JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard aircrew hoisted three people stranded on a beach near Cape Resurrection, Friday. The Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, forward deployed to Cordova, transported all three people to waiting emergency medical service personnel at the Seward Airport. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage watchstanders received a call at 11:47 a.m. over […]
Alaska Wildlife troopers report no injuries after a 40-foot commercial troll vessel began sinking and rolling over outside of the Sitka Harbor on Saturday. Sitka Post AWT aboard the P/V Courage responded to a distress call issued by Calvin “Mark” Bigelow on the F/V Safari reporting that his vessel was “partially capsized and rapidly sinking” near […]
An investigation into the sinking of the 58-foot F/V Pacific Knight near Clark’s Point in Bristol Bay, Alaska – an incident in which one crew member was lost, while two others were rescued by good Samaritans from the F/V Amanda C – is underway. According to the US Coast Guard an estimated 800 gallons of […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard has suspended their search for a man reportedly missing after the fishing vessel he was on capsized with two other people aboard in Nushagak Bay, south of Dillingham, Wednesday. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, Alaska State Trooper personnel and good Samaritans searched the area since the initial notification […]