A Greek shipping firm will pay a $750,000 civil fine in the latest example of a federal crackdown on ships dumping oil sludge overboard.
The case originated with Coast Guard inspectors boarding the Panamanian-flagged freighter Irika during a call in Vancouver last fall. U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton on Tuesday sentenced ship owner Irika Maritime [...]
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CGNewsTip: Shipping Firm Fined $750,000 for Oil Sludge Dump
Coast Guard Formally Charges Airboat Captain
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Coast Guard is formally charging an airboat captain today with negligence and is opening a formal hearing board to revoke or suspend his merchant mariner’s license after the death of a seven-year-old passenger June 9, 2006.
Bruce Fryer, the operator of an airboat from Central Florida Airboat Tours, was illegally carrying [...]
Update: Medevaced Man from Oil Platform Safely Ashore
HOUSTON – The crewman medevaced by the Coast Guard from an oil platform located about 120 miles south southeast of Sabine, Texas, was brought safely ashore this morning at Lake Charles, La.
A rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston arrived at platform East Cameron 328 at approximately 7:40 a.m. today and hoisted the [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 47 Cuban Migrants
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Key Biscayne repatriated 47 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cubanas, Cuba at 11:30 a.m. today.
A Coast Guard “Falcon” jet crew from Air Station Miami located two go-fast vessels January 18 in the vicinty of Cay Sal Banks, Bahamas. The Coast Guard Cutter Tempest, along with [...]
Coast Guard Looks to Space for Maritime Awareness
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard announced today its intention to explore increased use of space as a tool to enhance awareness of activities in ports, coastal waters and their approaches.
“The Coast Guard has been using space systems for communications, navigation and weather since they first became available, but our use of space may increase [...]
Gold Life Saving Medal Awarded to Ryan Newhall
SAN ANTONIO – Coast Guard Cmdr. Christopher J. Woodley, awarded Ryan Newhall with the Coast Guard Gold Life Saving Medal , Saturday Jan. 20, 2007, at an award ceremony here. Newhall, the former deck boss aboard the fish-processing vessel Galaxy, which sank in the Bering Sea in 2002, received the medal for his heroic actions [...]
Coast Guard Headquarters Building Sold
WASHINGTON – GSH (Global Securities House), a Kuwait-based real estate advisory firm, announced today the sale of the Transpoint Building. Located at 2100 2nd Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., Transpoint is a 600,000 square foot, seven story office building leased 100% to the United States Government on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard. The property was [...]