Italian authorities say at least 29 African migrants have died of hypothermia while crossing the Mediterranean in freezing weather and rough seas. The Italian coast guard says it found seven people dead when it answered a distress call from the migrants’ boat off Libya late Sunday. It says 22 others died on a vessel that […]
Four people were plucked from a sinking vessel early Monday morning after that vessel ran aground damaging its hull. An Alaska Wildlife Trooper vessel and a Sitka Mountain Rescue vessel with divers responded to the scene of the sinking 80-foot F/V Eyak after a call went in to the Coast Guard early Monday morning. When […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard assisted a 26-year-old woman from Metlakatla, Alaska, who was reported to have fallen out of her canoe and swam to shore near Tongass Narrows, Sunday. A Station Ketchikan 25-foot Response Boat – Small crew picked up the survivor and transferred to her family in Annette Bay. Coast Guard Station Ketchikan […]
For the second time in a week, the Italian Coast Guard has taken control of a vessel carrying refugees from Syria in Italian waters after the crew has abandoned the wheelhouse after setting course for the Italian mainland. On Friday the Italian Coast Guard reported that it had landed a helicopter aboard the Ezadeen, a 50-year-old livestock […]