ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four crew members on a tugboat that sank Sunday morning in the Bering Sea are safely back on shore.
The four were aboard the 68-foot tugboat Aries when it started taking on water 109 miles east of St. Paul Island, the largest of the Pribilof Islands about 300 miles west of the Alaska mainland and 750 miles west of Anchorage
Crew members were able to make their way to the barge the tug was towing.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Jonathan Lally says an agency helicopter from Kodiak lifted the crew from the barge at 1:30 p.m. and reached St. Paul about an hour later.
The barge is anchored. Lally says a tug from Naknek should reach the barge by 2 p.m. Monday.
