JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 58-year-old man with an ankle injury from the fishing vessel New Dawn, in the vicinity of Shelikof Strait, Sunday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the man and transported him to awaiting EMS personnel in Kodiak. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard […]
Two boaters perished and two were taken to the Seward Hospital after an incident outside of Resurrection Bay on Saturday afternoon, it was reported on the trooper dispatch. Alaska State Troopers in Seward were notified at 3:01 pm on Saturday afternoon, that a private fishing vessel outside of Resurrection Bay had capsized. It was reported […]
The destroyer USS Fitzgerald was involved in a collision with a merchant vessel early Saturday southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, the U.S. Navy said. The collision between the destroyer and the Philippine-flagged merchant vessel ACX Crystal happened about 2:30 a.m. local time about 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, according to the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, […]
A smallboat crew, dispatched from the Coast Guard Cutter John McCormack, and troopers responded to Vitskari Rocks near Sitka on Saturday to assist the vessel 18 Eagles after it had run aground at that location on Saturday, the USCG reported. Coast Guard Sector-Juneau picked up an alert issued on VHF channel 16 by the vessel, […]