ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Coast Guard team investigating the sinking of the fishing vessel Arctic Rose gathered more clues from a remote-controlled camera during a second expedition to the Bering Sea site where the boat went down.
Despite rough seas that caused problems for operators of the video camera, investigators could see portions of the ship not seen during the last effort, including an open watertight door between the deck and the fish-processing area.
"We got some very good video this time — not everything we wanted, but a great deal of it," Capt. Ron Morris said Sunday in a telephone interview from aboard a fishing vessel chartered for the probe. Morris is chairman of the panel investigating the tragedy.
The 92-foot Arctic Rose sank suddenly April 2, 775 miles southwest of Anchorage. All 15 men on board were killed. It was the worst U.S. commercial fishing disaster in 50 years.