Coast Guard District 17 headquarters said today that next of kin of the five persons missing in the sinking of the F/V Wind Walker early Sunday have been notified, and the agency released the names this afternoon: Travis Kapp, Jacob Hannah, Alex Ireland, Emilio Celaya-Talamanter and Michael Brown.
Their ages and hometowns were not available.
No signs of survivors from the Sitka-based fishing boat were found in the more than 24 hours of searching by the Coast Guard, good Samaritans and the Alaska state ferry Hubbard, which was first at the site 25 miles southwest of Juneau where the boat went down.
Three of the seven survival suits pulled from the water have markings on them indicating they belonged to the Wind Walker, the Coast Guard said. Also found in the search area were two strobe lights.
