Coast Guard News
October 31, 2016
Man suffering from hernia symptoms is hoisted in rescue basket. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Cmdr. Scott Sanborn
HOUSTON — A 29-year-old man was medevaced by a Coast Guard helicopter crew Monday afternoon, after reports of suffering from a hernia on a tanker ship about 15 miles off Galveston, in the Fairway Anchorage.... [Read More]
October 31, 2016
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MARBLEHEAD, Ohio – Coast Guard Station Marblehead opened its doors to roughly 250 visitors who toured the “haunted” facility Friday and Saturday nights.
The event was free but guests were asked to bring non-perishable food items to be given to local food banks, and they delivered; more than 270 items were collected.... [Read More]
October 31, 2016
Coast Guard crewmembers are searching for two possible missing people near Keyport Harbor, New Jersey, after an unmanned 14-foot boat was discovered October 31, 2016.
KEYPORT HARBOR, N.J. - Coast Guard crewmembers are searching for two possible missing people near Keyport Harbor, New Jersey, after an unmanned 14-foot boat was discovered Monday.... [Read More]
October 30, 2016
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Coast Guard boatcrew and a good Samaritan rescued three adults and two teenagers from a 32-foot personal craft taking on water in the vicinity of Naked Island Sunday morning.... [Read More]
October 30, 2016
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HONOLULU — The Coast Guard is seeking the public’s help identifying the owner of an unmanned 13-foot, blue kayak with a yellow paddle found approximately 200 yards off of Waimea Beach, Kauai, Sunday.
The kayak is blue with no identifiable markings and has a yellow paddle.
Anyone with information that may help identify the owner of the kayak is asked to contact Coast Guard Sector Honolulu at 808-842-2600. ... [Read More]
October 30, 2016
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BOSTON — The Coast Guard and Jamestown Police Department rescued a 60-year-old man Sunday off Fort Wetherill, Rhode Island after he fell off his sailboat.
At approximately 12:20 a.m., Coast Guard Station Castle Hill received a call from Jamestown Police reporting a man in the water who had been clinging to his boat for about two hours. A police officer was on the scene in his kayak, but could not get the man to safety. During the rescue attempt, the police officer fell from his kayak, and it was lost under the sailboat. ... [Read More]
October 29, 2016
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard has suspended the search at 1 p.m., Saturday, for Jerry Wayne Middleton, who was last seen aboard a 14-foot skiff in Shilshole Bay.
Coast Guard crews from Station Seattle, Air Station Port Angeles, the Coast Guard Cutter Sea Lion, as well as members of the Bainbridge Island and Seattle police departments, searched the area around Middleton's last known location for over 20 hours with negative results.... [Read More]
October 29, 2016
MCCLELLAN PARK, Calif. — Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento personnel held a remembrance ceremony Saturday, honoring the Coast Guard and Marine Corps crews who were lost in a mid-air collision in 2009.
While conducting a search and rescue mission, Coast Guard 1705, an HC-130 Hercules aircraft, collided with a Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter, Oct. 29, 2009, near San Clemente Island.... [Read More]
October 29, 2016
SEATTLE — Coast Guard crews are seeking additional information as they continue to search for a missing man in Shilshole Bay, Saturday.
Missing is Jerry Wayne Middleton, reportedly 6 foot 6 inches tall, Caucasian, with brown hair, approximately 350 pounds and possible last known address in Houston, Texas., and anyone with information is requested to contact Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound at (206) 217-6001.
Search efforts began when a good Samaritan reported Middleton's 14-foot skiff unmanned and adrift in the bay yesterday.... [Read More]
October 29, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Coast Guard rescued two men Saturday after the 40-foot boat the two men were on began to take on water 13 miles west of Anna Maria Island.
At 3:30 a.m., watch standers from Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a mayday call via VHF-FM marine band radio channel 16 from the crew aboard the commercial fishing boat Barbara Jean. The crew stated they were disabled due to engine trouble and were taking on water over the sides of the boat.... [Read More]
October 29, 2016
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard is responding to a fishing vessel that partially sank Thursday with diesel fuel onboard in Sitka Sound.
The owner of the fishing vessel Sandra L reported Friday that there is a visible sheen and has deployed absorbent boom. The tanks onboard have approximately 50 gallons of diesel fuel with a potential maximum total of 600 gallons. The owner is in the process of developing a salvage plan for submission to the Coast Guard for review.... [Read More]
October 28, 2016
A 14-foot skiff is found unmanned and adrift by a good Samaritan after having spotted a man on the vessel 30 minutes prior in Shilshole Bay, Wash., Oct 28, 2016.
A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Seattle, an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles and a boat crew from the Bainbridge Island Police Department launched in response to search for the missing man.
Photos courtesy of good Samaritan.... [Read More]
October 28, 2016
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October 28, 2016
DETROIT — The Coast Guard recently responded to several cases in which boaters and their vessels were not adequately prepared for the elements.
As the fall progresses, air and water temperatures are dropping steadily.
These temperature changes have an immediate and drastic impact on survival time. In order to ensure their safety, recreational boaters should remember to do the following:... [Read More]
October 28, 2016
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SINGAPORE — A U.S. Coast Guard International Port Security Team completed a bilateral engagement with Papua New Guinea officials from 17-21 Oct.
This engagement involved sharing best practices and visiting with the Papua New Guinea Department of Transportation to observe the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code at two port facilities located in Kavieng and Port Moresby.... [Read More]
October 28, 2016
HONOLULU — An American tuna fishing company that regularly unloaded its catch in American Samoa, was convicted and sentenced Thursday for discharging oil into the South Pacific and for maintaining false records, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips for the District of Columbia.
The company, Pacific Breeze Fisheries LLC, owned the Fishing Vessel F/V Pacific Breeze, a tuna purse seiner that was responsible for the pollution.... [Read More]
October 28, 2016
By Coast Guard Auxiliarist Reid Oslin
Even more than 60 years later, Joanne LaVigne Schroer insists she can still see the ghost of Boston Light.
It’s just one of a treasure chest of childhood memories for Schroer, who spent her early years living with her family at the 300-year-old beacon on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor. Schroer’s father, Coast Guard Petty Officer Joseph LaVigne, was the keeper at Boston Light from 1948 through 1950.... [Read More]
October 27, 2016
EDITORS NOTE: Video of the helicopter rescue can be found HERE
BALTIMORE — Coast Guard crews rescued two boaters in two separate cases off Ocean City Thursday afternoon.
At approximately 12:30 p.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region received notification from the 90-foot vessel Instigator of a 64-year-old male suffering from a possible heart attack.... [Read More]
October 27, 2016
SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Coast Guard marked the end of a record year in counterdrug operations as the crew of Cutter Waesche from Alameda, California, offloaded more than 39,000 pounds of cocaine in San Diego Thursday, October 27.The Coast Guard and its interagency partners removed more than 416,600 pounds of cocaine worth over $5.6 billion in Fiscal Year 2016, which ran from Oct. 1, 2015, to Sept. 30, 2016.... [Read More]
October 27, 2016
Editor’s Note: Coast Guardsmen will offload more than 39,000 pounds of cocaine Thursday at 10 a.m. during an event at Naval Base San Diego. Officials will announce a more than 416,000-pound record drug removal for the Coast Guard, including5,600 pounds of cocaine seized in this self-propelled semisubmersible interdiction. For more information on the offload event, please click here. For video of the interdiction, please click here. ... [Read More]