Multimedia Release: Coast Guard's top 5 videos of 2010 from Alaska

[The Patriot]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The 17th Coast Guard District presents the top 5 operational videos for 2010 highlighting work done every day by Coast Guard men and women in Alaska.

Alaska's top five videos:

1. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=844088 -- KODIAK, Alaska - The Coast Guard's Civil Engineering Unit from Juneau and Controlled Demolition, Inc., brought down Alaska's tallest structure at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Port Clarence using controlled explosives.

2. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=837550 -- KODIAK, Alaska - The crew of a Kodiak-based MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescue four crewmen from the fishing vessel Northern Belle 50 miles south of Monatgue Island in the Gulf of Alaska April 20, 2010.

3. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=812671 -- KODIAK, Alaska - A Kodiak-based HC-130 Hercules aircraft crew conducts a radio drop to the crew of the sailing vessel California March 21, 2010.

4. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=1064720 -- KODIAK, Alaska - The tug Tor Viking II tows the 738-foot cargo vessel Golden Seas to Dutch Harbor with the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley escorting 50 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor in the Pacific Ocean Dec. 5, 2010.

5. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=960938 -- POINT HOPE, Alaska - Four Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Kodiak personnel completed a build of the 15-foot Coast Guard aid to navigation tower four miles south of Point Hope Aug. 2, 2010, which is the only permanent Coast Guard aid to navigation tower north of the Arctic Circle.

Also in 2010, Coast Guard men and women in Alaska have saved 142 lives, assisted more than 800 mariners, saved more than $58,000,000 in property, conducted 445 fisheries boardings, 693 commercial fishing vessel safety boardings and trained more than 700 commercial fishermen on coldwater survival, damage control and maritime safety regulations.

Coast Guard crews responded to more than 100 pollution incidents across Alaska, working with state and federal agencies maintaining the state's pristine environment. Alaska's Coast Guard also serviced 649 maritime aids to navigation and worked together with the volunteer arm of the Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, performing more than 1,000 vessel safety checks.

For more information or to arrange an interview with a Coast Guard responder in Alaska contact Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosley at 907-321-4510.




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