Plot Synopsis

Based in Kodiak, Alaska, an elite team in the United States Coast Guard risks their lives patrolling the perilous seas off the Alaskan coast. Each 60-minute episode follows the lives of the Guardsmen as they train and work in harsh environments so they can conduct dangerous search-and-rescue missions -- using Jayhawk helicopters, response boats, advanced technologies and rugged rescue divers -- in a race to rescue victims from the frigid, deadly waters. These dedicated Guardsmen include: CDR Joseph Deer, Operation Officer; H-60 Pilots LT Jon Bartel and LT Vincent Jansen; AST Chief Charley Fowler, Rescue Swimmer Instructor; Rescue Swimmers AST Claude Morrissey and AST2 Eric Stoecker; Rescue Swimmer Candidates Airman Kyle Music and Airman Michael Culver; and Ralph Aguero. COAST GUARD ALASKA returned for its third season on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 9pm ET/PT, with a season-premiere episode that featured a flight to pick up a fisherman gone overboard and a medevac for a badly injured veteran. After a two-and-a-half month break, COAST GUARD ALASKA returned for the rest of its third season, with an episode that featured Air Station Sitka embarking on three separate missions to help a fisherman with severed fingers, an injured hiker, and a cruise ship passenger experiencing stroke-like symptoms.
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Weather Channel premiered the fourth season of COAST GUARD ALASKA on Monday, February 23, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT, as Coast Guard personnel face a more difficult mission after people they're rescuing take a plunge in the water instead of staying in their vessel.