SEATTLE – Captain Stephen Metruck, the Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Sector Seattle, salutes Lieutenant Commander Jason Tama and Lieutenant Commander Steven Wheeler in a ceremony to initiate the use of the new Joint Harbor Operations Command (JHOC) today. The ceremony marked the first day of official use of the JHOC.
The JHOC is the [...]
Posts on ‘May 3rd, 2007’
Coast Guard energizes new Joint Harbor Operations Command
Coast Guard Boating Advisory – McDonald’s Air & Sea Show
MIAMI- The Coast Guard will be enforcing a restricted safety zone off Fort Lauderdale Beach, Fla., for the 2007 McDonald’s Air & Sea Show May 5 and 6.
The restricted safety zone will be four miles long, north to south, beginning north of Oakland Park Boulevard and extending south to the Port Everglades Inlet. The [...]
Coast Guard to Assist U.S. Virgin Islands Mariners with Fingerprinting, License Applications
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A Coast Guard Regional Exam Center REC representative will visit Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, from 9 to 10 May to assist mariners with fingerprinting and application packages for merchant mariner’s documents, licenses and certificates of registry.
Mariners that request fingerprinting services must provide a complete application and two forms of [...]
Coast Guard terminates vessel’s voyage
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard Cutter Alert terminated the voyage of the tribal fishing vessel Orbit Tuesday at 9:46 a.m., 20 miles west of Cape Alava, Wash.
Fishing vessel Orbit received 16 safety violations including: No documentation, Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon not properly mounted, all emergency alarms were either inoperable or disconnected, bilge pumps [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Returns from African Deployment
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare home ported in Portsmouth will return here Friday following a 108-day deployment to the Gulf of Guinea region of West Africa.
The Legare crew deployed to Africa in support of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Sixth Fleet’s long-term strategy to improve maritime [...]