United States Coast Guard

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued nine people from a fishing vessel that ran aground Monday morning near St. George Island in the Bering Sea, the agency said in a press release. The release said that no one was injured.

Over 200 community members made their way to the Unalaska Spit on Friday afternoon to hop on board the Kimball Express.

The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a stranded sailing vessel about 23 miles south of Unalaska.

After several days of waiting out a storm near Unalaska, the Pan Viva is on the move and headed to its destination port in Washington State. The U.S. Coast Guard order which kept the vessel in place for most of Monday has been lifted.

A Panamanian cargo ship carrying 300,000 gallons of fuel is still anchored near Unalaska, not expected to depart until at least Monday morning, as poor weather conditions persist.

The U.S. Coast Guard removed four crew members from the Pan Viva Saturday afternoon. The distressed 738-foot Panama-flagged cargo ship is anchored near Constantine Bay in Unalaska. The tugboat Gretchen Dunlap is standing by to assist the ship, according to several sources working on the response.

The claims to extended continental shelf territory, to be asserted by the U.S. State Department, include an area within the Arctic Ocean that is bigger than California.

The U.S. Coast Guard said in a June report that Unalaska is currently unable to support a larger Coast Guard presence, complicating efforts by the City of Unalaska to make the island a family duty station.

Malepeai Mamea’s family launched an online fundraiser about five days ago. As of Tuesday morning, more than 75 donors had contributed. The family’s goal is to raise $10,000 to help transport Malepeai Mamea’s body to Seattle and lay her to rest there.

Chief Petty Officer Jeffrey Paul DeRonde, 34, passed away in a rafting accident on Eagle River near Juneau on Sept. 5, 2021. He was an avid outdoorsman, and in a continuous quest for adventure, he chose assignments in Kodiak, Alaska; Long Beach, California; Afghanistan; Portland, Oregon; Dutch Harbor, Alaska; and Juneau, Alaska. Jeff was an active-duty officer in the Coast Guard at the time of his death having served for 16 years.