The U.S. Coast Guard is helping Russian rescuers look for more than 50 fishermen who are missing after their vessel sank Monday in the far western Bering Sea.
Fifty-four crew members from the South Korean trawler Oryong 501 are still unaccounted for. Seven others were rescued from a life raft after the sinking, and one more person is confirmed dead.
At least one person has died and dozens more are missing after a South Korean trawler sank in the western Bering Sea early Monday morning.
The Oryong 501 was fishing for pollock off Chukotka in the Russian Far East, with about 60 crew members aboard.
They were reportedly hit by a wave while hauling in fish in bad weather, and began taking on water. There was no report of a distress call before the vessel sank.
The bulk carrier Mykonos Seas in Vancouver earlier this month. /Credit: M.L. Jacobs
The Coast Guard medevacked a mariner near Cold Bay on Sunday after he injured his hand in machinery aboard his vessel.
The man was hoisted off the 623-foot cargo ship Mykonos Seas. It’s a Liberian vessel that was about 75 miles southeast of Cold Bay.
The Coast Guard sent its Jayhawk helicopter, forward-deployed in Cold Bay for the winter fishing season, to conduct the rescue. They flew the injured man to the Cold Bay clinic, where he went onto Anchorage via commercial medevac for further treatment. He's reportedly in stable condition.
Dunbar visited KUCB's studios in Unalaska in September. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)
Alaskans will vote for their at-large U.S. Representative during Tuesday's election. This year, longtime Republican Rep. Don Young is being challenged by a political newcomer, Forrest Dunbar.
Young didn't make himself available for an interview with KUCB this year. But Dunbar made a campaign stop in Unalaska in September.
A Coast Guard aircraft conducted a flyover of the drifting barge this past weekend. (Courtesy: USCG Air Station Kodiak)
A small fuel barge is drifting toward Arctic sea ice, north of Prudhoe Bay -- and the Coast Guard says it’ll probably be stuck there until next summer.
The 134-foot unmanned barge broke off from its tugboat in a storm last week. Since then, Coast Guard commander Shawn Decker says it’s been drifting away from Alaska’s shoreline.
At this rate, he says it’s likely the barge will get trapped in sea ice to the north. In that case, the Coast Guard would have to wait to remove it until the ice thawed next June.
With less than a month until election day, the race to become Alaska's next governor is heating up.
Independent candidate Bill Walker and his Democrat running mate are canvassing the state for votes -- all the way out to the Aleutians.
It might be a big port community, but it’s not unusual for political campaigns to skip Unalaska. The town is hard to get to and there aren’t a lot of voters on the other side.
Two Aleutian communities are going without local law enforcement after their village public safety officers resigned.
Akutan's officer has stepped down for personal reasons. And False Pass lost its VPSO two months ago, when the officer decided to move closer to his family on the East Coast.
Both of those officers were employed by the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, or APIA. They get funding from the state of Alaska to put officers in five communities.
