 CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard rescued a 45-year-old male after he fell into the water near the Edgewater fishing pier at approximately 9:40 p.m. today.
Coast Guard Station Cleveland Harbor personnel launched their 25-foot response boat to aide the man in the water, after pulling him to safety on-board they transferred him to awaiting Emergency Medical [...]
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Coast Guard Rescues Man after Pier Mishap
Coast Guard Investigating Vessel Grounding in Harbortown Marina
 CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard is investigating the grounding of a 64-foot commercial tour sailing vessel at the entrance to the Harbortown Marina Tuesday at 8:10 p.m.
The sailing vessel Stars and Stripes, operated by Vagabond Tours in Hilton Head, S.C., grounded approximately 200 yards from the entrance to the marina. The vessel had [...]
Body recovered in missing diver search
 LOS ANGELES – This morning divers from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department located the body of a diver underwater at a depth of 80-feet, approximately 50-yards from the last known location of Stewart Hindley. Positive identification will be made by the Santa Barbara County Coroner’s Office.
Authorities conducted an extensive underwater and surface search [...]
Injured Sailor Medevaced from Oil Tanker
 BOSTON – An Air Station Cape Cod rescue helicopter hoisted an injured sailor suffering from a broken leg from an Italian-flagged oil tanker today 300 nautical miles southeast of Cape Cod.
The motor tanker Alessandra Bottiglieri, a 577-foot ship enroute to Portugal, contacted the Coast Guard after one of its crewman slipped and fell.
The Coast Guard [...]
Coast Guard Interdicts and Repatriates 70
 MIAMI – Cuban migrants interdicted in three events were repatriated Wednesday by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Drummond to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba.
The crew of the Cutter Sawfish interdicted a go-fast boat carrying 39 migrants and two suspected smugglers 20 miles south of Loggerhead Key, Fla., Sunday. The two suspected smugglers were [...]
Alaskan Coast Guard Rescues 2 After Plane Crash
 JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard HH 60 rescue helicopter from Air Station Kodiak rescued two people from a crashed-landed airplane in the vicinity of King Salmon at 10:21 p.m. Tuesday.
Coast Guard District 17 Command Center received an emergency radio beacon signal at 5:36 p.m. local time and diverted an Air Station Kodiak C-130 aircraft [...]
Coast Guard Sector Detroit Letter to the Editor
 Dear Editor:
Over the past four weeks Coast Guard Sector Detroit has responded to several incidents involving the loss of recreational boaters. Each of these cases involved different circumstances; however, either the failure to wear a personal flotation device and/or the inability to communicate distress to the Coast Guard seemed to be the common factors [...]