Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth District
  United States Coast Guard
Imagery Release Date: May 23, 2009
Contact: Petty Officer Walter Shinn
Phone: (907) 321-4513

Coast Guard participates with Juneau outdoor educational safety event

JUNEAU, Alaska - The Coast Guard participates in an event to help educate the community on outdoor safety and survival. Coast Guard Station Juneau, Air Station Sitka and local Coast Guard auxiliary volunteers were on hand to give tours and answer boating safety questions.  JUNEAU, Alaska - The Coast Guard participates in an event to help educate the community on outdoor safety and survival. Coast Guard Station Juneau, Air Station Sitka and local Coast Guard auxiliary volunteers were on hand to give tours and answer boating safety questions.  JUNEAU, Alaska - The Coast Guard participates in an event to help educate the community on outdoor safety and survival. Coast Guard Station Juneau, Air Station Sitka and local Coast Guard auxiliary volunteers were on hand to give tours and answer boating safety questions.  JUNEAU, Alaska - The Coast Guard participates in an event to help educate the community on outdoor safety and survival. Coast Guard Station Juneau, Air Station Sitka and local Coast Guard auxiliary volunteers were on hand to give tours and answer boating safety questions.
Editors Note: Coast Guard Photos taken by Petty Officer Walter Shinn

JUNEAU, Alaska - The Coast Guard participates with other agencies and organizations in an event to help educate the community on outdoor safety and survival Saturday. 

Coast Guard Station Juneau, Air Station Sitka and local Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers were on hand to give tours and answer boating safety questions.

Alaska has one of the highest non-commercial boating fatality rates per capita in the nation.   For more information on boating safety awareness click on the links below.

http://www.uscgboating.org./

http://www.safeboatingcampaign.com/

http://www.cgaux.org/

 

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