is this big valley crab boat is good for my family summer vacation?
The tragedy was featured on Discovery Channel’s show Deadliest Catch Season 1: Disaster hits crab fishery TWO INCIDENTS: Kodiak vessel is believed to have sunk; 2 dead, 4 missing. Two people were dead and four were missing in wind-tossed waters after disaster struck two crab boats Saturday at the opening of the notoriously dangerous Bering Sea commercial snow crab fishery The U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and the crews of other fishing vessels searched for the missing crabbers late into the night Saturday. Authorities did not release any of the names of the dead and missing. The incidents involving the vessels Big Valley and Sultan add to the already long and horrid safety record for Bering Sea crabbing, identified by federal safety officials as one of the most dangerous occupations in the country. The Big Valley, a 92-foot boat based in Kodiak, was believed to have sunk Saturday morning some 70 miles west of St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands, the Coast Guard said. Of the boat