KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard air and surface crews suspended their search for a 40-year-old female passenger who went overboard from a cruise ship in Lynn Canal Tuesday morning. Coast Guard rescue crews conducted over nine hours of air and surface searches, which covered 68 square nautical miles. “Despite our best efforts to locate the individual, it […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medevaced a woman Wednesday from a cruise ship in Chatham Strait, near Sitka. The aircrew retrieved the woman at approximately 10 a.m. and transferred her to Sitka, for further transport to a higher level of care. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Juneau Command Center […]
JUNEAU – Alaska’s tourism industry was dealt a blow last week as the government of Canada announced the prohibition of all cruise vessels in Canadian waters through February 2022. Many cruise ships that visit the Inside Passage are based in foreign countries, and federal law (The Passenger Service Vessel Act of 1886) requires foreign-flagged ships […]
Five people are reported dead and one other missing following a mid-air collision of two aircraft carrying sight-seers near Ketchikan on Monday. Ten of 11 persons aboard a de Havilland Otter DHC-3 were transported to the Ketchikan hospital after that aircraft and a single-engine de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver impacted over George Inlet after a […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a woman from the cruise ship Celebrity Solstice near Noyes Island, west of Craig, Wednesday. The Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted the 61-year-old woman and transported her to Ketchikan, Alaska, where a Guardian Flight crew was waiting for transport to higher medical care. Coast Guard Sector […]
Ketchikan police say that a man from that city turned himself in for the murder of another Ketchikan man on Friday afternoon. Police were called to perform a welfare check on 55-year-old Richard Branda by a caller that has not been publicly identified. The4 Police went to the area at the cruise ship docks near […]
On Sunday afternoon, a DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver crashed into Big Goat Lake on take-off, it was reported in the trooper dispatch on Monday. The “Beaver,” flown by 30-year-old Matthew B. Perron, had taken six passengers, from a cruise line that was docked in Ketchikan. The flight had gone to the popular sight-seeing destination in the […]
[cycloneslider id=”arctic-chinook-2016″] (Hover over slide to pause slideshow) KOTZEBUE, Alaska — More than 1,000 personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard, Alaskan Command, Alaska National Guard, state and local agencies, tribal organizations and Royal Canadian Air Force participated in Exercise Arctic Chinook, a joint USCG and U.S. Northern Command-sponsored exercise on the U.S. State Department approved […]