NEW ORLEANS – At approximately 12:00 p.m. the Coast Guard received a request to medevac a 74-year-old man who had sustained an injury aboard the cruise ship Carnival Conquest.
A HH-65C rescue helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans was launched to medevac the man from the cruise ship, which was approximately 230 miles south [...]
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Coast Guard Crew Medevacs Injured from Cruise Ship
Coast Guard Suspends Mystery Kayak Case
BOSTON – Lacking any leads or indications a kayaker was in distress the Coast Guard suspended its search regarding an overturned kayak found adrift today near Plum Island and Ipswitch Bay, Mass.
A 13-foot kayak was located by a boater about about noon today. A 47-foot motor life boat from Coast Guard Station Merrimack River and [...]
High Praise From Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis Commanding Officer at Change of Command
HONOLULU – The outgoing captain of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis thanked the boat’s crew for their tremendous efforts over the past two years during a change of command ceremony Friday evening.
“I am convinced without question that the blood, sweat, and tears that you have given Jarvis over the past two years,” said Capt. [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Five People From Water
HONOLULU – Coast Guard search and rescue crews today rescued five people from the water after their outrigger canoe at about 9 a.m. approximately two miles off Diamond Head.
A Good Samaritan vessel contacted the Coast Guard Sector Command Center Honolulu on VHF channel 16 that nine people from two outrigger canoes were in the water [...]
Coast Guard Seeking Information on Possible Kayaking Accident
BOSTON – The Coast Guard is urgently seeking information about an adrift and overturned kayak found today near Plum Island, and Ipswitch Bay, Mass.
The 13-foot kayak was located by a boater about about noon today. A 47-foot motor life boat from Coast Guard Station Merrimack River and an H-60 helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station [...]
Coast Guard Assists 5 Children, 2 Adults
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – An Oxford, Md., Coast Guard crew assisted five children and two adults after they became lost and ran out of fuel on a 29-foot boat north of James Island, Md., Friday night.
Coast Guard Sector Baltimore was notified of the situation at about midnight, at which point the operator of the boat indicated [...]
Two Rescued From Downed Aircraft
 HONOLULU – Two people Friday evening were rescued from a life raft shortly after the small plane they were in crashed into the water about two miles south of Koko Head.
Honolulu Fire Department rescue personnel in Air 1 airlifted one person from the raft to shore where an awaiting ambulance further transported the person for [...]