KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — One of four crew members on a Seattle-based fishing boat died Tuesday when the vessel sank in the Gulf of Alaska.
Dr. Phil Hess at the medical center in Cordova, Alaska, says the crewman who died suffered a head trauma while exiting the boat, but it’s not clear if he died from the injury or hypothermia.
Hess says the crew was in the frigid water at least two hours before a Coast Guard helicopter rescued them.
He says the three who survived suffered hypothermia but were in stable condition late Tuesday because they wore survival suits.
