search and rescue

Several ships being launched to feed Arctic cruise boom

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 09:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 09:21
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Twenty-eight new expedition ships (and counting) capable of sailing Arctic waters are coming to the market over the next four

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 18:11 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 08:47
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While rapid climate change is opening up growing portions of the Arctic to more ship traffic and economic activity, it’s

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 15:38
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The purchase of a new and much touted search-and-rescue helicopter for Sweden’s Arctic has been criticized after the aircraft failed to

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 21:22 — Last Updated: Monday, February 8, 2016 at 15:32
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TROMSO, Norway – Climate change and the effect of global warming on the North had many predicting a shipping bonanza

Asaf Shalev, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 15:22 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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DEADHORSE — Lt. Jason Evans was piloting a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter over the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope when

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, July 27, 2015 at 18:03 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 19:36
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WASHINGTON — The Aug. 31 conference that will bring President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and a slew of foreign ministers

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 13:34 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 20:29
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Despite the chill in regular military cooperation, Norwegian and Russian rescue centers will team up with coast guard forces from

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 14:11
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The inevitable has happened in the 32-year-old Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, and 44-year-old Rob Kehrer is dead. A 10-year veteran

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 15:05
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At first glance, it might seem odd to compare the Arctic and Central Asia – two regions whose physical geographies

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, March 28, 2014 at 12:24

On Monday, I spoke with Timo Lohi, who is heading up the Arctic Corridor project based in Finland. The Arctic

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, March 17, 2014 at 09:48
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New regulations may restrict operations when risk to rescuers judged to be too high The Royal Canadian Air Force is

With an audible click, the red taillight of the Alaska State Troopers’ newly purchased American Eurocopter A-Star 350B3e began to