MIAMI – The Coast Guard is searching for a man who fell off a 27-foot boat in the vicinity of Elliot Key, Fla Sunday night.
Coast Guard search and rescue coordinators in Miami received a distress call over VHF channel 16 from a male aboard the 27-foot vessel who said the male on the boat had [...]
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Coast Guard Searching for Missing Boater in Florida’s Biscayne Bay
Coast Guard Airlifts Woman After Cliff Fall
BOSTON – A 74-year-old woman who fell from a cliff into a 25-foot-deep ravine near Beavertail Lighthouse in Jamestown, R.I., was rushed to the hospital in a Coast Guard helicopter today.
Jamestown Fire Department requested Coast-Guard air support about noon for the North Kingstown, R.I , resident who suffered trauma after falling.
She was airlifted at 1 [...]
Coast Guard finds kayaker, stresses importance of life jackets
 HOUSTON – The Coast Guard located a kayaker in the water near Surfside, Texas, this afternoon.
Coast Guard Station Freeport received a call at 1 p.m. reporting a person in the water and immediately dispatched a rescue boat.
The boat crew spotted the man floating next to a kayak. The crew immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation and transported [...]
Coast Guard Rescues 3 Near Milwaukee
 MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Coast Guard rescued three people in the water near the Oak Creek power plant at approximately 10:15 p.m. Saturday after their boat sank.
Coast Guard Station Milwaukee’s crew launched their 41-foot utility boat and a 25-foot response boat and pulled the three people out of the water.
The Coast Guard received a [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Man from Cruise Ship
 MIAMI – A Coast Guard Air Station Miami rescue crew medically evacuated a 62-year-old male from a cruise ship 100-miles southeast of Miami Saturday evening.
The Coast Guard received a call at 9:30 p.m. Friday from a doctor aboard the Miami based, 1,112-foot Royal Caribbean cruise ship Freedom of the Seas, reporting Mathis Lee, from Miami, [...]
Coast Guard Rescues 4 from Gulf of Mexico
NEW ORLEANS – Coast Guard crews rescued four people from the Gulf of Mexico earlier today.
At approximately 3:30 a.m., a watchstander from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., received a distress call from the crew of a fishing vessel, who reported that the vessel was taking on water approximately 50 miles south of Panama [...]
Coast Guard rescues 6 in Galveston Bay
 HOUSTON – The Coast Guard located and rescued six people from a grounded boat in Galveston Bay, last night.
The Coast Guard was notified at 7 p.m.of the stranded boaters and Air Station Houston launched a rescue helicopter and Station Galveston dispatched a rescue boat.
The helicopter crew located the boat and safely hoisted all six [...]