Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 08.14.2021
A diver surfacing from the water in Women's Bay, Alaska, August 14, 2021. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage, state partners, and local agencies continue to respond to a diesel oil sheen in Women's Bay. -Courtesy photo by: Global Diving and Salvage...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 08.14.2021
A sonar image of the sunken vessel, Saint Patrick, in Women's Bay, Alaska, August 14, 2021. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage, state partners, and local agencies continue to respond to a diesel oil sheen in Women's Bay. -Courtesy photo by: E-track...
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Dean | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 05.28.2019
Coast Guard Cutter John Midgett (WHEC 726), Coast Guard Cutter Hickory (WLB 212), and the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) sit moored in Kodiak as a storm rolls into Womens Bay, Alaska, May 28, 2019. All three cutters conduct various missions throughout Alaska, from domestic fisheries enforcement and conducting search and rescue cases, to maintaining navigational aids for mariners......
Photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 05.01.2019
The Coast Guard Cutters SPAR (WLB 206) and Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) are moored at home port while a raft of otters gather in Womens Bay, in Kodiak, Alaska, May 1, 2019. The SPAR is a 225-foot buoy tender and the Douglas Munro is a 378-foot high endurance cutter that service the Alaskan waters in support of living marine resources, maritime safety, search and rescue, law enforcement and aids to......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 04.26.2019
A Coast Guard pollution investigator from Marine Safety Detachment Kodiak inspects a grounded, derelict barge on the southeast shoreline of Womens Bay on Kodiak Island, Alaska, April 26, 2019. Containment boom was placed around the barge after the Coast Guard observed a light, rainbow-colored sheen coming from the vicinity of the barge. U.S. Coast Guard photo by MSD Kodiak...
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Tautfest | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 09.26.2018
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aviator holds his breath as two rescue swimmers flip a shallow water egress training chair upside down at Base Kodiak’s pool in Kodiak, Alaska, Sept. 26, 2018. The SWET chair is part of annual aviation water survival drills in which Coast Guard aviators must complete certain survival training skills and demonstrate simulated emergency egress capabilities.......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Tautfest | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 09.26.2018
Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aviators participate in the air station’s annual aviation water survival training at Base Kodiak’s pool in Kodiak, Alaska, Sept. 26, 2018. The shallow water egress training chair simulates being upside down in a crashed aircraft and needing to egress in an emergency. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Hengen....
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Tautfest | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 09.25.2018
Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aviators begin to swim toward an inflatable life raft in Women’s Bay, Kodiak, Alaska, Sept. 25, 2018. During the annual aviation water survival training, members receive instruction in water survival techniques and equipment, and enter and remain in the water for at least 10 minutes while wearing a flight suit or aircrew dry coverall and survival vest. U.S.......