Coast Guard in Alaska observes National Safe Boating Week
On June 4, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower established National Safe Boating Week as the first week starting on the first Sunday in June. In 1995, the date for National Safe Boating Week was changed to a full week before [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Hickory provides elementary school tour in Homer, Alaska
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Hickory hosted elementary school students for a tour aboard the ship in Homer, Alaska, May 3, 2013. During the tour, the two Paul Banks Elementary School first-grade classes and their teachers, Wendy Todd and [...]
Fostering relationships through emergency response
Alaska! It is a land of wonder and grandeur, a land steeped in beautiful vistas and peppered with native communities each is as distinct as they are unique from each other. Knowing these communities, their people and their unique cultures [...]
High and Dry: Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa undergoes maintenance period
Normally, when a vessel finds its way out of the water and onto land, it is not a good thing. However, from time to time purposefully lifting a boat out of the water to take a look at the otherwise [...]
Home from the sea: Coast Guard Cutter Murno returns to Kodiak, Alaska
For the sailor there are two great joys: Going to sea is one. Coming home is the other. Saturday morning, not long after sunrise, fair winds and a flood tide carried the Coast Guard Cutter Munro its mooring in [...]
Coast Guard encourages fishing vessel safety examinations for the 2013 halibut and sablefish fisheries
The month of March marks the beginning of the halibut and sablefish seasons, the longest running fishing seasons in Alaska. Any seasoned Alaskan mariner knows that fishing on the open water is dangerous business, but not every fisherman is [...]
Boating safety applies to Alaska paddlers, mariners equally
The Alaska Native coastal people who mastered survival in the world’s harshest climate did not shrink from the open ocean — they respected it, lived with it, and made its rich resources an integral part of their tradition. The seagoing [...]
Ship, shipmate, self: Kodiak-based Coast Guardsman recognized for dedicated service
Petty Officer 1st Class Cassandra Brockett, a corpsman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley, has been selected as the Independent Duty Health Services Technician of the Year afloat for 2012. Her dedicated care of her shipmates was distinguished by [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Munro assists injured mariner in icy Bering Sea
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro responded to a call for help from an injured crewman aboard the fishing vessel Nordic Fury, underway in the Bering Sea 40 miles southwest of St. Paul, Alaska, Feb. 27. The crew [...]
Coast Guard Fire and Rescue always ready in Kodiak, Alaska
The men and women of Coast Guard Fire and Rescue at Base Kodiak stand ready to respond to a myriad of emergency situation at a moment’s notice. Every member, from the new firefighter to the Fire Chief, is required [...]
