NOAA, with assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard, will manage the historic wreck ofDiamond Shoal Lightship No. 71, the only American lightship to be sunk by enemy action during World War I. The two agencies signed a formal agreement between NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the Coast Guard’s Historian’s Office last month. Built […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard responded to seven passengers experiencing rough seas aboard the 29-foot fishing vessel Analise off Rocky Point on the east side of Togiak Bay, Saturday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew safely embarked a woman and four children for transport to Togiak. A good Samaritan in an […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard and Alaska State Troopers responded to four mariners in distress after their 32-foot fishing vessel Just In Time began taking on water near Dillingham, Friday. Alaska State Troopers provided the crew of Just In Time a dewatering pump and a damage control kit to patch the hole, and stayed with […]
It was at approximately 6:15 pm on the Fourth of July that a report went in to Coast Guard Sector Anchorage advising them that the 45-foot purse seining vessel Elohim had capsized while transiting Port Valdez with four adults aboard. Another vessel, the Infinite Grace recovered the four victims of the sinking. The Infinite Grace […]