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 […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau transferred custody of the fishing vessel Yin Yuan, a 191-foot fishing vessel seized 625 miles east of Tokyo, Japan in the North Pacific Ocean, for large-scale high seas drift net fishing, to the China coast guard vessel 2102 on Tuesday in the East China Sea. A […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 68-year-old man who fell ill aboard the 35-foot fishing vessel Northern Star docked in Point Baker on Prince of Wales Island, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew landed on a nearby beach and brought the man aboard where he was transported to Sitka […]
Although the missing persons case will remain open until she is found, the active search for 48-year-old Sharon Buis has been called off after searchers and investigators could find no new leads as to the whereabouts of the missing hiker. Search teams that included the SEADOGS, Juneau Mountain Rescue, the United States Coast Guard and […]