A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew delivers a dewatering pump to a vessel in distress six miles south of Icy Bay Oct. 22, 2020. The fishing vessel crew members reported taking on water and the Jayhawk aircrew delivered a dewatering pump to the vessel to assist with flooding while crews […]
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard medevaced a man from a fishing vessel Tuesday approximately 100 miles northwest of Cold Bay. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted the man at 6:55 a.m. and transferred him to awaiting emergency medical services in Cold Bay for further transport to Anchorage. Watchstanders in the […]
A 29-foot foot Response Boat-Small crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Ketchikan assisted a distressed deer swimming in Clarence Strait Oct. 17. While conducting a patrol in the area, the crew spotted the animal and reduced their speed. The deer swam to the boat and was pulled aboard before being taken to Knudson […]
Search and rescue personnel in Nome report that they located one of the victims of a capsize near Nome on Sunday afternoon. One victim remains missing. AST was advised that a 32-foot dredge had been capsized by a wave in the Nome area late in the evening of last Thursday with three aboard. According […]