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Friday, January 3, 2020
After the sinking of the Scandies Rose
After the sinking of the Scandies Rose, a harrowing search, 2 survivors and an aftermath of anguish
Evan Bush
Seattle Times staff reporters
Before Alaska crabber Brock Rainey headed out to start a new
season, he checked in with his longtime friend Mike Daily. This winter
was no different. “Tossing lines for the Bering Sea today…Love you brother,”
Rainey texted in the hours before the boat he crewed on — the Scandies
Rose — left Kodiak on Monday. The 130-foot vessel never reached its next port. The boat capsized and sank New Year’s Eve
near Sutwik Island off the Alaska Peninsula. A Coast Guard helicopter
crew rescued two crew members — including a man from Edmonds. Rainey and four others, including two men from Washington, were not
found during a 20-hour search that was called off Wednesday night.
Brock Rainey, a crew member on the Scandies Rose, is missing. (Courtesy of Ashley Boggs via AP)
The boat had years of experience working the Alaska snow crab and
king crab harvests, and also fished for Pacific cod. Family and friends
who had hoped for another successful year are now grieving. “I fished in my early 20s, and we know the risks,” Daily said
Thursday. “But it is incomprehensible to think that it is a friend who
has been lost.”
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The Scandies Rose’s co-owner, Dan Mattsen, said the boat was managed
out of Seattle and home-ported in Dutch Harbor, in Alaska’s Aleutian
Islands. The crew was identified Thursday by the Coast Guard. The boat was skippered by Gary Cobban Jr., who his younger sister,
Deanna Cobban, described as from a family of Kodiak, Alaska, crabbers.
He was identified as among the missing along with his son, David Cobban,
of Kodiak, Rainey, who lived in Idaho, and Arthur Ganacias and Seth
Rousseau-Gano, both from Washington. The two survivors are Dean Gribble Jr., of Edmonds and John Lawler, of Alaska. They were treated at Providence Kodiak Medical Center and released
Wednesday, according to Carlie Franz, a senior communications specialist
at the hospital. Gribble and Lawler fought hard to survive, according to Gribble’s
father, Dean Gribble Sr., an Alaska crab-boat captain, who said his son
was now back in Washington state.
Dean Gribble Jr., one of two crew members who
survived the New Year’s Eve sinking of the Scandies Rose. This photo was
taken in 2019 on another boat during the king crab season. (Courtesy of
Dean Gribble Sr. )
Dean Gribble Sr. said his son told him the boat went down fast. His
son and Lawler, after they put on their survival suits, were knocked off
the boat by a wave. They made their way into the life raft, which was
released as the boat sank, said Gribble Sr.
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Lawler, reached Thursday, said, “It’s pretty terrible.” He declined
to say more, explaining he needed more time before talking about what
happened. Empty life raft The Coast Guard responded to a mayday call from the boat around 10
p.m. Tuesday. Coast Guard officials describe a harrowing search and
rescue effort in rough seas and strong winds. Aircraft were deployed out
of Air Station Kodiak to an area some 180 miles to the southwest, near
Sutwik Island off the Alaska Peninsula.
Coast Guard crew involved in the rescue told the Kodiak Daily Mirror they did not see the boat, nor any debris.
They spotted two life rafts. One
had a blinking light but was found to be empty. They found a second raft
a half-mile away, around 2 a.m. Wednesday. Gribble and Lawler, in the
raft for four hours, were wearing survival suits.
“They were ambulatory. They didn’t
have any medical issues, they were just severely hypothermic,” Coast
Guard rescue swimmer Evan Grills told the Daily Mirror.
Grills was lowered from a helicopter to help Gribble and Lawler into a hoist.
Lt. Kevin Knaup, a HC-130 Hercules aircraft commander, told the Daily Mirror, “Everything
was working against being able to find these two people.” Wind gusts of
up to 57 mph and 20- to 30-foot seas, Knaup said. It was 10 degrees,
with a wind chill of -4.
National Weather Service marine forecasts for the area where the
Scandies Rose went down predicted heavy freezing spray, which can coat a
boat and the pots stacked on it with ice. The added weight can make a
vessel more unstable, so crews work to knock off the ice.
“He was my main guy”
The boat’s sinking has created an anguished start to the new year.
Daily said his friend Brock Rainey was a Marine vet
who loved motorcycles and was always willing to reach out to others to
lend a hand. He had fished crab for years off Alaska, and in his Monday
text messages, expressed no concern about the upcoming voyage to start
harvesting cod and crab in the Bering Sea. “When I sent a note that said I love you, he sent me back a thumbs
up,”said Daily, in an interview from his home in Maui, Hawaii. Rousseau-Gano lived in the Silverdale area. He had a “wild and free
personality,” read a statement from his family. “He had a huge heart and
was a bright light for so many.”
Rousseau-Gano’s fishing career included two seasons — 2018 and 2019 —
working out of Westport, Washington, harvesting Dungeness aboard the
Robin Blue. “He really loved the lifestyle. He would work real hard, save up his
money and then go travel,” said Zed Blue, the boat’s owner and skipper.
“He was my main guy.”
Seth Rousseau-Gano aboard the Robin Blue in 2019. (Courtesy of Zed Blue )
Blue said Rousseau-Gano worked aboard a salmon boat this summer in
Bristol Bay, and while there got an offer to crew during crab season on
the Scandies Rose. Blue got a call from Rousseau-Gano asking whether he should take the job. He gave an answer that now brings some regret. “I totally endorsed it. It was a really nice boat with a really good skipper,” Blue recalled.
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