A fishing crew member in Western Alaska died Friday after he was swept up in fishing gear and taken into the water, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A commercial fishing crewmember in Western Alaska died Friday after he was swept up in fishing gear and taken into the water, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
In a dispatch on Saturday, Troopers identified the victim as 21-year-old Corwin Wheeler of Wisconsin. Troopers began a rescue effort shortly after noon Friday upon receiving a mayday call from a fisherman in Kvichak Bay, a body of water near Naknek, part of the Bristol Bay Borough.By the time the Department of Public Safety’s vessel arrived at the vessel’s location, Wheeler was found and brought aboard.
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