KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued six hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Sunday. The Jayhawk helicopter crew located the five adults and one child 25 miles southeast of Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island and transported them to the Savoonga airport in good condition. Coast Guard District […]
In this video provided by Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, an Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk crew hoists a man who experienced chest pains from the fishing vessel Kindred Spirit in Stephens Passage near Port Snettisham. Video by Air Station Sitka. After a crewmember on a fishing vessel in Stephens Passage in southeast Alaska began suffering […]
The Coast Guard reports that they hoisted a fisherman in distress from his vessel on Tuesday 14 miles north of Port Moller. According to the report, the 43-foot gillnetter, Transit, ran into problems and began foundering in the surf 14 miles to the north of the small community and fishing port of Port Moller. The […]
The salmon-fishing vessel Grayling was reported rolled-over on Monday in Kodiak Island’s Kupreanof Straits, the body of water that separates Kodiak Island from Afognak Island. According to the report, three of the four crew managed to escape the roll-over, but, a fourth crewmember was trapped inside the cabin for a time. The USCG reports that […]