Family Questions Coast Guard Response to Fatal Sinking

Family Questions Coast Guard Response to Fatal Sinking

The U.S. and Canadian coast guards responded to a sinking boat last week just off Point Roberts, a U.S.-controlled tip of a British Columbia peninsula in the Salish Sea, but the family of a man who died in the water said the response was inadequate.

Family questions coast guard response to fatal sinking

The family of Kevin Finkbonner is questioning why he was in the water for more than an hour before rescuers arrived to the site of the sinking near Point Roberts.