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Coast Guard Repatriates Alaska Native Remains at Point Spencer

By Petty Officer 1st Class Nate Littlejohn | USCG on Oct 4, 2021 Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural, U.S. Coast Guard-Alaska

A plane carrying a box of delicately-packaged, unidentified human remains touched down on a dirt runway at Point Spencer, Aug. 12, 2021. A startled musk ox kicked up clouds of dust as it galloped against a Bering Sea backdrop. Coast Guard physical scientist Ian Putnam disembarked and breathed the 37-degree summer air with a solemn […]

Coast Guard Works to make Catch Less Deadly in 2021

By Petty Officer 1st Class Nate Littlejohn | USCG on Dec 21, 2020 At Sea, Featured, General News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Within the commercial crab fishing fleet of Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) sail some of the most widely admired and respected fishermen on earth. An international audience has peered through the window to their world on the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch—Season 3 of the TV show alone attracted more than […]