Boat tragedy: Dog found alive a month later
A labrador retriever has been found alive on an isolated cove of an Alaskan island, more than a month after its owner was given up for dead when his boat sank in rough seas.
Two local fishermen found the dog, named Brick, on Heceta Island several miles from the accident.
The men had known the dog’s owner who went down with his boat in late January.
The dog swam to the men’s boat and was hauled aboard – underweight, with an injured leg, fur matted with tree sap, but wiggling with joy, according to friends of the fishermen.
The discovery of the eight-year-old dog last week sent a shock through the close-knit rain forest community of mariners and loggers, who had given up hope of finding Greg Clark, 48.
“I was blown away,” said John Pugh, a friend of Clark who has custody of the animal.
Clark was lost after his 32ft boat broke apart on January 22 on rocks near the west side of the island, among a cluster of islands within the 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest.
