JUNEAU, Alaska — Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Mustang and a Station Valdez 45-foot Response Boat-Medium assisted the crew of a fishing vessel that ran aground Thursday morning on the south side of Evans Island in Prince William Sound. The Mustang and RB-M crews towed the fishing vessel Eleon safely to port in Chenega […]
The search for the three missing boaters, 40-year-old John Dimmick, 28-year-old Mark Valdez, and 25-year-old Cory Bicchinella, reported missing in the vicinity of Prince William Sound on Tuesday morning ended successfully. The boaters had been reported overdue from a two day fishing trip that began on Sunday and was to end on Monday night. The […]
VALDEZ, Alaska — The Coast Guard responded to four mariners aboard the capsized 40-foot fishing vessel Auriga near Valdez, Monday. The mariners climbed aboard the vessel’s skiff and were rescued by nearby good Samaritan fishing vessel Cornelia Marie and taken to Port Valdez. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders received a report that the […]
Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, the University of Alaska and the Alaska Ocean Observing System are teaming up this summer and early fall to use new unmanned tools to study how melting glaciers in Alaska’s Prince William Sound may be intensifying ocean acidification in the sound and on the Gulf of Alaska […]