Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Honored for Saving 3 Imperiled Sailors in Alaska A Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter aircrew from Air Station Sitka rescues three people from an overturned vessel off ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — A newly minted Coast Guard rescue swimmer saved a man’s life Friday at the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state just after a giant wave rolled the ...

Phoenix Hanna, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, died recently in a California surfing accident. Hanna was a third-generation Coastguardsman, his father said, and his son’s death marks “the first ...

The United States Coast Guard responded to an overturned vessel near Sitka, Alaska on Tuesday evening, where they found two people dead and rescued three others.

The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska found the wreckage of a small plane atop frozen sea ice on Friday, ... Two U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmers who reached the wreckage could see three bodies inside, ...

A Coast Guard boat crew was also called out, but the surf made that kind of rescue too dangerous - so they lowered a rescue swimmer into the water. This was Petty Officer First Class Branch Walton ...

An investigation is underway after a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jawhawk helicopter crashed during a search and rescue mission in Alaska, injuring all four crew members, two seriously.

The Coast Guard said rescue teams from Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Petersburg Fire and Rescue reached the crash site less than two hours later, at about 12:50 a.m. Tuesday.

Rescue swimmer John "Branch" Walton (center) poses in front of a Jayhawk helicopter with the U.S. Coast Guard crew that ferried him to the mouth of the Columbia River and helped him rescue a ...

Last Friday, U.S. Coast Guard personnel conducted an audacious rescue, pulling a man from the big waves and choppy seas of the Oregon Coast. For the rescue swimmer, Aviation Survival Technician ...

President Joe Biden expressed his gratitude to a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, thanking him for saving lives in response to Hurricane Ian, days before he is poised to be fired for not being ...