KODIAK, Alaska — An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 23-year-old man, who was suffering from appendicitis-like symptoms, from the 950-foot cruise ship Crown Princess 95 miles west of Juneau, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the man and transported him to Juneau where he was transferred to commercial emergency medical services […]
A report went in to the Coast Guard 17thh District Command Center on Tuesday reporting a crewmember aboard the F/V Optimus had suffered a severe laceration from a fishing hook while fishing in the Gulf of Alaska. Because of the severity of the wound, the Command Center immediately ordered the launch of a MH-60 Jayhawk […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard, Kodiak Police Department and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rescued a man from a vessel adrift near Anton Larsen Bay near Kodiak Sunday.The crew of the NOAA research vessel Rainer safely towed the man and his 20-foot fishing vessel to Anton Larsen Bay after it was determined the boat was […]
2,500 persons seeking asylum, most from North Africa, were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea since Thursday, including 157 children according to the Italian government. The unusually large amount of rescues in the last 24-hours brings the total of asylum seekers to over 62,000 for the first five months of 2014, this total is more than the […]