Coast Guard News
August 5, 2015
Coast Guard photo courtesy Coast Guard Sector Honolulu.
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard is searching for the user of a dive float reported adrift in the Au’Au Channel between Lanai and Maui, Wednesday.
A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point is currently searching the area for any signs of divers or distress. ... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
Video of the reunion is available online
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City aircrew reunited with Damian Sexton and his family at Coast Guard Station Atlantic City.
Sexton was medevaced by the aircrew Sunday from the 39-foot recreational vessel, the Sea Robin, approximately 44 miles east of Cape May.
"I thought there was no chance in the world that I was going to come out alive," said Sexton. "It seems like everything came together and it's all because of you guys." ... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
Video of the reunion is available online
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City aircrew reunited with Damian Sexton and his family at Coast Guard Station Atlantic City.
Sexton was medevaced by the aircrew Sunday from the 39-foot recreational vessel, the Sea Robin, approximately 44 miles east of Cape May.
"I thought there was no chance in the world that I was going to come out alive," said Sexton. "It seems like everything came together and it's all because of you guys." ... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound is scheduled to host the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement in support of maritime search and rescue responses and other Coast Guard missions at Coast Guard Station New London, Thursday.
The signing of this MOA will further foster interagency relationships in Sector Long Island Sound through scheduled Coast Guard search and rescue training.
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August 5, 2015
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound is scheduled to host the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement in support of maritime search and rescue responses and other Coast Guard missions at Coast Guard Station New London, Thursday.
The signing of this MOA will further foster interagency relationships in Sector Long Island Sound through scheduled Coast Guard search and rescue training.
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The Coast Guard has located the owner of an overturned Hobie Cat that was found in Lake Superior about four miles northwest of Grand Marais, Michigan, Wednesday.
The owner is safe, on land. The vessel capsized July, 29 off of Keweenaw Peninsula with two passengers aboard. The two people were rescued by a good Samaritan, but the owner stated he was unable to recover the catamaran, which was left unmanned and adrift.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary took the vessel in tow and moored it to a breakwall in Grand Marais.... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The Coast Guard has located the owner of an overturned Hobie Cat that was found in Lake Superior about four miles northwest of Grand Marais, Michigan, Wednesday.
The owner is safe, on land. The vessel capsized July, 29 off of Keweenaw Peninsula with two passengers aboard. The two people were rescued by a good Samaritan, but the owner stated he was unable to recover the catamaran, which was left unmanned and adrift.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary took the vessel in tow and moored it to a breakwall in Grand Marais.... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Aspen and members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conduct hull maintenance on NOAA buoys approximately 30 nautical miles off the coast of Monterey Bay, California, between July 27-30, 2015. The Coast Guard and NOAA partnership originated in the late 1960s. Photo by Cutter Aspen.
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August 5, 2015
Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Aspen and members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conduct hull maintenance on NOAA buoys approximately 30 nautical miles off the coast of Monterey Bay, California, between July 27-30, 2015. The Coast Guard and NOAA partnership originated in the late 1960s. Photo by Cutter Aspen.
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August 5, 2015
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard helicopter crews and Texas City police and fire departments are searching for a missing wade fisherman who went missing Wednesday morning in Dickinson Bay across from San Leon, Texas.
Missing is Danny Joseph Kenney, a 26-year-old man described as being about 6-feet tall, 180 pounds with red hair, wearing a white shirt, brown pants and an orange lifejacket.... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard helicopter crews and Texas City police and fire departments are searching for a missing wade fisherman who went missing Wednesday morning in Dickinson Bay across from San Leon, Texas.
Missing is Danny Joseph Kenney, a 26-year-old man described as being about 6-feet tall, 180 pounds with red hair, wearing a white shirt, brown pants and an orange lifejacket.... [Read More]
August 5, 2015
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The U.S. Coast Guard seized a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel carrying more than 16,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean July 18.
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton from Alameda apprehended four suspected smugglers and seized 275 bales of cocaine worth more than $181 million wholesale from the self-propelled semi-submersible. A U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft detected the 40-foot semi-submersible vessel more than 200-miles south of Mexico. ... [Read More]
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August 4, 2015
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard continues to monitor and prepare for the arrival of Tropical Storm Guillermo in the main Hawaiian Islands and respond to damage in Guam and Saipan caused by Typhoon Soudelor, today, the Service’s 225th birthday. ... [Read More]
August 4, 2015
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard celebrated its 225th anniversary at the Coast Guard’s Douglas A. Munro Headquarters with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft, and Postmaster General Megan Brennan participating in a dedication of the Postal Service’s U.S. Coast Guard Forever stamp Tuesday.... [Read More]