Deck Watch: Cable eating bears keep Coast Guardsmen busy
By Seaman Justin Hergert Recently a brown bear at Communications Station Kodiak caused enough damage to disable a communications antenna for the winter season, until repairs can be made in the spring. The cost to repair the cable is estimated [...]
Deck Watch: Coast Guard encourages mariners to better prepare for voyages in Southeast Alaska
Lt. Ryan Erickson, chief of incident management at Coast Guard Sector Juneau, makes safety recommendations for mariners operating in Southeast Alaska during the winter from Juneau, Alaska, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Deck Watch is a weekly five minute radio program [...]
ANT Kodiak keeps Alaskan mariners safe
The Coast Guard aids to navigation missions include more than just the work of buoy tender crews. In Alaska, Aids to Navigation Teams in Kodiak and Sitka service more than 220 land-based aids. The crew at Aids to Navigation [...]
Cutter crew completes patrol, training in Alaska winter conditions
The Coast Guard Cutter Long Island, homeported in Valdez, is one of seven 110-foot Island Class patrol boats stationed throughout Alaska. The crews’ are typically underway for a total of 185 days a year and their primary missions include search [...]
Coast Guardsman saves lives on and off duty in Alaska
Ken Lawrenson, the Coast Guard 17th District commercial fishing vessel safety coordinator and a volunteer firefighter with Juneau’s Capital City Fire/Rescue, responded to the largest fire of his career at the Gastineau Apartments in downtown Juneau, Alaska, Monday. Lawrenson [...]
Deck Watch: How to stay safe in the backcountry of Alaska
Lt. Crystal Hudak, a search and rescue controller at the Coast Guard 17th District command center in Juneau, Alaska, details how to be best prepared for an emergency while in the Alaskan backcountry, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Deck Watch is [...]
Coast Guard hosts Alaska Army Nation Guard in Kodiak, Alaska
Story by Ensign Victoria Stockton Coast Guard personnel recently hosted members from the Alaska Army National Guard and representatives from Coast Guard Sector Anchorage during a tour of the units and facilities in Kodiak, Alaska, Thursday The tour included [...]
Deckwatch: Hickory tends Western Alaska aids
In this week’s Deck Watch, Lt. j.g. Joel Wright, a officer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Hickory, describes the challenges of performing the Aids to Navigation mission in the ever changing tides of Alaska’s coastal waterways. To listen to the [...]
Cutter crew maintains operational readiness
During the life of a Coast Guard cutter, there are continual updates and preventative maintenance requirements preformed to ensure the vessel is ready to respond when called upon. However, despite the dedicated efforts of the ship’s crew to maintain the [...]
Coast Guard rescues three duck hunters near Whittier, Alaska
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Long Island and a good Samaritan vessel rescued three members of a duck hunting expedition Saturday in Harrison Lagoon near Whittier. Two of the hunters overturned their canoe while trying to retrieve a [...]
