BOSTON – The Coast Guard rescued seven people today after they became stranded aboard a disabled charter boat in threatening seas off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass.
Coast Guard Station Chatham received a report at 10:15 a.m. that the Dear Abbie, a 34-foot sport fishing craft from Chatham, had lost electrical power and were adrift [...]
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Coast Guard Rescues 7 Off Cape Cod
Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Wilmington Schedules Change of Command
WILMINGTON, NC – The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit, Wilmington will welcome its new Commanding Officer during a Change of Command ceremony at Thalian Hall in Wilmington, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on June 15, 2007. The presiding official for this ceremony will be Captain William “Dean” Lee, Commander of Coast Guard Sector North [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 98 Migrants to 3 Separate Countries
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur repatriated 23 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba, Tuesday; the Cutter Resolute repatriated 50 Haitian migrants to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, and the crew of the Cutter Cushing repatriated 25 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic, Sunday.
The Coast Guard Cutter Chincoteague assisted the Puerto [...]
U.S. Coast Guard rescues 2 from sea cave near Owen Point, British Columbia
Two pulled from sea cave near Owen Point
SEATTLE – Two people were rescued by the Coast Guard from a sea cave at Owen Point on Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew, B.C., Monday.
The Canadian coast guard in Victoria, B.C., notified Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles at 5:40 p.m. that a man had reported two of [...]
Oil Wellhead Polluting Louisiana Canal
Morgan City, LA – On 11 June 07 the National Response Center received a report of a uncontrolled wellhead release occurring at approximately 10:30 a.m., in a remote, dead-end canal off of Freshwater Bayou or approximately 4 miles due East of the Freshwater Bayou Locks, near Freshwater City, LA.
No injuries have been confirmed and although [...]
Coast Guard on Squidoo Video Updates
Coast Guard Rescues on Squidoo has been updated with footage of a vessel taking on water near Cape May, NJ.
Coast Guard Aviation on Squidoo has been updated with footage of a the May 30th medevac of an ATV rider in Northern California. The Air Station Humboldt Bay helicopter hovered at 13o feet during the entire [...]