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 […]
11 people were successfully rescued from the west side of Mount Jumbo on Prince of Wales Island after a Dehaviland DHC-3 on floats went down on Tuesday, the Coast Guard reports. Immediately after the report of the crash was received from the aircraft after it crashed at the 2,000-foot level on the west side of […]
JUNE 5,2018 PORT TOWNSEND, WA— Race to Alaska, now in its 4th year, just closed its registration and 47 teams will be at the start line. “This is when we start looking at our field on racers for who we think might win and who is going to make a really good story,” says Race […]
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 […]