{"id":374669,"date":"2026-08-09T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374669"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:04:13","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-superyacht-alaska-cruise-ship-makes-rescue-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mark-zuckerbergs-superyacht-alaska-cruise-ship-makes-rescue-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s superyacht: Alaska cruise ship makes rescue nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the U.S. Coast Guard, Wilderness Legacy went to help a stranded skiff near Farragut Bay on August 3, towing the <strong>21-foot<\/strong> boat nine miles to sheltered water and giving it fuel after it ran out about 85 miles from Juneau.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The skiff had two women, a child, and a dog aboard. The Coast Guard sent out a marine assistance request at <strong>9:56 p.m.<\/strong>, but officials said the people on board were not considered to be in distress.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you saw the online backlash, it picked up after passenger Michael Love said the captain of Wilderness Legacy told guests that Launchpad, Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s 387-foot superyacht, hadn\u2019t responded, even though tracking data reportedly showed <strong>Launchpad<\/strong> was closer and had slowed down before Wilderness Legacy stepped in.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg said neither Zuckerberg nor Priscilla Chan\u2019s family was aboard Launchpad, and that the crew was on a different radio channel; since the Coast Guard had classified the incident as a <strong>non-distress<\/strong> call, SOLAS-style obligations were less clearly defined.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UnCruise owner Dan Blanchard said this kind of assist is common in remote Alaska, and that this was reportedly the <strong>second<\/strong> case involving a small cruise ship in two weeks; you can keep up with updates from UnCruise and the Coast Guard.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.S. Coast Guard, Wilderness Legacy went to help a stranded skiff near Farragut Bay on August 3, towing the 21-foot boat nine miles to sheltered water and giving it fuel after it ran out about 85 miles from Juneau. The skiff had two women, a child, and a dog aboard. The Coast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mark-zuckerbergs-superyacht-alaska-cruise-ship-makes-rescue-nearby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s superyacht: Alaska cruise ship makes rescue nearby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374670,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374669\/revisions\/374670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374669"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=374669"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=374669"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=374669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}