 SEATTLE – Coast Guard Port Security Unit (PSU) 313, homeported in Tacoma, Wash., will conduct a boat tactic exercise Friday and Saturday in Port Townsend Bay off the shore of Naval Magazine Indian Island.
The unit is training members for Tactical Boat Crew Qualifications that are necessary to ensure every member has the proper knowledge [...]
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Coast Guard to perform tactical training in Port Townsend Bay
Search for missing diver continues
 LOS ANGELES – The Coast Guard has identified the diver who went missing this morning as Mr. Stewart Hindley, age 54, of Glen Ellen, Calif. Mr. Hindley went missing while participating in a recreational dive off of the southeastern side of Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands National Park.
The Coast Guard command center in [...]
Search Suspended for Charter Boat with 30 Passengers
 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Coast Guard and Dominican Republic Navy rescue crews suspended their search today for more than 30 people aboard a disabled charter boat reported missing Monday, while on a recreational boating trip along the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic Navy notified the Coast Guard Monday evening after [...]
Coast Guard crews rescue Pennsylvania woman
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Coast Guard crews rescued a boater today after she reportedly suffered from heart attack symptoms while aboard the Adventurer, a 65-foot pleasure craft, about nine miles east of Cape May, N.J.
Rescued was Robin Kennedy, 42, from Croydon, Pa.
The Coast Guard received the call at about 11:30 a.m. and directed the [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Five Near Chincoteague
 Chincoteague, Va. – Five fishermen were rescued after their 25-foot charter fishing vessel, Two Aces, suffered an engine casualty and began taking on water off shore here, today.
Cody Dillman of Quakertown, Penn., Wally and Katie Isenberg of Salford, Penn., and John and Margaret Morton of Chincoteague, were fishing offshore when the vessel began taking on [...]
Houston student recieves Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award
 HOUSTON – Melanie Acker recieves the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award from Capt. William Diehl, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston, at the West Gulf Maritime Association here Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Acker, 16, recieved the award for saving the lives of four college men in September 2006 while swimming in Village [...]
New Commander Takes Helm of Eleventh Coast Guard District
Rear Admiral Jody Breckenridge to Assume New Responsibilities at Coast Guard Headquarters
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard appointed a new commander for the 11th Coast Guard District this morning, during a change of command ceremony at Coast Guard Island in Alameda. Rear Admiral Craig E. Bone has taken over command from Rear Admiral [...]