JUNEAU, Alaska – The owner of the NORDIC VIKING, in conjunction with response personnel from the Alaska Chadux Corporation, Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Valdez, and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation are continuing to work on final plans to tow the stricken vessel to Seward and complete spill clean-up efforts. The fishing vessel [...]
Posts on ‘July 26th, 2007’
Coast Guard Searches for Missing Florida Diver
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Coast Guard is searching for a missing diver 18-miles off the coast of Port Canaveral Thusday afternoon.
The 60-year-old man was diving with a friend for lobster when they became separated, and the man’s diving companion resurfaced without him. The man then contacted local authorities stating that his diving companion didn’t [...]
Coast Guard Amends Tampa Bay Security Zones
TAMPA, Fla. – The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port St. Petersburg, Capt. Joseph A. Servidio, amended existing Tampa Bay security zones Wednesday to refine, and in most cases, to reduce zone sizes to more effectively use limited Department of Homeland Security and law enforcement assets, while limiting restrictions on recreational and commercial vessel [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Missing Bridge Jumper
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – An HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and a 21-foot boat crew from Station Oregon Inlet, N.C., are searching for a 33-year-old Asian male who jumped from a catwalk beneath the Bonnor Bridge at Oregon Inlet today.
The Coast Guard was notified shortly after 1 p.m. today by the [...]
Forest Hill Maryland Native Honored By Coast Guard
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard Petty Officer Gregg J. Pescuma, Jr., a native of Forest Hill, Md., was selected as the Sector Hampton Roads Sub-unit Sailor of the Quarter at a ceremony July 25 in Chincoteague, Va.
Pescuma was awarded this recognition for superior performance of duty. Between April 1 and June 30, Pescuma helped junior [...]
The Coast Guard: Serious About Education
By Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Evanson
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – For an enlisted Coast Guardsman, the last day at recruit training in Cape May, N.J., is the start of a lifestyle few experience. The idea of driving boats headfirst into white studded waves or calling the Caribbean Sea your office is quite unique and desirable. Coast [...]
Coast Guard Searching for boy in St. Mary’s River
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Coast Guard along with federal, state, county, local, and tribal assets continues to search for a boy on St. Mary’s River.
The search began Wednesday after Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie received notification from 911 central dispatch of a 13-year-old male calling for help a 7 p.m. Central dispatch [...]