Crew of Zuckerberg yacht did not hear radio call to assist boat, Meta says

Mark Zuckerberg was not on the yacht at the time of the incident, his spokesperson said. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The crew of a yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg did not hear a radio call for a maritime assist from a small skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, and by the time it did, another nearby ship had already rendered assistance, a spokesperson for the Meta CEO said.

The Alaska Beacon news outlet reported that the skiff had issued a call for assistance through the US Coast Guard last week and a nearby small cruise ship, the Wilderness Legacy, towed it into nearby Farragut Bay in south-east Alaska and refueled it.