NTSB Advisory
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
September 3, 2009

NTSB TO OPEN PUBLIC DOCKET ON SINKING OF ALASKA RANGER

As part of the Safety Board's investigation into the sinking of the FV Alaska Ranger in the Bering Sea, the NTSB will open the public accident docket on Friday, September 4, 2009.

On March 23, 2008, the U.S. fishing vessel, Alaska Ranger, sank in the Bering Sea, 120 nautical miles west of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Five of the 47 persons aboard the vessel died.  The wreckage lies at the bottom of the Bering Sea and was not examined. 

The information being released is factual in nature and does not provide any analysis. It will include investigative group factual reports, Marine Board exhibits, interview transcripts, and other documents from the investigation.  Additional material will be added to the docket as it becomes available. Analysis of the accident, along with conclusions and a determination of probable cause, will come at a later date when the final report on the investigation is completed.

This will be a document release only; no interviews will be conducted.

The docket will be made available at 9:00 a.m. (EDT) on the Safety Board's website at: http://www.ntsb.gov/Info/foia_fri-dockets.htm

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