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Crew member missing from local vessel
Friday, December 07, 2007 | 3 comment(s)
A man fell overboard this morning from a fishing vessel about 10 miles north of the Siuslaw River mouth.
According to a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman, at about 7:30 a.m., two 47-foot lifeboats and two helicopters were dispatched to assist the Zora Belle, a fishing vessel operating out of Charleston. At press time, the lifeboats and helicopters had contacted the vessel, the spokesman said, but there was no information about who had fallen overboard.
Ocean conditions at the time of the incident were poor, fishermen and processors said, with winds out of the north and northwest at about 30 miles per hour, choppy seas and rain.
The Zora Belle is registered to B&J Fisheries Inc. out of Atascadero, Calif., but is run by Craig Stoltz and fishes out of Charleston, processors say.
“It’s a first-rate operation,” Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission Executive Director Nick Furman said today, adding that under these weather conditions, it’s easy for crew to tire quickly and that’s when accidents can happen.
Other crabbers on the ocean said they heard the U.S. Coast Guard broadcast a man-overboard notice at about 7:30 this morning. The notice also said the crewman was wearing rain gear — heavy clothes and boots than can drag a person down quickly in the water.
According to a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman, at about 7:30 a.m., two 47-foot lifeboats and two helicopters were dispatched to assist the Zora Belle, a fishing vessel operating out of Charleston. At press time, the lifeboats and helicopters had contacted the vessel, the spokesman said, but there was no information about who had fallen overboard.
Ocean conditions at the time of the incident were poor, fishermen and processors said, with winds out of the north and northwest at about 30 miles per hour, choppy seas and rain.
The Zora Belle is registered to B&J Fisheries Inc. out of Atascadero, Calif., but is run by Craig Stoltz and fishes out of Charleston, processors say.
“It’s a first-rate operation,” Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission Executive Director Nick Furman said today, adding that under these weather conditions, it’s easy for crew to tire quickly and that’s when accidents can happen.
Other crabbers on the ocean said they heard the U.S. Coast Guard broadcast a man-overboard notice at about 7:30 this morning. The notice also said the crewman was wearing rain gear — heavy clothes and boots than can drag a person down quickly in the water.
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