NEW YORK–Local rescue agencies suspended at approximately 7:45 p.m. today a search for a shore fisherman who was reported missing in Stoneybrook, N.Y., just after 12 p.m. today.
The Suffolk County Police Department received a report from Katherine Rihm after her husband Bill, 45, had been overdue from a fishing trip, a trip that he departed [...]
Posts on ‘June 9th, 2007’
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Fisherman
Coast Guard Rescues 1 From Overturned Boat, 2nd Man Missing
TOLEDO, Ohio – Coast Guard Station Toledo and Air Station Detroit responded to a distress signal a mile off shore of Lake Erie near Monroe County Friday night.
One man was rescued and another man is missing after their boat capsized following a 13-hour search.
At 8:15 p.m., Friday, Coast Guard Station Toledo received a distress call [...]
Coast Guard safely removes hazardous material from Totten Inlet
SEATTLE – Crews from Coast Guard Sector Seattle completed the removal of oil products and hazardous materials Thursday afternoon, from the 185-foot fishing vessel Kopcakoe in the Totten Inlet near Olympia, Wash.
The owner of the Kopcakoe had repeatedly failed to comply with Coast Guard requirements causing the Coast Guard and Department of Natural Resources to [...]
Coast Guard Disables Smuggling Vessel After Attempted Ramming
FT. MYERS, Fla.- Crews from Coast Guard Station Ft. Myers Beach, in Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., disabled a 29-foot go-fast smuggling vessel headed outbound from San Carlos Bay, in Sanibel Island, Fla., at about 5 a.m. today.
The Coast Guard crew came across the vessel during a routine law-enforcement patrol at about 3:45 a.m. today. [...]
Two Arrested for Shooting Out Buoy in Green Harbor
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The light of this navigational buoy is destroyed from what are thought to have been gunshots fired before sunrise, June 9, 2007. (Photo courtesy Marshfield Harbor Master.)
BOSTON – The sound of pre-dawn gun fire and damage to a harbor buoy prompted a Coast Guard and local police response and the arrest of two men in [...]
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Possible Vessel Aground
New York – Local rescue agencies suspended at 9:00 am today an early morning land and sea search for a vessel that reported grounding in heavy fog in Byrum River near Eaton’s Neck.The Coast Guard received a distress call via marine band radio channel 16 from a vessel that reported running aground in the Byrum [...]
Coast Guard Assists Two Adults and Child Lost on James River
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard crew assisted two adults and a three-year-old child after they became disoriented in foul weather on board their 18-foot boat in the upper James River early Saturday morning.
Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads received a call at about midnight from the boat’s female operator, stating that she was lost on [...]