JUNEAU, Alaska – When a fisherman fell from the fishing vessel Kelcy Michelle into the frigid waters of Icy Strait, help was literally seconds away. Crewmembers from Coast Guard Cutter Liberty, already maneuvering toward the fishing vessel in a small-boat for a boarding, plucked the man from the 34 degree water in only one [...]
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Heavy Fog in Houston Ship Channel Stops Traffic
HOUSTON – Heavy fog over the past few days has caused a delay in the ship traffic moving through the Houston Ship Channel. The Coast Guard does not close the ship channel due to fog, the Houston and Texas City Pilots Associations do not operate because the conditions make the transits too dangerous to move [...]
Green Bay Ice Operations
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw will enter Green Bay at Rock Island Passage on or about the first of March and will operate in Green Bay the first two weeks of March. While in Green Bay, Mackinaw will be performing a series of operational tests to evaluate and record the performance of shipboard systems [...]
Cutter Mackinaw Opens Southern Lake Michigan Ports
Portage, Ind. – For only the second time in nearly 30 years, the Coast Guard has been requested to conduct domestic icebreaking operations in Southern Lake Michigan in support of the tug/barge industry.
The last federal icebreaker operating in these ports was the Cutter Mobile Bay who conducted escort duty in March of 2003.
On February [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – February 24th
1964- A U.S. Coast Guard ice skiff rescued 25 persons from an ice flow that had broken loose from the shore near Camp Perry, Ohio. A similar rescue took place almost simultaneously at St. Clair Shores, Michigan when another Coast Guard ice skiff and a police helicopter removed five more from an ice flow.
1987- Coast [...]