ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Coast Guard units continue testing operational capabilities of various assets during Operation Salliq in Barrow, Alaska. The 16-day operation includes two HH-65 Dolphin helicopters, one from Air Station Kodiak and another from Air Station San Francisco and two 25-foot response boats from Station Valdez. Boat and air crews have been [...]
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Coast Guard Continues Searching for Missing Juneau Pilots
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is still searching for two Juneau pilots who have been missing since Saturday evening after family members reported they did not arrive back from Young Lake approximately 20 miles southwest of Juneau at the scheduled time.
Brian Andrews, 56, and Brandon Andrews, 24, both pilots living in Juneau were last [...]
Coast Guard medevacs man 25-miles off Port Aransas, Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Coast Guard medevaced a 56-year-old man from a charter fishing boat 25-miles east of Port Aransas, early this morning.
A watchstander at Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 2:07 a.m. from the crew of the charter fishing boat, La Pesca. The crewmember reported that a man was suffering from [...]
Coast Guard assists capsized vessel with four men on board
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard assisted a capsized vessel with four men on board off of Cannon Beach, Ore., Sunday morning.
Coast Guard Group Astoria, Ore., received a mayday call at 6:10 a.m., from a 22-foot dory with four men on board. The caller said they were taking on water outside of the surf line off [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Overdue Float Plane
JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka is searching between Juneau and Young Lake for two men believed to be missing after they did not land their float plane at Young Lake yesterday as scheduled.
Brandon and Brian Andrews, both Juneau residents, were last seen leaving Juneau flying a Cesna [...]