Meta explained why Zuckerberg's yacht did not respond to a call near Alaska
The crew of the yacht Launchpad, owned by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, initially did not hear a distress call from a small boat that had run out of fuel off the coast of Alaska. When the crew checked the U.S. Coast Guard’s transmission on another radio channel, another vessel was already providing assistance, a Meta spokesperson said.
According to The Guardian, citing the Alaska Beacon, the small boat called the U.S. Coast Guard for help last week. The small cruise ship Wilderness Legacy towed it to Farragut Bay in southeastern Alaska and refueled it.
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The yacht Launchpad was closer to the boat but did not respond to the distress call. A Meta spokesperson also noted in an email that Mark Zuckerberg and his family were not on board during the incident.
According to the company representative, the Coast Guard did not consider the boat to be in distress. Earlier, a passenger on the Wilderness Legacy posted on social media that authorities had contacted Zuckerberg’s yacht via radio, and its crew allegedly refused to respond on multiple occasions. Meta denied this, stating that assistance was already underway at the time the report was verified.
