New York – A rescue crew from Coast Guard Station Shinnecock medevaced a woman with potential spine injuries aboard a cruise ship anchored 3 miles south of East Hampton just before 8 p.m. today.
The 27-year-old female crew member of the Norwegian Dawn was working in a store room below decks when a heavy box fell [...]
Posts on ‘May 7th, 2007’
Coast Guard Medevacs Woman from Cruise Ship
Coast Guard’s Kluckhuhn started under the radar on vessel-tracking system
Great story from Government Computer News concerning one of the winners of the
GCN IT Leadership Awards 2007
As an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot for the Coast Guard, one of Lt. Cmdr. Chris Kluckhuhn’s jobs was to log information about vessels he sighted off Cape Cod, Mass.
Kluckhuhn and his crew jotted information about the vessels on scraps [...]
Coast Guard Urges Boaters to Exercise Caution in Vicinity of Dive Flags
HONOLULU – The Coast Guard is urging boaters to exercise caution in the vicinity of dive flags and familiarize themselves with those activities that require the use of dive flags. Recent incidents in which divers were injured as a result of vessels operating too close to divers have brought to light the need to [...]
Coast Guard Saves Nine Lives from Three Sailboats
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard rescued nine people today from three sailboats off the coast of North Carolina.
A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew based out of Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., landed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point with the latest survivors, who were plucked from their sailboat about 120 miles off [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Six; Assisting Three More
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard has rescued six people from two distressed sailboats off the coast of North Carolina, and is responding to three more people in need.
A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew based out of Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., is en route to sailors aboard the sailboat Illusion about 120-miles off [...]
Multi-Agency Search for a 47-Year Old Man in Lake Pontchartrain
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is searching for a 47-year old man who fell overboard Saturday around 5 p.m. in the western end of Lake Pontchartrain after his boat became disabled.
Coast Guard District Eight received the call around 7 p.m. Saturday from the daughter of the man, explaining that her mother and her father [...]
America’s Tall Ship Makes First of Two Visits to San Juan
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Coast Guard Barque EAGLE, “America’s Tall Ship,” is scheduled to arrive in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 10 at 10 a.m. and stay through May 13.
While in port, the EAGLE will be moored in Pier 1 west, and will be offering free public tours. These tours of the [...]