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The Coast Guard says Michael Diverty's 32-foot vessel was found aground and still running in Fish Bay. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard/KTUU-DT)by Channel 2 News staff
Sunday, October 25, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a Sitka fisherman believed to have fallen off his boat on Friday.
Officials say Michael Diverty's 32-foot boat was found grounded and still running about 20 miles north of Sitka.
The Coast Guard believes Diverty fell off his boat somewhere in Fish Bay.
Diverty, a man in his mid-fifties, was last seen leaving Sitka at noon Friday by the crew of the fishing vessel Brant, the same crew that found his boat.
The Coast Guard has been searching for Diverty since friday. Alaska State Troopers did an investigation aboard the abandoned boat and a Sitka mountain rescue team searched the shoreline.
"Throughout Saturday, we've had two helicopter searches and on-the-water searches done by both the coast guard cutter Naushon and the fishing vessel Brant, who was the original vessel that reported the missing fisherman," said the Coast Guard's David Mosley.
The water temperature in Fish Bay is between 40 and 45 degrees.
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