ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and Hanson Maritime are responding to a sunken vessel near Sitka that had no people on board. The Coast Guard received the initial report of a 34-foot-long fishing vessel having sunk in Sitka Sound while sitting unmanned at anchor Friday night. Coast Guard […]
Lieutenant Krag Campbell of the Juneau Police Department announced on Saturday that over the course of three days spanning Wednesday through Friday three people were found dead on the same vessel at Sandy Beach on the outskirts of Douglas on Douglas Island across the channel from Juneau. On Wednesday afternoon at approximately 2:23 pm the […]
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard medevaced a boy after his vessel ran aground in Deering, approximately 60 miles southwest of Kotzebue, Monday evening. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew arrived on scene and landed near the vessel at 9:40 p.m., embarked the 15-year-old boy, and transported him to Kotzebue to […]