While flying over Alaska from Kotzebue to Nome, a Coast Guard aircrew spotted an SOS sign on top of a shack and a man waving his hand

Repeatedly Confronted By A Bear, A Man Is Rescued After He Writes 'SOS' On A Shack

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2021-07-23 18:00:02

While flying over Alaska from Kotzebue to Nome, a Coast Guard aircrew spotted an SOS sign on top of a shack and a man waving his hands in the air. U.S. Coast Guard hide caption

While flying over Alaska from Kotzebue to Nome, a Coast Guard aircrew spotted an SOS sign on top of a shack and a man waving his hands in the air.

While flying between the Alaskan cities of Kotzebue and Nome, a Coast Guard helicopter crew spotted an SOS sign on top of a shack. Circling back over the remote mining camp, they found a man waving two hands in the air.

Friends had reported him missing after he hadn't returned to his Nome home. It turned out the man had been mauled by a bear days earlier, the crew realized when they finally got to him last week. That attack bruised his torso and injured his leg, according to the Coast Guard.

Coast Guard personnel then transported the man to a Nome emergency room for his injuries, the Coast Guard said in a statement Tuesday night.

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