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Posts on ‘July 21st, 2007’

Coast Guard Rescues 2 Women Struck by Personal Watercraft

 MIAMI – A Coast Guard Station Miami Beach boat crew rescued two women with head injuries from the waters of Biscayne Bay near Hobie Beach Saturday.
Initial reports indicate the two women were swimming with friends who were aboard personal watercraft. One of the personal watercraft operators reportedly tried to pick the women up from [...]

Coast Guard responds to unresponsive diver near Bellingham, WA

 SEATTLE – The Coast Guard responded to a report of an unresponsive 25-year-old female diver off Lummi Rocks near Bellingham, Wash., today.
Coast Guard Station Bellingham launched a 33-foot response boat crew after a crewman from the charter vessel Deep Sea contacted the station on VHF channel 16 to request assistance at 10:30 a.m. Station [...]

Multi-Agency Search for Missing Fisherman in Fairhaven

 NEW YORK–A fisherman who apparently fell from the Middletown Avenue Bridge into the Quinnipiac River in Fairhaven, Conn. at 6:30 p.m. today prompted a massive multi-agency search.
Three of the man’s friends reported that he was fishing and dropped his pole into the water. He apparently went in after it and was swept away by the [...]

Vessel Collision Near West Gilgo Beach, NY

 NEW YORK — Two vessels collided resulting in one man reporting back injuries in the Amityville Cut near the West Gilgo Beach, N.Y. in the Great South Bay at about 7:30 a.m. today.
Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound received a call from the Suffolk County 911 dispatcher that two vessels had collided and one person [...]