KODIAK, Alaska – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returned to Kodiak Wednesday, following a 90-day deployment patrolling more than 18,000 nautical miles throughout the Pacific Ocean, including transits through the Aleutian Islands, Tokyo Bay and the Sea of Japan. Alex Haley’s crew departed Kodiak on May 3rd and transited to Yokohama, […]
KODIAK — Coast Station Ketchikan personnel medevaced a man from a vessel 34 miles southeast of Ketchikan, Monday. A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew transited to the 65-foot pleasure craft Lady Crystal and took the 74-year-old man aboard the RB-M. He was safely transported to Ketchikan where awaiting emergency medical services personnel took him to Peace […]
JUNEAU — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew responded to 11 people in the water from an overturned canoe in the vicinity of Glacier Point, nine miles south of Haines, Monday. Sector Juneau command center watchstanders received a report of an unconscious person in the water near Glacier Point and diverted […]
On Saturday, Alaska State Troopers were alerted of an overdue vessel with two adults and four children that had gone missing after they failed to return the night before. In turn, AST alerted the U.S. Coast Guard of the overdue craft. Troopers in Emmonak were informed at 9:45 am on Saturday that a boat had […]