Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has agreed to a long-term preferential berthing agreement to use the facilities for their port of call in the Greater Ketchikan area. The Mill at Ward Cove is a development by Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC to build a two-berth cruise ship dock and corresponding Welcome Center and Passenger Transit Facility in Ward Cove, near Ketchikan. Our season runs from mid-May to mid-September and wages/work schedules vary by department. College and high school students, retirees, anyone looking for seasonal employment is welcome to apply! Don’t let that fool you, though! Our crew is made up of a wide range of people with varied work experience. Many prominent Alaskans got their first job working at the Binkley family’s river and mining tours.

Our crew members can expect to meet people from all over the world, learn the in’s and out’s of the Alaska tourism industry, and so much more. The Riverboat Discovery is one of the longest running tour operations in the state of Alaska and Gold Dredge 8 has amazing historical significance as it is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2021, six people were killed on Sulawesi Island after an illegal gold mine collapsed.Īt least 16 people were killed two years earlier when another illegal gold mine on the island collapsed and buried the workers.Riverboat Discovery & Gold Dredge 8 (Fairbanks) The Mill at Ward Cove (Ketchikan)įounded and run by the Binkley family, the Riverboat Discovery and Gold Dredge 8 are Interior Alaska’s premier workplaces for seasonal employment. The suspects, including one who remains at large, face up to five years in prison and 100 billion rupiah ($6.6 million) in fines. On Friday police charged four people with allegedly operating the mine without a permit. Most of the trapped miners had moved from West Java to mine in the region, police said. Sudarsa said the rescue effort would continue until Tuesday in the hope of retrieving the miners' bodies, which are yet to be found.Īuthorities had planned to deploy divers to find the miners but local rescue official Priyo Prayudha Utama told AFP 'it was not possible' because the mine shaft was too narrow. We expect the bad news that the victims have died,' local search and rescue agency head Adah Sudarsa told reporters Sunday. Rescuers had deployed water pumps around the clock and worked to dam a nearby river in a frantic bid to get the water out of the mining shaft but it remained flooded on Sunday.

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