JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard rescued two overdue boaters on shore in Totem Bay Sunday after their vessel sank. A Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team-Seattle 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew, forward-deployed to Petersburg, located the two boaters on shore at 11:13 a.m., embarked them, and transported them to EMS in Petersburg. Both men […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescued four mariners after their boat capsized in Glacier Bay National Park, Friday. At 12:04 p.m., watchstanders at the Sector Juneau command center received a distress alert in the vicinity of Muir Inlet from a digital selective calling device registered to Cats N Dawgs, a 66-foot privately owned […]
All occupants of a plane crash a half mile offshore of Kokhanok on Iliamna Lake were rescued after the aircraft began taking on water and the passengers and pilot were forced to abandon the aircraft and enter the water. Dispatch at Fairbanks AST received a call reporting the crash at 6:20 pm on Saturday and […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard hoisted three hunters Wednesday, who were stranded after their boat sank on the southern end of Popof Island. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted all three hunters at 7:30 a.m. from the shoreline and transported them to Sand Point Airport where they were met […]