F/V Destination, Missing Alaska Crab Boat, Based in Seattle, Photo at Fishermen’s Terminal Seattle Ship Canal Loading Gear on the West Wall, Summer Time, Sunny Happy Crew! Original Photography, by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Salty Sea Gal, Salty Dog Marine Traffic Source PNW to AK Up & Down Hill – God Bless our Fishermen!

F/V Destination, 98 ft. Alaska Bering Sea Crabber Missing and Sank, in the heart of winter, February 2017. Some of the Destination’s crewmembers last meal on land was pizza at the Norwegian Rat Saloon in Dutch Harbor. Top of the morning on Friday, February 10, 2017 the boat departed from St. Paul Island, a small Pribilof Island in this winters harsh Bering Sea of Alaska.

F/V Destination, AK Crab Boat, In Dutch Harbor Alaska get to the Norwegian Rat Saloon, they’ve organized an F/V Destination auction and fundraiser Memorial Fund, Thank you: Trident Seafoods, Unisea, Aleutian Expediter, CAT, F/V Fierce Allegiance, F/V Trojan, F/v Western Dawn, F/V Cornelia Marie, F/V Blue North, F/V Nordic Star, F/V Westward 1, F/V Pacific Fury, F/V Seeker, Lunde North, Harbor Welding & much more…. THANK YOU! RIP DESTINATION, Salty Dog Boating News Will Miss Seeing Ya’ll in the Ship Canal!

If you’re in Dutch Harbor Alaska get to the Norwegian Rat Saloon, they’ve organized an F/V Destination auction and fundraiser Memorial Fund on Saint Patrick’s Day, Friday, March 17, 2017. Many thank yous’ to all the fisheries, companies, fishermen and loved ones who have generously donated auction items. There will be a collection box at the bar for anyone stopping in. Support our fishermen and their families in this great time of tragic loss.

F/V Destination, Seattle Crab Boat Missing, Summer Shot of UW Husky Crew Rowing Coach, Lots of yelling sounds like crabbers, Seattle Ship Canal, Original Photography, by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Salty Sea Gal, Salty Dog Marine Traffic Source PNW to AK Up & Down Hill

Recap of events leading up to the missing F/V Destination: By the following morning Saturday, February 11, 2017 – the Destination was missing and unaccounted for 2 miles off St. George Island, also a Pribilof Island.  The Coast Guard, USCG received an emergency location radio transmission transmitter when it’s hitting saltwater. USCG found the emergency location beacon floating an oil slick, a life ring and buoys.

F/V Destination, Seattle Ship Canal, Seattle Based AK Bering Sea Crabber, Sank Feb. 2017, RIP DESTINATION: Original Photography, by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Salty Sea Gal, Salty Dog Marine Traffic Source PNW to AK Up & Down Hill, God Bless our Fishermen!

Destination’s failure to get out a ‘mayday’ – no life boats, no fishermen found in the sea, all point to major rapid tragedy. The lack of debris, the failure to make a mayday call, the absence of lifeboats or mariners in survival suits pointed to a sudden catastrophe and rapid at sea disaster. These seasoned fishermen seem to have been take by the sea very quickly without notice of the destruction allowing distress communication. Many suspect the F/V Destination must have ‘rolled over and the crew is still on board the Destination underwater.’

F/V Destination, AK Bering Sea Crab Boat, Pre-Season Loading, Seattle Ship Canal Fishermen’s Terminal West Wall, Destination went missing and unaccounted for 2 miles off St. George Island, also a Pribilof Island, RIP DESTINATION, Original Photography, by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Salty Sea Gal, Salty Dog Marine Traffic Source PNW to AK Up & Down Hill

Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers, know all about getting on the crab grounds and how truly dangerous it is. 750 to 850 pound crab pots, coiled lines in hundreds of feet, heavy bait, lots of buoys, fueled up and weighed down voyaging out to go to work in the Bering Sea. The Destination was loaded and ready to get on the herd.

Capsizing a fully loaded crab boat is brought on by many factors; some speculate that the boat most likely iced up from sea spray freezing in 20-degree temperatures. The Destination had three tanks for holding crab; the pumps keep water circulating to them. If a pump shut down or malfunctioned and or the alarm system(s) didn’t go off, it could have caused a slack tank. A slack tank is a fishermen’s night meme, meaning – partially emptied of water that provides stability. If a massive wave hits with a slack tank(s), and the boat rolls in one direction, a slack tank makes it harder to recover.

F/V Destination, Alaska Crab Boat Missing, Destination Seattle Based Crab Boat, Seattle Ship Canal East of the Ballard Bridge, Original Photography, by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Salty Sea Gal, Salty Dog Marine Traffic Source PNW to AK Up & Down Hill

We all send our prayers to the family, children and loved one’s of the F/V Destination. The cause of this winter Bering Sea tragedy may likely will never be known. God Bless our fishermen & their families.

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