KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Station Ketchikan Response Boat-Small crew rescued two boaters after their 53-foot vessel Freedom capsized in Tongass Narrows near Ketchikan, Wednesday morning. The Ketchikan boatcrew recovered the two mariners and transferred them to shore. Coast Guard Sector Juneau command center watchstanders received notification from a 911 emergency call center reporting […]
NOAA, with assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard, will manage the historic wreck ofDiamond Shoal Lightship No. 71, the only American lightship to be sunk by enemy action during World War I. The two agencies signed a formal agreement between NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the Coast Guard’s Historian’s Office last month. Built […]
A Cessna 180 was practicing touch and gos on a remote gravel bar 23 miles north of Gustavus on Wednesday evening when the aircraft hit a dip on the gravel bar and the aircraft suffered a prop strike, flipping the aircraft over. Ketchikan State Troopers received a call from the International Rescue Coordination Center reporting […]
WARRENTON, Ore. — The crew of a fishing vessel rescued two men from the water near buoy 24 in Grays Harbor, Washington, Sunday. The men, one 72-year-old and one 53-year-old, both Tacoma residents, were safely transferred to a Coast Guard Station Grays Harbor crew aboard a 25-foot Response Boat-Small, and taken to the station where they […]