After receiving a call from the Alaska State Troopers reporting an overdue kayaker near Anchorage on Tuesday evening, the United States Coast Guard launched a Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter that was redeployed to Cordova, to conduct a search of the area. It was reported that the man was on a kayaking trip from the Knik […]
It was at about 12:30pm on Saturday that two men, James Demmert and Paul Washington departed Hydaburg to do some subsistence fishing near Lime Point. When they did not return that day after their planned trip, troopers were contacted and advised of the overdue boaters. The troopers on Prince of Wales Island were notified at about […]
The international COSPAS-SARSAT rescue network, responsible for saving more than 37,000 people worldwide, including more than 7,300 in the United States thanks to NOAA satellite operations, was inducted into the Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame yesterday. The COSPAS-SARSAT system is one of two inductees into the hall at the 30th Space Symposium at […]