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[naviga:h3]Alaska fishermen saved from ship[/naviga:h3]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two ships brought 46 people to safety after they abandoned their sinking fishing boat and boarded life rafts off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

There were no reports of any injuries as the good Samaritan vessels rescued the crew members Tuesday evening.

The ships then began a 13-hour voyage to port in Adak, Alaska.

When the 220-foot Alaska Juris started taking on water Tuesday, all crew members donned survival suits and got into three rafts.

The Spar Canis and the Vienna Express rushed to the scene in response to the Coast Guard’s emergency broadcast for help, as did two other vessels.

[naviga:h3]Investigators give Tesla crash report[/naviga:h3]

WASHINGTON — The driver killed when his Tesla sedan crashed while in self-driving mode was traveling at 9 mph above the speed limit just before hitting the side of a tractor-trailer, federal accident investigators said Tuesday.

Data downloaded from the Tesla Model S shows the vehicle was traveling at 74 mph in a 65-mph zone on a divided highway in Williston, Fla., the National Transportation Safety Board said.

The driver, Joshua Brown, 40, a tech company owner from Canton, Ohio, was using the sedan’s cruise control and lane-keeping features at the time, the report said. Those features are part of the vehicle’s Autopilot self-driving system, but the NTSB report doesn’t mention the system.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration previously said the Autopilot was engaged.

The Tesla’s roof struck the underside of the truck’s semitrailer at a 90-degree angle, shearing off the sedan’s roof before it emerged on the other side of the trailer.

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