U.S. COAST GUARD

An aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak spotted the sheen Sunday morning. The Oracle ran aground Thursday morning, and five people were rescued.

Five people were rescued early Thursday morning after the F/V Oracle ran aground near the south end of False Pass.

A Canadian crew lost control of their sailboat, the Mizuya, about 950 miles southwest of Adak Island on June 18. They were rescued in an international Coast Guard effort, and the 40-foot trimaran was left adrift. But the owner wasn’t willing to abandon his sailboat, so he went back to find it.

A salvage team is set to clean up the wreckage of a ship near St. George Island, months after it ran aground, leaking tens of thousands of gallons of fuel and other oils into the ocean.

For the first time this year, the U.S. Coast Guard tracked Chinese vessels traveling through a section of international waters in the Bering Sea.

The U.S. Coast Guard recently replaced about 30 buoys near False Pass, just in time for the bulk of the region’s summer salmon vessel traffic.

Three sailors are safe after being rescued in the North Pacific, about a thousand miles southwest of Adak in the western Aleutians.

Unalaska held its annual Memorial Day ceremony on May 25. Dozens of locals gathered inside the high school gym to honor veterans and those lost at sea.

The Coast Guard is working to repair numerous lost buoys near False Pass, in anticipation of increased summer vessel traffic in the area.

The U.S. Coast Guard pulled two hikers to safety from Unalaska’s Makushin Volcano Sunday evening.