AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Zuckerberg's $300 million superyacht accused of ignoring Coast Guard call for stranded boat in Alaska
Mark Zuckerberg's 387-foot superyacht sat idle off the Alaska coast while a small cruise ship sailed past it to rescue a stranded skiff, and passengers aboard the rescue vessel booed when they heard what happened. The incident unfolded on the night of August 3 near Farragut Bay in Southeast Alaska. A 21-foot skiff traveling between […] The post Zuckerberg's $300 million superyacht accused of ignoring Coast Guard call for stranded boat in Alaska appeared first on American Almanac .
Mark Zuckerberg's 387-foot superyacht sat idle off the Alaska coast while a small cruise ship sailed past it to rescue a stranded skiff, and passengers aboard the rescue vessel booed when they heard what happened. The incident unfolded on the night of August 3 near Farragut Bay in Southeast Alaska. A 21-foot skiff traveling between Petersburg and Juneau ran out of fuel and contacted the U.S. Coast Guard around 9:30 p.m. About thirty minutes later, the Coast Guard broadcast a marine assistance request to nearby vessels. Zuckerberg's superyacht, the Launchpad, was closer to the stranded boat than any other ship in the area, but its crew never answered. Instead, a far smaller vessel did what the Launchpad did not. The Wilderness Legacy, an…Open