JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Station Ketchikan boatcrew towed a disabled vessel near Earnest Sound, north of Ketchikan, to safety Monday. The 45-foot Response Boat – Medium crew towed the disabled 30-foot recreational vessel with one person aboard 40 miles to Knudson Cove Marina in Ketchikan. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Juneau received notification through Station […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medevaced a 32-year-old man and a 28-year-old man from the 738-foot cargo ship Cemtex Venture approximately 220 miles southeast of Kodiak, Tuesday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the men and rendezvoused with emergency medical services personnel in Kodiak where one patient was […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard monitored the rescue of a mariner in distress aboard a 30-foot sailboat approximately 400 miles south of Cold Bay, Alaska. The good Samaritan crew of Tor Viking, a vessel contracted under Shell, safely recovered the mariner and his cat. Coast Guard 17th District watchstanders received an alert from the mariner’s emergency […]
The Kodiak man who was the subject of an investigation by Alaska State troopers after they received a call from United States Coast Guard police at air station Kodiak on Thursday, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on one count of assault causing serious bodily injury, and another for unlawfully entering the […]