USCG, AANG Coordinate Efforts to Rescue Two Stranded Hunters from Punuk Islands

By U.S. Coast Guard 17th District Alaska on Dec 1, 2018   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued two stranded hunters on the Punuk Islands, east of St. Lawrence Island, 664 miles Northwest of Kodiak, Alaska, Thursday. After the aircrew’s roughly 700-mile transit, the men were taken to Nome for further care. One of the men was reported to […]