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Posts on ‘February 11th, 2007’

Squidoo Updates

Coast Guard on Squidoo has a new video up from the Coast Guard Channel.
Coast Guard Aviation on Squidoo has a cool new video taken from the cockpit of an HU-25 Guardian landing at Air Station Miami.
Coast Guard Rescues on Squidoo has a new video up of a surfer in distress.

Tsunami Tsue: Roller Coastie

By Petty Officer Second Class Kip Wadlow
PORTSMOUTH, Va.- She waits. Her body is encased in protective armor, carefully honed through months of training in anticipation of this moment. Muscles tense, coiled for attack.
Frozen in place, she hungrily eyes her prey, in sight but out of reach. The shriek of a whistle sends her quarry scampering [...]

Coast Guard Medevacs Sailor With Chest Pains

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A fisherman was medevaced this afternoon by the Coast Guard after crewmembers reported that he was suffering from chest pains.
Using a satellite phone, crewmembers aboard the fishing vessel Persistance, a 128-foot commercial fishing vessel homeported in Boston, Mass., notified the Coast Guard that fellow crewmember, Paul Stone, 46, was suffering from [...]

Coast Guard Sinks Abandoned Creole Belle

BOSTON – The Coast Guard has confirmed that the owner of the Creole Belle, whose crew was airlifted by a Coast Guard helicopter Thursday evening, abandoned the fishing vessel Saturday after a salvage company deemed the scallop boat unsafe to tow.
A private salvor hired by Creole Belle’s owner arrived on scene at 8:00 a.m. Saturday [...]

Today in Coast Guard History – February 11th

1973- Due to “Vietnamization”, the draw down of U.S. forces in Vietnam, the post of Senior Coast Guard Officer, Vietnam was discontinued.