Coast Guard provides SAR planning support to Republic of Korea
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard search and rescue crews were relieved by Republic of Korea assets on Saturday in their search for 26 crewmembers from the fishing vessel 501 Oryong that capsized Nov. 30, 2014, near Chukotka, Russia, in the Bering Sea.
The Coast Guard completed more than 24 searches covering more than 4,576 square miles utilizing two cutters, two helicopters, and multiple airplanes....
Coast Guard, Kamchatka Border Guard sign joint agency protocol document in Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage – Coast Guard Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo, commander, 17th Coast Guard District, and Rear Adm. Sergey Vitalievich Shcherbakov, commander, Kamchatka Border Guard Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, signed a joint agency protocol document in Anchorage, Alaska, April 18, 2013.
The protocol document highlighted discussions between the agencies for continued...
Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis participates in international excercise
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis, a 378-foot cutter homeported in Honolulu, took part in an international Multilateral, Multi-mission Exercise along with Coast Guards and other maritime security agencies from China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, August 21 to August 27 in Vladivostok, Russia.
