MIAMI – Officials of the Turks and Caicos Island government no longer need the assistance of the Coast Guard for the search of undocumented Haitian migrants reported to have capsized on a 30-foot Haitian sailing-freighter at 4:30 a.m. a half mile south of Provodenciales Island in the Turks and Caicos today.
Coast Guard officials were notified [...]
Posts on ‘May 4th, 2007’
Coast Guard No Longer Involved in Haitian Search Efforts
Coast Guard Repatriates Another 60 Cubans, 195 Haitians
MIAMI РThe crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Key Biscayne repatriated 60 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Caba̱as, Cuba yesterday and the Cutter Dauntless repatriated 195 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti today.
April 28, crews from Station Marathon transferred six Cuban migrants to the Cutter Willow after they were seen floating in three [...]
Coast Guard Investigates Cause of McTeer Bridge Collision
BEAUFORT, S.C. — The following is a time line of events leading up to the collision of a crane and the McTeer Bridge in Beaufort April 27.
The tug Sara Kaitlin with multiple barges, including one with an attached crane, departed Charleston, S.C., en route to Savannah on the evening of April 26.
Vessels traveling on the [...]
Coast Guard To Participate In Middle School Maritime Fair
FT. MYERS BEACH, Fla. – The Coast Guard is scheduled to participate in a “Maritime Fair” at Cypress Lake Middle School, in Ft. Myers, Fla., from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on May 7.
Crewmembers from Coast Guard Station Ft. Myers Beach and local Coast Guard Auxiliary members will conduct boating safety presentations and a [...]
Coast Guard Launches Merchant Mariner Website
WASHINGTON – Today the Coast Guard launched a website to provide merchant mariners with real-time information on the status of pending mariner credential applications.
Merchant mariners can check the status of application packages throughout the verification and approval process by logging onto Homeport website, clicking on the Merchant Mariners tab and then clicking on Merchant Mariner [...]
Coast Guard Rescues 10, 58 Still Missing from Capsized Freighter
MIAMI – The Coast Guard is searching for approximately 58 undocumented migrants after a 25 to 30-foot Haitian sail-freighter capsized approximately one-half mile south of the Providenciales Island in the Turks and Caicos.
Coast Guard officials working for Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos were immediately notified by Turks and Caicos police [...]