Coast Guard News
December 3, 2014
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard has located the owner of an inflatable kayak found adrift approximately one mile off Olowalu Beach, Maui, Wednesday. The owner stated the kayak blew off the beach late in the night. The Coast Guard advises the public to label all watercraft and equipment with contact information in order to quickly account for owners and prevent any unnecessary searches.... [Read More]
December 3, 2014
EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to weather conditions in northern Michigan and scheduled cutter operations, we anticipate the Mackinaw arriving at Navy Pier sometime Thursday afternoon or evening, but are unable to provide a more definitive arrival time. As a result, a media availability will take place Friday at 8:45 a.m. at the west end of Navy Pier for the Christmas Ship Committee's "Welcome to Chicago" greeting for the ship and crew, a visit aboard the ship by two local school groups, and decorating of the ship with lights. ... [Read More]
December 3, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday afternoon for a missing man in the Christina River in the vicinity of the Port of Wilmington.Missing is Emanuel Gatling, 25.An employee from Norfolk Dredging Company contacted Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay Command Center watchstanders Tuesday at approximately 6:45 p.m. to report Gatling missing in the water.The employee reported three crewmembers fell into the water after a crane barge capsized. The barge was attached to the dredge Essex. Two of the men resurfaced from the water while Gatling remains missing.... [Read More]
December 3, 2014
MIAMI — Vessel traffic on the Intracoastal Waterway near Bal Harbour, Florida is restricted following an incident involving a yacht and the Broad Causeway bridge.
Due to the incident, only the bridge's west leaf is able to open. Restrictions on vessel traffic limit movement of large vessels with a width of 40 feet or less as only one half of the bridge is operational. ... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
A Coast Guard response crew from Station St. Ignace and a Tribal Conservation officer assist a boater back to shore after his vessel became disabled about three miles northwest of Cross Village, Mich. Another Coast Guard crew from the cutter Mackinaw came to the initial aid of the boater and took him and his vessel in side tow closer to shore. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Keith Fruncillo)
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December 2, 2014
MIAMI — The Coast Guard is responding to a reported incident involving a yacht and the Broad Causeway bridge in Miami Tuesday evening.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Miami command center received a report of an incident involving the east bridge of the causeway and a yacht, which made contact while the vessel was being towed by two tug boats. Fifteen people were reported to be aboard the yacht with no injuries.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
MIAMI — The Coast Guard is responding to a reported incident involving a yacht and the Broad Causeway bridge in Miami Tuesday evening.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Miami command center received a report of an incident involving the east bridge of the causeway and a yacht, which made contact while the vessel was being towed by two tug boats. Fifteen people were reported to be aboard the yacht with no injuries.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
BOSTON — A Coast Guard Station Brant Point, Massachusetts, crew transferred the tow of the 90-foot fishing vessel Madison Kate to a contracted salvage company at about noon, Tuesday, in the Great Round Shoal Channel.
At approximately 12:30 a.m., Monday, the fishing vessel Madison Kate notified watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that they were disabled due to a turbine casualty. The vessel had seven people aboard.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and their U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement counterparts are scheduled to participate in a rigorous two-week joint U.S.-Canadian maritime patrol training program starting Dec. 8, 2014, at the Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in Charleston, S.C.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard rescued a distressed surfer at Cliff House Cove near the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Tuesday afternoon.At 2:55 p.m., Coast Guard Sector San Francisco watchstanders received a report of a surfer in distress attempting to paddle back to shore.The Coast Guard issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast to mariners in the area to be on the lookout. ... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — Coast Guard and partner agencies are searching Tuesday for a missing man in the Christina River in the vicinity of the Port of Wilmington.Missing is Emanuel Gatling, 25.An employee from Norfolk Dredging Company contacted Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay Command Center watchstanders at approximately 6:45 p.m. to report Gatling missing in the water.The employee reported three crewmembers fell into the water after a crane barge capsized. The barge was attached to the dredge Essex.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
Media Note: Please RSVP to Lorraine Brooks at 757.398.6436 or Lorraine.C.Brooks@uscg.mil by 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard will commission its newest national security cutter, Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton (WMSL 753) during an 11 a.m. ceremony Saturday at the Port of Charleston-Union Pier Terminal in Charleston, South Carolina. The cutter will be homeported in Charleston at the Fleet Law Enforcement Training Center.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
MIAMI — Rear Adm. Jake Korn, Coast Guard 7th District commander, temporarily relieved Capt. Ric Rodriguez, commander of Coast Guard Sector Charleston, Monday due to loss of confidence in his abilities to command.
The deputy sector commander, Cmdr. Brian Falk, has assumed temporary command of Sector Charleston. Rodriguez has been reassigned to Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command in Portsmouth, Va.... [Read More]
December 2, 2014
Editor's note: For a high resolution image of the boat, audio of the mayday and a graphic of the search patterns, click on the thumbnails above.
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for 67-year-old Ron Ingraham who has been missing since Thursday after he placed a mayday call at 8:03 a.m. saying his vessel was taking on water and in danger of sinking 46 miles west of Kailua-Kona. ... [Read More]
December 1, 2014
An Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules airplane crew launches to assist the Kamchatka Border Guard Directorate in the search and rescue efforts of a crew from the 326-foot fishing vessel 501 Oryong in the Bering Sea, Dec. 1, 2014.
The 501 Oryong, a South Korean flagged vessel, was hit by a wave while the crew was hauling its catch and sank.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Diana Honings.... [Read More]
December 1, 2014
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard terminated the voyage of a commercial crab fishing vessel for numerous safety violations three miles west of Long Beach, Monday.
A 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew from Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment in Ilwaco escorted the crew of the 58-foot fishing vessel Shearwater Two to Ilwaco following the vessel’s voyage termination.... [Read More]
December 1, 2014
HONOLULU — The search continues Monday for a missing boater who placed a mayday call Thursday saying his vessel was taking on water and in danger of sinking 46 miles west of Kailua-Kona.
Currently searching are a Navy P-3 Orion and a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew.
An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point searched throughout the night Sunday.... [Read More]
December 1, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard completed an escort and tow of a disabled vessel to Moss Landing early Monday morning after the vessel experienced engine failure.
Coast Guard Sector San Francisco watchstanders received a report Sunday at 1:19 p.m., from Coast Guard Station Monterey of a 45-foot sailing vessel disabled and adrift approximately 40 miles offshore.... [Read More]
December 1, 2014
BOSTON — Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, homeported in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, assisted a disabled 90-foot fishing vessel approximately 70 miles east of Chatham, Massachusetts, Monday.
At approximately 12:30 a.m., Monday, the fishing vessel Madison Kate notified watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that they were disabled due to a turbine casualty.... [Read More]
December 1, 2014
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard medevaced four people from a vessel fire 35 miles southwest of Grand Isle, Monday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received the report from the offshore supply vessel Dustin Santos at 7a.m., of a vessel fire and four people in a life raft. The Dustin Santos recovered the four people from the life raft and transferred them to a nearby offshore platform in ship shoal block 154.... [Read More]