Eleven fishermen from two boats are safe after separate incidents around Kodiak Island. the first incident involved a vessel which ran aground on Portage Bay Tuesday. The second involved another, which sank south of Kodiak Island Wednesday.
Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world.