
Authorities are continuing recovery efforts after a 26-foot boat sank Wednesday near Mukilteo, leaving three people missing and one survivor.
EVERETT, Wash. — Authorities are continuing recovery efforts after a 26-foot boat sank Wednesday near Mukilteo, leaving three people missing and one survivor.
The group had launched from the Everett Marina to go shrimping when their vessel capsized northeast of Mukilteo around 1 p.m., according to the Everett Police Department. At the time, weather conditions included 1-foot seas and 6-knot winds. The water temperature was in the low 50s to high 40s.
The survivor, a man in his 50s, was rescued by a passing boater as the vessel sank with the others still aboard. He was treated for hypothermia at Providence Everett. Investigators hope he can shed light on what led to the incident.
Emergency crews responding to the scene found the vessel already “substantially submerged” several hundred feet offshore. Officials said wind and tidal conditions may have carried the boat and its occupants from the original location.
Multiple agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, conducted a large-scale search of 130-square nautical miles with a helicopter, several response vessels, dive teams, rescue swimmers and marine units.
The Coast Guard suspended its rescue operation Wednesday night. Local police continued the search Thursday, but found no additional signs of the missing.
“It’s just a very tragic outcome that we weren’t able to find anything,” Coast Guard Officer Steve Strohmaier told KING 5. “Up until slightly after sunset, we were there searching and had to call off the search.”
The missing include a man in his 60s, a man in his 20s, and a woman in her 40s. Their names have not been released.
Police said the rescued man is a coworker of the 60-year-old man, who owned the boat, and the woman. The man in his 20s is the son of the boat owner.
