The USCG responded to a call from the 178-foot passenger vessel Wilderness Discoverer that was in Glacier Bay National Park at 7:30 am on Monday and Coast Guard cutters Pike and Anthony Petit along with an Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk dispatched to assist. The Wilderness Discoverer had called in and reported that the vessel […]
Lieutenant Krag Campbell of the Juneau Police Department announced on Saturday that over the course of three days spanning Wednesday through Friday three people were found dead on the same vessel at Sandy Beach on the outskirts of Douglas on Douglas Island across the channel from Juneau. On Wednesday afternoon at approximately 2:23 pm the […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of two victims of the capsized 30-foot charter vessel near Low Island in Sitka Sound that rolled over on Sunday were recovered Wednesday evening. The remains have been tentatively identified as Danielle Agcaoili of Waipahu, Hawaii, and Brandi Tyau of Canoga Park, California. The remains were sent to […]
“Piping water into the sea is an outrage,” said one Japanese fisher angered by the plan to release radioactive wastewater into the ocean. “The sea is not a garbage dump.” Critics of a Japanese plan to release filtered radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean intensified their opposition to the proposal on Wednesday […]