36 KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew assisted three mariners and their two dogs after their vessel ran aground in the Gilkey River, Alaska, late Saturday night.
The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located the mariners on a riverbank just north of Juneau at 8:20 a.m., Sunday, and safely transported them to emergency medical service personnel in Juneau for further medical care.
At approximately 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, Coast Guard Sector Juneau Command Center personnel received a call reporting one of the three mariners was ejected from his boat into the water Saturday night, but that the entire crew made it safely to shore.