SAN DIEGO – The Coast Guard received a phone call this morning just before twelve O’Clock from the father of one of the fisherman. He reported that his son and his companion usually departed around 8 O’Clock at night to set there lobster pots on the outskirts of the San Diego bay. He hadn’t [...]
Posts on ‘December 10th, 2006’
Good Samaritan Locates Missing Man 7 Miles off Miami Beach
MIAMI – The Coast Guard ended its three-day search for a Miami area boater, reported disabled somewhere near Cay Sal Banks in the Bahamas, after a Good Samaritan found the boater approximately seven miles off Miami Beach, Fla., today.
Eddie Hernandez, 32, used a satellite phone to contact Coast Guard Sector Miami Friday morning, [...]
Search For Gainey to Continue Through the Night
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Plans are being made to continue the search tonight for Laura Gainey, who went overboard from the sailing vessel Picton Castle about 470 miles southeast of Cape Cod.
Canadian and U.S. Coast Guard C-130 airplanes searched for her throughout the day, aided by the motor tanker Mindanao and the woman’s shipmates aboard [...]
Coast Guard’s Oldest Cutter
“Way up north by the ice bound ocean”…there is a ship…
EagleSpeak has a great post about the the CG Cutter Storis, the oldest cutter still in service. Stop by and check it out. EagleSpeak: Sunday Ship History: Coast Guard’s Oldest Cutter
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