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Credit U.S. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage A teenager was found dead outside the village of Napakiak on Jan. 8. Troopers suspect that Arthur Dull, age 18, died of exposure. Just before 11 p.m. that night, Alaska State Troopers received a report that Dull had gone missing. Local searchers in Napakiak assembled a search party and began looking for the missing teen, according to an online trooper dispatch. The searchers found his body, already deceased, about 2 miles outside the village near the Kuskokwim River. “According to the initial investigation Dull intentionally went out into very cold w...

Birds safer near Sunshine Skyway, thanks to tip from boaters Dan Matics reports.  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Boaters alerted the U.S. Coast Guard about a problem that was killing several birds near the Skyway Bridge.  Paul Corsi and his family spend a lot of time on and around the water near the Skyway looking for injured pelicans and other birds.  He says what he saw a few weeks ago was the worst.   Corsi found eight cormorant carcasses, birds that are protected. They apparently died after becoming stuck on a range marker west of the bridge.   "It’s a very sad thing, as humans we have...

Dramatic Water Rescue in Nueces County Today With the cold weather and rough waters, this morning wasn't ideal for boat travel, as a group of passengers, which included two children, who were rescued by Nueces County ESD this morning after their boat overturned can attest to this. Enter your number to get our free mobile app You can watch as the rescue boat, ESD2 # 91 take off through the jetty in order to assist in the rescue of the family earlier this morning. The boat overturned near Packery Channel and the children and adults had been in the cold waters for an unknown amount of time, off...

Coast Guard searching for missing boater near Port Isabel, Texas KTRK Share: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KTRK) -- A boater went missing Sunday in Lower Laguna Madre near Port Isabel, Texas. Coast Guard Sector and Air Station watchstanders received report from the South Padre Island Police Department that a family member called, stating that the boater left from the West Polaris Boat Ramp in South Padre Island at noon Saturday and was expected to return by 6 p.m. A boat and helicopter crew searched the boater's last known location and found an 18-foot vessel with no one aboard. They continued to se...

Larry McCain, 52, of Parrish and Dennis Amo, 64, of Sarasota were hoisted to safety. At 10:30 a.m., a personal locator beacon alerted Coast Guard personnel that the men were in distress. A Coast Guard Auxiliary air crew diverted from its patrol and found the men in the water. They were transported to Air Station Clearwater. No injuries were reported. McCain told the Coast Guard the men left the 59th Street boat ramp in Bradenton early Saturday morning to fish. After catching red grouper for a few hours, the rear of the boat began to submerge. He said the men tossed the fish in the boat and t...