ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Coast Guard boatcrew and a good Samaritan rescued three adults and two teenagers from a 32-foot personal craft taking on water in the vicinity of Naked Island Sunday morning. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Anchorage received a mobile phone call at 6 a.m. from one of the five people reporting they had abandoned ship and swam to […]
DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau assisted in the rescue and safe transit of a 400-foot cargo vessel with 12 people aboard during a multiple day operation in the Gulf of Alaska. The Resolve Pioneer, a sea going tug boat based in Dutch Harbor, arrived on scene Saturday and set […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted two men from the sinking 35-foot sailing vessel Rafiki 230 miles south of Cold Bay, Alaska, early Wednesday morning. The Jayhawk aircrew then rendezvoused with an Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules aircrew in Sand Point, Alaska. The Hercules crew transported the […]
RCC was contacted and a chopper was launched after paramedics with the Butte Fire Department found they could not reach the scene of a climbing accident on Pioneer Peak on Tuesday night, the trooper dispatch revealed on Wednesday. Palmer-based troopers were notified that climber, 23-year-old Shawnee Whitehorse of Palmer had fallen and “had an ice […]