KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medevaced a 16-year-old male Sitka Wilderness Therapy student experiencing chest pains on Duffield Peninsula, approximately 30 miles north of Sitka Sunday evening. The aircrew safely hoisted and transferred the boy from a narrow tidal flat to awaiting emergency medical services personnel in […]
Bull kelp. Photo by Melissa Good. Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF) and partners, including Alaska Sea Grant, are excited to announce a new training program for people interested in starting a seaweed farm. The program will be held in Kodiak, Ketchikan and Sitka in February 2020. Applications are due by December 20, 2019. The training […]
A Wildlife Trooper and Technician aboard the P/V Courage, a Coast Guard helicopter, divers from the Sitka Fire Department as well as a “good samaritan” diver, responded to the scene in Katlian Bay after the Sitka Police Dispatch received a report of a heavy equipment accident there at 11:56 am on Thursday. The caller reported […]
After Sector Juneau watchstanders received notification of two boaters in the water after their boat capsized near Chuck Salt on the Upper Lynn Canal at approximately 1 am on Friday, a response was initiated by Petersburg Search and Rescue personnel, an Alaska State Trooper boat crew, a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew, other […]