less than a month when the alarm sounded, he said Sunday. At first, he didn't recognize the sound as the alarm ...

SEATTLE - A Coast Guard probe of the 2008 sinking of a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea that killed five people concludes that the vessel's owner failed to properly maintain its structural condition.

SEATTLE — A federal investigation of why the Alaska Ranger sank in the Bering Sea after the fishing vessel lost power on Easter Sunday and then went into reverse has led the Coast Guard to issue a ...

DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska -- A crewman aboard the doomed Alaska Ranger told U.S. Coast Guard investigators Sunday that he smelled alcohol on the chief engineer's breath after abandoning ship and that he'd ...

The Coast Guard (USCG) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Marine Board of Investigation into the March 23 sinking of the Alaska Ranger reconvened in the San Juan-Whidbey Room of the Red ...

Rodney Lundy has a story to tell. He says he should have told it a lot sooner. As the Seattle-based Alaska Ranger prepared to head out to the Bering Sea to fish for Atka mackerel, Lundy, an assistant ...

On the night of March 23, 2008, most of the crew sleeps while fishing vessel Alaska Ranger makes her way to the rich fishing grounds off the coast of Alaska. As the Engineer makes his nightly rounds, ...