The Nation - News from July 6, 1986

Six members of the crew of a 167-foot fishing boat that sank June 21 were rescued after two weeks adrift in life rafts. The U.S. Navy intelligence ship Indomitable picked up the survivors 300 miles east of Honolulu, said Coast Guard spokesman Scott Hartvigsen. One of the original group reportedly died and was buried at sea before the rescue, and the first mate of the West I, a tug converted to fish processing, remained missing. Hartvigsen said all the men, whose names were not immediately available, were in satisfactory condition. The Navy initially was reluctant to release information because of the sensitive mission of the Indomitable, a Coast Guard source said. It reportedly tows an underwater listening device from which detected signals are relayed to monitoring stations on shore via satellite.