KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers, local search and rescue and the crew of the tug Naniq responded to a disabled vessel near Kotzebue, Alaska, Wednesday. The Naniq crew provided gas and a battery to the disabled vessel and escorted them back to Kotzebue. Alaska State Troopers contacted Coast Guard 17th District command center […]
It was on Sunday evening at 6:28 pm that a call from two men in the water after their boat capsized to Petersburg Police Department alerted authorities to their marine accident. The call came from 58-year-old Kenneth Rupprecht and 45-year-old Jonathan Comfort, from South Carolina and Delaware respectively, who were in Alaska on a week-long self […]
It was announced by trooper dispatch, in a release, that 75-year-old Cordova fisherman, Roger Lee Koechling was convicted after a three-day bench trial on charges of Reckless Endangerment x4 Disorderly Conduct x4, and Two counts of Reckless Operation of a Marine Vessel. The case stems from an event that occurred on the Eyak River in […]
A serious aircraft/watercraft accident occurred on the Mulchatna River on just after 2pm on Wednesday afternoon when a DHC2 Beaver taking off from that location suffered a loss of altitude caused by a downdraft. The downdraft caused the Beaver to drop and one of the aircraft’s floats struck a man operating an eighteen-foot skiff on the […]