At 4:40 on Wednesday afternoon Alaska State Troopers were alerted to a fatal boat collision on the Kuskokwim River. According to AST a 119-foot tug was towing a 285-foot barge on the river near Oscarville when a 14-foot skiff collided the rear end of the barge. The skiff operator, 22-year-old Henry Alexie of Atmautluak, died […]
On Tuesday morning, Alaska State Troopers were notified that a boat with three aboard has capsized near Bethel on the Kuskokwim River. According to the incident report, one of the boaters was pulled from the river alive, but a second, identified as Brenton Napoka age 26 of Tuluksak, was deceased. The third boater, identified as […]
On Saturday afternoon, troopers received notification from Koliganek’s VPSO that a swamped boat was located on the Nushagak River near Lewis Point. When discovered, the boat was empty and had no registration numbers to identify it. Searchers responded to the area to search for a possible boater but would not find anyone. Two days later, […]
On Sunday afternoon, troopers received an alert from Napakiak that there was an overdue boat with two aboard that hadn’t arrived as scheduled at the community. A HASTY search was launched from the community and soon the community’s VPO would locate the overdue boat submerged down the river from Napakiak. Shortly thereafter, one of the […]