 MIAMI – The Coast Guard has begun a search for a 42 year-old woman from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reported to have fallen off the 49-foot sport fisher, Do Diligence, around 4:30 p.m., 35 miles south of Freeport, Bahamas.
The Do Diligence captain reported that the woman was last seen around 4:30 p.m., leaving the bridge. [...]
Posts on ‘July 3rd, 2007’
Coast Guard Searching for Woman Who Fell Off Yacht
Coast Guard responds to troubled boaters, stresses saftey
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard was requested to help a vessel in distress off of Point Partidge.
Four people aboard a 27-foot pleasure craft called for help at 12:43 p.m. reporting that they saw water and smoke in their engine compartment. An HH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles and a helicopter from [...]
Intoxicated Boater Runs Aground and Afoul of the Law
 BOSTON- The Coast Guard assisted in the arrest of an intoxicated boater Monday night near Jerusalem, R.I.
Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England received a 911 call around 10 p.m., citing multiple reports of a vessel aground on the West Gap Jetty.
Coast Guard Station Point Judith responded with a 27-foot response boat, arriving on-scene around 10:25 [...]
Fourth of July Boating and Paddling Safety
BOSTON – The Fourth of July holiday is not only the busiest boating period of the year, but it also holds the distinction of being the deadliest, both nationwide and in the Northeast.
“The Fourth of July holiday period the deadliest boating and paddling holiday of the year,” said Al Johnson, recreational boating safety specialist for [...]
Two rescued by Coast Guard helicopter crews
 SEATTLE – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a man who was injured after diving from a waterfall and a woman who became stranded after being thrown into the water while on a rafting trip Sunday evening.
Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Ore., received a request for assistance from the Gray’s Harbor, Wash., dispatch center for a [...]
Swimmer rescued near Warrenton, Oregon
 SEATTLE – A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a swimmer from the waters near Warrenton, Ore., yesterday.
Coast Guard Air Station Astoria received a relayed call from 911 operators at 11:01 a.m. that two swimmers had been caught in a riptide and were pulled out to sea. An HH-60 helicopter crew was diverted to the [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Man on Ugashik River in Alaska
 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and crew from Air Station Kodiak are searching for a crewman reported missing from the fishing vessel Nezzen early this morning on the Ugashik River in Bristol Bay.
The man was discovered missing just before 1 a.m. today. The master of the vessel immediately notified the Pilot [...]