
A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that had run out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau. Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht reportedly was closer to the crippled vessel but ignored calls for help.
The Alaska Beacon reports that Michael Love, a passenger aboard the small cruise ship that rescued the stranded boat, described the incident on social media. What caught his attention most, he said, was when the ship’s captain announced that a nearby yacht belonging to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was closer to the stranded boat but had not answered the radio call for help.
“There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this,” Love wrote in a post on the social media platform Bluesky.
Vessel tracking data from the area supports part of that account. The tracking shows the $300 million, 387-foot superyacht Launchpad slowing to a halt outside Farragut Bay while the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy travels around and past the Launchpad, stops near the apparent location of the skiff, and tows it into sheltered Farragut Bay.
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