On January 29, 1989, Daniel Frank McDonald, age 37, was a passenger aboard the 98-foot steel crab fishing vessel, the Vestfjord. The ship was en route from Seattle to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, when it encountered a severe storm. The vessel and its six-person crew were lost approximately 30 miles south of the Trinity Islands, just west of Kodiak Island.
The Vestfjord sent out a mayday signal, reporting that the vessel was sinking due to the weight of accumulating ice. At the time of the dist
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