We can be friends: Joint U.S.-Canadian effort rescues 12 kayakers from San Juan Islands [View all]

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Joint U.S.-Canadian effort rescues 12 kayakers from San Juan Islands

Aug 16, 2025, 3:34 PM | Updated: 3:40 pm
BY TOM BROCK
KIRO Newsradio

A big rescue operation assisted 12 kayakers, including six children, who ran into trouble in the San Juan Islands Thursday.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a radio call came in on VHF radio, just before 2:00 p.m., from a group of kayakers in distress between Patos and Sucia Islands, just north of Orcas Island.

A 29-foot Coast Guard rescue boat out of Bellingham immediately launched.

That crew was joined by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Federal Policing – Pacific Shiprider Rescue marine boat crew.

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