The series opener examines life for Coast Guard men and women at Air Station Kodiak, where they police the area, perform rescues, protect the environment and oversee safety of marine transportation.

Coast Guard Alaska

Welcome to Kodiak

Helicopter rescue crews encounter rough weather that threatens operations.

To the Rescue

Included: a helicopter rescue onboard a tanker in rough Alaskan seas; a race to reach a victim who fell off a 200-foot cliff; a rescue endeavor after a bush-plane crash a few miles from base.

Search and Rescue (SAR)

The captain races to the North Pole; two helicopter rescue crews go on a mission to save injured fishermen; an aerial search is launched for a missing person in the North Pacific.

North Pole Bound

A man requires help from the boat crew, a helicopter-rescue team battles powerful winds to get to a vessel in trouble and back in Kodiak, there's an unknown distress call in the middle of the night.

Into the Wild

The team races to Sitka, where a hunter's been shot in the back; two men in Kodiak abandon a sinking boat; guardsmen load a sleigh with holiday cheer and visit remote Alaskan villages.

Land Ho

Rough seas are battled to reach a small boat; a surfer who sought shelter from the waves must be hoisted off a 200-foot cliff.

Surf's Up

Pluto

True Guardian

Rescuers tend to a damaged vessel adrift on the Bering Sea; an injured man needs to be hoisted off a freighter; and three hunters are stranded in the woods near Sitka. Back in Kodiak, swimmers participate in survival school in the forest.

Survival of the Fittest

A helicopter crew answers a distress call from one of its own choppers; a boat team from the Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley attempts to board a fishing vessel in the turbulent Bering Sea.

Come Heck, or High Water

Rescuers tend to an infan whose life hangs in the balance.  Also an injured woman aboard a fishing vessel must be airlifted to safety, as well as a member of the Coast Guard having to seek emergency treatment for an eye inury.

Family Matters

Rescuers in Sitka race to save a fisherman struggling with deadly seizures, and tend to a man pinned under a truck.  Also the Coast Guard search for a teenager missing in the woods.

Lost and Found

Rescue missions in Cordova, Sitka and Kodiak tell the compelling stories of a fisherman whose life hangs in the balance, four hunters whose skiff goes lost at sea, and a crucial medevac for a woman facing agonizing pain.

Precious Cargo

Air station Kodiak launches on varied rescue missions including medevacs for a heart attack victim and a violently injured fisherman. And when a damaged ship begins taking on water in the Bering Sea, the Coast Guard comes to their aid.

The Same Sheet of Music

In Sitka, an epic mission sets off when multiple air crews scour the seas for two missing fishermen.  At air-station Kodiak, rescuers must fly through blinding fog to rescue an ailing man off of a container ship.

Into the Mist

In Sitka, the Coast Guard drops to a commercial cruise ship to medevac a critically ill patient. And the crew is pushed to their limits as they face two critical rescue missions in the course of a single work day.

A Good Day for a Bad Day

Stationed in Alaska, the Coast Guard work in one of the harshest environments in the world conducting Search and Rescue missions.  Ride along with the crew of an H60 helicopter or board a Cutter boat as they rescue victims from the frigid waters.

True Guardian

Full Episodes

Season 2, 9 episodes