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Report: Fatigue, fog were factors in 2012 vessel crash that killed Port Angeles man
The 40-foot Maverick, homeported in LaPush, and 90-foot Viking Storm, out of Vancouver, B.C., collided in heavy fog 35 miles west of LaPush at about 4:30 a.m. Sept. 28, 2012. Three of the four crew members of the Maverick abandoned the rapidly sinking vessel before it sank and were rescued by the crew of the Viking Storm crew within five minutes. The survivors were taken ashore in a U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat. Read more@penninsuladailynews cbcnews 23:11
Fatal boat collision in dense fog off Wash. coast – 40-foot fishing boat Maverick was drifting when it was hit and sunk by the 90-foot fishing boat Viking Storm,
SEATTLE —
The fog was very thick at 4:30 Friday morning 30 miles off the Washington coast where the 40-foot fishing boat Maverick was drifting when it was hit and sunk by the 90-foot fishing boat Viking Storm, the Coast Guard said.
Exactly how the collision happened is the subject of a Coast Guard investigation that will likely take months, but the Maverick went down quickly, and only three of the four people on board survived.
“It was very, very thick fog – visibility about 40-foot,” Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Denning, chief of marine investigation in Seattle, said Monday. “Visibility was certainly an issue.”
The bigger boat hit the smaller boat on the left side toward the front, Denning said.
The missing crewman, Kelly Dickerson, was in a room in the forward part of the ship and the Maverick sank bow first.
“He was trapped,” Denning said.
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