TUNTUTULIAK, Alaska (AP) – The body of a southwest Alaska man has been recovered from the Kuskokwim River.
Alaska State Troopers say the remains of 29-year-old Patrick Nick of Tuntutuliak were found Monday by a boater near the site where searchers found Nick’s boat overturned on Sept. 5.
Troopers in Bethel at about 12:45 a.m. Sept. 4 received a report that Nick’s 20-foot riverboat was taking on water upstream of his village.
The Coast Guard joined local searchers looking for Nick.
Searchers a day later found his overturned boat in deep water upstream of Tuntutuliak.
Tuntutuliak is 40 miles southwest of Bethel and 440 miles southwest of Anchorage.
