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Names of crew released
In the afternoon of Jan 2 the US Coast Guard released the names Tof the two survivors and five missing crew from the 'Scandies Rose'. The five missing included Gary Cobban Jr. and his son David Cobban who both resided in Kodiak. Gary Cobban Jr. was the skipper, and a third-generation Alaska crabber. The three other missing crew members were Brock Rainey, Arthur Ganacias and Seth Rousseau-Gano. Rainey lived in Idaho; Ganacias and Rousseau-Gano were from Washington. The two who survived are John Lawler, of Alaska, and Dean Gribble Jr., who is from Washington. They were taken to Providence Kodiak Medical Center and released on Jan 1. After a mayday call went out on Dec 31 about 10 p.m. a Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted Lawler and Gribble, who were wearing survival suits, from a life raft. The search for other survivors was suspended in the night of Jan 1, after 20 hours. It involved four Jayhawk helicopter crews, two HC-130 Hercules airplane crews and the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon.
Search for five missing crew members suspended
US Coast Guard crews were searching for five people in the water on Jan 1, 2020, after the 'Scandies Rose' sank following a water ingress enroute to Dutch Harbor near Sutwik Island, Alaska on Dec 31, 2019, with seven crew members aboard. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Communications Detachment Kodiak received a mayday call from the 'Scandies Rose' over HF 4125 KHz at approximately 10:00 p.m. and immediately relayed the distress call to the command center for search and rescue coordination. Two survivors were rescued and taken to Kodiak hspital for treatment, the five more were still missing. The second life raft was found empty. The vessel’s last known position was 170 miles southwest of Air Station Kodiak. MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and HC-130 Hercules airplane crews launched from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak. The Jayhawk helicopter crew arrived on scene and hoisted two survivors from a life raft. The Coast Guard Cutter 'Mellon (WHEC 717)' was diverted from the Bering Sea and is expected to arrive on scene in the evening of Jan 1 and were conducting an extensive search in a 300-square mile area to locate the five missing persons. The weather on scene is in excess of 40 mph winds, 15 to 20 foot seas and one mile visibility. The search was suspended after over 20 hours, covering 1,400 square miles and including four MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews, two HC-130 Hercules airplane crews and the 'Mellon' in the evening of Jan 1.
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