[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the week nears its end, the United States Coast Guard reports that the forward-deployed MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak carried out three hoists this week in the Bering Sea near Cold Bay. On Monday evening, Watchstanders in Juneau received notification from Alaska Maritime Physicians that they were relaying communications from the […]
After days-long delays caused by rough sea conditions, the 225-foot USCG Buoy Tender Sycamore set out in 15-foot seas to take advantage of a fleeting weather window to install a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather buoy early in the morning last week. Using weather information from the NOAA weather office in Anchorage, the […]
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy completed their second mission of their Arctic West Summer 2018 deployment Thursday. Mission 1802 was a scientific mission to study stratified ocean dynamics in the Arctic (SODA) for the Office of Naval Research. The project, led by Dr. Craig Lee of the Applied Physics Laboratory at […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard is searching for a man last seen aboard a fishing boat north of St. Matthew Island Thursday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak C-130 Hercules aircrew launched from Kotzebue and is searching for the man along with the crew of fishing vessels Clipper Epic, Frontier Spirit and Frontier Mariner. […]