A 14-year-old teen was found dead in a boat in the community of Aleknagik during the early morning hours on Saturday. According to the trooper report, Nayumiralria Tugatuk, age 14, was found at 12:30 am on Saturday morning, slumped over next to an open can of gasoline in a boat. While the young teen’s remains […]
Alaska State troopers based in Seward, responded to a boat overturned approximately 50 to 75 yards offshore in the vicinity of Lowell Point, at about 8:30 PM on Monday night. When they arrived at the scene in Resurrection Bay, they found that the individuals involved in the capsizing had already been rescued by Miller’s Landing […]
Two NOAA ships, en route to scientific missions in Alaskan waters, helped locate the missing fishing vessel Destination at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation. The Destination and its six crew members were lost February 11, 2017, while fishing for snow crab northwest of St. George, Alaska. NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, […]
Coast Guard Station-Juneau diverted a small boat crew after receiving report from Lt. Joseph Schlosser, an off-duty Coast Guardsman, that a man was out in Gastineau Channel paddling in a homemade inflatable watercraft. The 25-foot RB-S crew, upon their arrival, deemed the small homemade craft unsafe even though the seas were calm with a light breeze, […]