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Family’s Alaska fishing trip becomes nightmare with 3 dead and search over for 2 more

2 sisters and 1 of their husbands are dead, while the other’s partner and the boat captain remain missing
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This undated photo provided by James Solis shows Robert Solis, left and his partner Brandi Tyau, right. Robert Solis and Tyau were aboard the charter fishing vessel Awakin when it ran into trouble Sunday in rough seas off the coast of southeast Alaska. The bodies of three of the five people aboard have been found but two people remain missing. Authorities are working to salvage the boat, which was found partially submerged off an island near Sitka, Alaska. Those on the vessel were Solis and Tyau, Tyau’s sister and her partner and the boat captain. (James Solis via AP)

An Alaska fishing adventure became a nightmare for a family of eight when disaster struck one of the two boats they chartered over the Memorial Day weekend, leaving three people dead and two more missing despite a desperate search over hundreds of square miles of ocean.

The tragedy tore the Tyau family apart: Two sisters and one of their husbands are dead, while the other’s partner and the boat captain remain missing off southeast Alaska four days after the boat was found partially submerged off an island.

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