SEATTLE – Coast Guard units are searching the Oregon coast near Neskowin, Ore., for signs of a teenaged boy who was swept out to sea.
An HH-65 helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Facility North Bend, the crew of a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Depoe Bay and local fire department crews are searching the [...]
Posts on ‘July 13th, 2007’
Coast Guard Seeks Teen Off Oregon Coast
Tanker Aground in Ambrose Channel Finally Freed
 NEW YORK-Three tugs safely pulled the grounded 800-foot tanker ship White Sea from the Ambrose shipping channel’s sandy bottom at 6:20 p.m. today during high tide after 121,000 barrels of the 556,000 barrels of low sulfur fuel oil cargo was lightered to Bouchard Barge B-230 earlier today. There were no reports of fuel product [...]
3 More Survivors Found Near Sunken Chinese Cargo Ship
HONOLULU — Coast Guard and Good Samaritan rescuers today continue to search waters approximately 375 miles northwest of Guam for six people still missing from the sunken container ship Hai Tong #7, which apparently went down in heavy weather July 10 during the passage of Typhoon Man-Yi.
Overnight, three more survivors were recovered from the water. [...]
Coast Guard Interdicts, Repatriates 24 Cuban Migrants
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Drummond repatriated 24 Cuban migrants Friday to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba.
The migrants were rescued from a rustic vessel Tuesday that was interdicted by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Yellowfin about four miles south of Loggerhead Key, Fla.
Within the last 24 hours, 20 more Cuban migrants [...]
Lightering Continues on Tanker Aground in Ambrose Channel
 NEW YORK-Cargo tanks remain intact aboard the 800-foot grounded tank ship White Sea and crews continue lightering 120,000 barrels of low sulfur fuel oil to Bouchard Barge B-230, at a rate of 10,000 barrels an hour, today. Lightering operations, which started at 2:00 a.m., are expected to take about 12 hours. Officials anticipate [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Confidence Returns to Cape Canaveral
 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence returned to Cape Canaveral this morning following a 46-day patrol of the Florida Straits and Gulf of Mexico in support of Coast Guard District Seven’s migrant interdiction.
Confidence interdicted three home-made vessels carrying a total of 66 Cuban migrants and served as the tactical commander of several [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane to Welcome New Skipper
 PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane will welcome a new commanding officer in a change of command ceremony here Tuesday at 10 a.m.
The crew will welcome Cmdr. John W. McKinley and bid farewell to Capt. Christopher P. Scraba.
McKinley comes to the Harriet Lane from an assignment as executive officer [...]