Search suspended after no sign of sunken vessel’s missing crew members

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for two people who went missing Tuesday after their ship sank north of Unalaska.

Coast Guard officials made the announcement Thursday evening after a cutter, a helicopter crew, and several volunteer vessels spent more than 40 hours looking for the crew members of the sunken motor vessel Exito.

The ship went down late Tuesday night with five people onboard.

Within an hour, three were rescued by a good Samaritan vessel. But there’s been no sign of the two remaining crew members, whose identities have not been made public.

The Coast Guard is now investigating why the Exito began taking on water. Officials say there’s no indication of pollution as result of the sinking.

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