A search for three mariners and their boat concluded successfully over the weekend in the Hooper Bay area, troopers reported on Monday. Troopers in Hooper Bay were notified of two overdue boats off of the coast near Hooper Bay at 10 minutes after midnight on Saturday morning. Within an hour of the initial report, one […]
Alaska State Troopers and a Maritme helicopter successfully rescued two boaters that had swamped in their boat on the Koyukuk River on Wednesday. The AST-Cold Foot Post received the report of the two stranded boaters on Wednesday and a trooper with that post departed via state aircraft and was able to locate the boaters who were […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued six hunters from two 22-foot skiffs approximately four miles north of Singeak early Wednesday morning. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted three boaters from one skiff cut off from open water by ice. The aircrew then picked up the other three hunters from land and transported […]
Troopers in Northwest Alaska are reminding travelers to make sure that they travel with an adequate supply of fuel following a successful search and rescue operation that ended on the Kobuk River on early Wednesday morning. It was at 10:35 pm on Tuesday that the Alaska State Troopers an the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and […]