Coast Guard News
July 25, 2015
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday for two missing swimmers near Cove Point Light Station.Calvert County 911 Dispatch notified Coast Guard Sector Baltimore watchstanders Friday at approximately 7:30 p.m. reporting the two swimmers had not returned to shore.
The Coast Guard searched an 80-square-mile area for the missing men.... [Read More]
July 25, 2015
Austin Stephanos, 14.
Perry Cohen, 14.
MIAMI — Coast Guard search-and-rescue crews continue the search for two boys reported overdue after not returning from their fishing trip in the vicinity of Jupiter, Florida, Saturday.
Austin Stephanos, 14, and Perry Cohen, 14, are missing. The pair was last seen in the Jupiter area.... [Read More]
July 25, 2015
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard, along with state and local agencies, are searching for a missing boater Saturday in the Wicomico River near Salisbury.The name of the missing boater is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.The missing boater is described as a white male with long hair, approximately 6'1" and 200 pounds.A good Samaritan notified Coast Guard Sector Baltimore watchstanders Saturday at approximately 1 a.m.... [Read More]
July 25, 2015
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard, along with state and local agencies, are searching for two missing swimmers Saturday near Cove Point Light Station.Missing are two white males approximately 40 years old.One of the men is approximately 280 pounds with tattoos wearing black and blue swim trunks.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
MIAMI — Coast Guard search-and-rescue crews are searching for two boys reported overdue in the vicinity of Jupiter, Florida, Friday.
At approximately 5 p.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Miami received the report that both boys, 14, were aboard a 19-foot white single engine center console vessel believed to be heading towards the Bahamas on a fishing trip. They were last seen at approximately 1:30 p.m after purchasing $110 worth of fuel.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
Capt. Joe Raymond, commander of Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound in Seattle, pins the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award medal to Grace Meeks during a ceremony, where both her and her father Sean received the award, at Coast Guard Base Seattle, July 24, 2015.
They were able to recover three people out of the water, and assist five others, after coming across a capsized vessel near Bainbridge Island in August 2014.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Lt. Megan Willmann relieved Lt. Cmdr. Laura Miller and assumed command of the Coast Guard Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center during a change-of-command ceremony held on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Friday.
Prior to reporting to PRFTC, Willmann served as the executive officer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak, homeported in Bayonne, New Jersey. Her immediate previous assignment was as the executive officer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bainbridge Island, which was decommissioned March 2014.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard has reopened the majority of the Illinois River to recreational vessel traffic, with one portion remaining closed, today.
The span from mile marker 50, five miles south of Florence, Illinois, to mile marker 101.9, five miles north of Browning, Illinois, will remain closed until further notice.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
KEY WEST, Fla. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returned home to Key West, Florida, Sunday after an exciting and eventful 65-day patrol operating off the coast of Central and South America.
Thetis, a 270 foot cutter based out of Key West, Florida, is a multi-mission platform. Over the last 65 days the cutter and her crew transited through the Panama Canal in order to conduct operations supporting diverse Coast Guard missions, primarily drug interdiction, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
MORGAN CITY, La. – The East Wax Lake Spill Unified Command will be conducting an in-situ burn on a section of marsh affected by 1,050 gallons of oil near Belle Isle, St. Mary’s Parish, July 25.
In-situ burning is the process of burning oil on the water. Any burn operation includes careful air monitoring to ensure smoke or residue resulting from the burn does not adversely impact people or wildlife.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
MIAMI — More than 570 baby sea turtles are scheduled to be released back into the Atlantic Ocean Monday in a joint effort between the Coast Guard and the Gumbo-Limbo Nature Center.
In support of the Coast Guard’s commitment to protecting endangered species and the marine environment, crewmembers from Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will transport marine scientists and volunteers from the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center offshore to assist in the release of the hatchlings.... [Read More]
July 24, 2015
WARRENTON, Ore. — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter crew from Air Station Astoria assisted Tillamook County emergency responders with the medevac of an injured woman on the Elk Creek Campground trail near Tillamook, Thursday.
The 49-year-old woman, who had reportedly suffered leg injury, was safely hoisted and brought to Tillamook County General Hospital for further medical care.... [Read More]
July 23, 2015
An Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoists an ailing passenger from a cruise ship approximately 70 miles east of Kodiak Island, July 22, 2015.
The 83 year-old man, along with a nurse from the ship, was transferred to awaiting emergency medical services at Air Station Kodiak.
U.S. Coast Guard video.
An Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew transfers a patient to emergency medical personnel after hoisting him from a cruise ship, July 22, 2015. ... [Read More]
July 23, 2015
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City hoisted and transferred a beached buoy Thursday from Fortescue to Coast Guard Training Center Cape May. The buoy will be serviced by Aids to Navigation Team Cape May. U.S. Coast Guard video by Chief Petty Officer Nick Ameen and Petty Officer 3rd Class David Micallef
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July 23, 2015
LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A man and a woman were rescued by the Coast Guard and a good Samaritan after they fell off their kayaks in the vicinity of Incline Beach on North Lake Tahoe Wednesday. The kayakers were paddling near Incline Beach at approximately 3:20 p.m., when both adults fell off of their kayaks and were unable to get back on and drifted apart from each other. A Coast Guard Station Lake Tahoe boatcrew launched and assisted the kayakers shortly after they were reported in the water.... [Read More]
July 23, 2015
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Coast Guard cutter crews caught four Mexican nationals illegally fishing in U.S. Waters off Texas Wednesday.
Tuesday at 10:53 p.m., the Coast Guard Cutter Amberjack’s crew sighted a potential lancha, or Mexican fishing boat, approximately 15 nautical miles north of the U.S./Mexican maritime border.... [Read More]
July 23, 2015
A Coast Guard crew member from Station Sheboygan assesses passengers aboard a 29-foot vessel after it ran up onto the Sheboygan breakwall, July 22, 2015. The operator of the boat mistook lights on land for a marking near the entry to a river leading to the Sheboygan marina. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Anthony Valeri)
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July 23, 2015
SEATTLE — Coast Guard officials are scheduled to present a Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award to two Bainbridge Island residents at a ceremony being held at Coast Guard Base Seattle, Friday.
Sean Meek and his daughter, Grace Meek, are receiving the award for their rescue of seven adults, a child and a dog from a capsized vessel in Eagle Harbor near Bainbridge Island on August 31, 2014.... [Read More]
July 23, 2015
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KOTZEBUE, Alaska - A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew conducts a Search and Rescue demonstration in Kotzebue Sound Saturday, August 7, 2010.
The Jayhawk helicopter crew is one of three helicopters operating out of Forward Operating Location Kotzebue for Operation Arctic Crossroads 2010.... [Read More]
July 23, 2015
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoists four fishermen from the fishing vessel Savannah Ray after they ran aground in Chiniak Bay near Kodiak Island, Alaska, Feb. 16, 2015.
The helicopter crew hoisted the four fishermen from their grounded vessel and transferred them to awaiting emergency medical services in Kodiak.
U.S. Coast Guard video.... [Read More]