HOUSTON – The search continues for two fishermen near Freeport, Texas, who have been missing since Wednesday morning.
The two men, Michael Prahm, 27, and Aaron Philiere, 29, are from the Houston area. They departed the Bridge Bait and Tackle Slip in Freeport Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. in a 23-foot Mako boat. Their [...]
Posts on ‘May 17th, 2007’
Search continues for missing fishermen
Cutter completes successful patrol; rescues, assists more than 897 migrants
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The Coast Guard Cutter Decisive returned to its homeport here, today after completing an eight-week multi-mission deployment in the Florida Straits and Windward Passage.
The Decisive conducted search and rescue, migrant interdiction, drug enforcement, humanitarian operations and enforcement of U.S. Laws and treaties during the patrol.
Since departing in March, the cutter Decisive [...]
Coast Guard Sector Mobile to Hold Change of Command
MOBILE, Ala. – On Friday, May 18th at 10:00 a.m., Captain James D. Bjostad will be relieved by Captain Edwin M. Stanton in a formal change of command ceremony at USCG Base Mobile on South Broad Street.
The change of command is a time-honored naval tradition where the current commanding officer is formally relieved in a [...]
Coast Guard evacuates injured crewman
SEATTLE – A 28-year old man was medically evacuated by the Coast Guard from a fishing vessel Wednesday afternoon.
The crew of a Coast Guard Station Grays Harbor, Wash., 47-foot motor lifeboat medically evacuated the man from the 310-foot fish processing vessel Golden Alaska approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Grays Harbor after he fell 15-20 [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Fishermen
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Coast Air Facility Charleston medically evacuated a fisherman with a laceration on his arm approximately 80-miles off the coast of Charleston Wednesday night.
Larry Horne, 55, of Charleston, was injured while fishing off the coast of Charleston. His crew requested assistance from the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane, which was in the area. [...]
Gallatin Crew Paints Colombian School
CARTAGENA, Columbia — Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin, Columbian coast guard and navy joined together to paint Santa Maria Grade School the Daniel Lemaitre District in Cartagena May 9.
The seven room school, built around a central square used for outdoor activities, was in dire need of a coat of paint. The group united [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Tybee Commissioned
WOODS HOLE, MASS. – The Coast Guard Cutter Tybee was commissioned during a ceremony here today. The Tybee, a 110-foot Island-Class patrol boat commanded by Lt. Blake Stockwell, will be homeported here.
During the traditional commissioning ceremony, Capt. Roy Nash, commander of Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, read the commissioning orders and granted Stockwell [...]