Search under way in Alaska waters for 67-year-old woman reported missing from cruise ship
By APWednesday, September 23, 2009
Search under way in AK waters for ship passenger
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A search has been launched in the waters of southeast Alaska and Canada for a 67-year-old woman reported missing from a cruise ship.
The passenger, who hasn’t been identified, was noticed missing Wednesday morning when she didn’t leave the Sapphire Princess at the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Princess Cruise liner departed Ketchikan on Monday on an Inside Passage cruise. The woman wasn’t found during a search of the ship, and her personal belongings were in her state room.
The U.S. Coast Guard has sent a helicopter and boats to search from Ketchikan 86 miles south to include Dixon Entrance, Tongass Narrows and the northern end of Hecate Strait.
Canadian officials are searching from Vancouver 517 miles north to Hecate Strait.
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