homework - Boat sinks off Alaskan Coast

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Story:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (4/20/2010) — The captain of a commercial fishing boat who died when the boat sank in the Gulf of Alaska had been nervous about the amount of cargo the boat was carrying, one of the surviving crewmen said. The boat's name was the Northern Belle.

Robert Jack said Wednesday that the 75-foot boat was so low in the water that Captain Robert Royer decided to take a slower route north to Alaska, avoiding the roughest water by staying close to shore.

"He was scared of that load," said Jack

Jack, 52, told The Associated Press that Royer's decision to make a last-second mayday call before their boat sank likely saved the lives of his crew, but may have cost him his.

Jack said the boat's automatic emergency GPS locating system did not activate. So Captain Royer, rather than immediately jumping ship with the others, stayed in the wheelhouse to make a mayday call and give their position to the Coast Guard. Otherwise nobody would have known that the boat sank or where they were in the ocean.

Then as he was finally jumping off the sinking boat, something hit Captain Royer in the head.

Jack and two other crew members, Nicole Esau, 36, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Todd Knivila, 48, of Seattle, spent more than three hours in the frigid water but were hoisted to safety by a Coast Guard helicopter. Royer showed no vital signs when he was picked up.

The crew said that the boat probably sank because it was overloaded.

Questions:

1) Where did this story take place?

2) When did this story take place?

3) How many people were on the boat?

4) How many people survived?

5) What are the names of the survivors?

6) How did the Captain save the lives of the other people on the boat?

7) Why did the boat sink?

8) How many hours were the people in the cold water?

9) What was the name of the boat?

Info from AP. Video from MSNBC.