Officials say two Good Samaritan vessels have rescued 46 people who abandoned a fishing boat in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Lauren Steenson says there were no reports of any injuries as the crew members were transferred from life rafts to the vessels in a fairly calm Bering Sea.
She says the ships then embarked on a 13-hour voyage to Adak, Alaska, a port in the Aleutians.
The Good Samaritan ships Spar Canis and the Vienna Express rushed to the scene as did two other merchant vessels, all responding to a Coast Guard's emergency broadcast for help.
When the 220-foot Alaska Juris started taking on water Tuesday morning, all crew members donned survival suits and got into three rafts.
The trouble occurred about 1,110 kilometres west of Dutch Harbor, one of America's busiest fishing ports.
