July 20, 2017 — A vessel on a scientific mission has made an important deep sea discovery, officials announced Thursday.
The fishing boat Destination, a Seattle-based vessel that sank in February with six crew members aboard, was found on the ocean floor in Alaska.
The ship that found the 98-foot fishing boat was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) vessel.
People at Seattle’s Fisherman’s Terminal say the lives there were lost will be forever remembered.
“We want to know what happened,” Judy Hamick, mother of Destination crewman Kai Hamick, said. “This is a good boat. Why did this have to happen? Knowing that they found the boat is relief, but we know we still don’t have any bodies to recover.”
The Coast Guard hopes to provide those answers to the Hamicks and other families since NOAA has helped located the vessel off St. George, Ala. The boat was found not far from where it went missing on February 11 while fishing for snow crab.