JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard recognizes the successes of Alaska’s boating safety program with an 80 percent drop in recreational boating fatalities since HB108, Use, Regulation and Operation of Boats, was introduced in 1998. Boating safety has come a long way since 1998 when there were 38 fatalities; in 2014 Alaska reported seven fatalities. Alaska’s […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a 70-year-old man with an eye injury from Noyes Island approximately 34 miles from Klawock Tuesday. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka transported the man to awaiting medical personnel in Sitka. Sector Juneau command center personnel received the request for medevac from the crew of […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau transferred custody of the fishing vessel Yin Yuan, a 191-foot fishing vessel seized 625 miles east of Tokyo, Japan in the North Pacific Ocean, for large-scale high seas drift net fishing, to the China coast guard vessel 2102 on Tuesday in the East China Sea. A […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 28-year-old man, who was suffering from appendicitis-like symptoms,from the 751-foot bulk carrier TW Manila, 125 miles south of Dutch Harbor, Monday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the man and transported him to Dutch Harbor where he was met by commercial emergency […]