SEATTLE – The Coast Guard medevaced a 67-year old male off of a sailboat near Yaquina Head, Ore., today.
Coast Guard Group North Bend received a call that a man aboard a 34-foot sailboat was in medical distress and needed to be airlifted to a nearby hospital.
A Coast Guard 47-foot motor lifeboat crew from Station Depoe [...]
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Coast Guard medevacs man from sailboat
Coast Guard Investigating Vessel Collision on Ohio River
MEADE COUNTY, KY- At just after 7 PM, Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley received a report from the towing vessel CHARLES E. MARTIN that its tow had collided with a 17-foot recreational boat. The incident occurred near Ohio River mile 638.
Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley, Meade County EMS, and Kentucky Department of Fish & [...]
Coast Guard’s tasks grow with Arctic traffic – USATODAY.com
Interesting article on USATODAY.com By Barbara Slavin
WASHINGTON — When the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard thinks of future trouble spots, his focus is increasingly to the north — the vast waters around a melting polar ice cap.
Once almost totally inaccessible to shipping and oil drilling, the region poses new opportunities for economic activity, as [...]
Coast Guard Restricts Towing Vessel from Operations
MIAMI – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Miami, Capt. Karl L. Schultz, issued a Captain of the Port Order to the towing vessel Megan Garrett Friday, restricting the vessel from operation until conditions of the order are met.
Coast Guard Sector Miami received a report of a marine casualty in the vicinity of the [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Man From Ambrose Channel
NEW YORK – A man reporting symptoms of a heart attack was medevaced from an Army research vessel in the Ambrose Channel by a Coast Guard rescue crew at approximately 12:43 p.m. today.
William Carm, 45, was working aboard the 273-foot Army research vessel Frank S. Abyss, when he reported symptoms of a heart attack. [...]
Coast Guard Rescues 3 Fishermen
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard Cutter Yellowfin rescued three men on disabled a 28-foot fishing boat 41 miles southeast of Charleston Monday at approximately 1 p.m.
Ronald Fortuna, 39, of Isle of Palms, S.C., Edward Fortuna, 38 of Mount Pleasant, S.C., and Greg Rubin, 32, of West Ashley, S.C., were reported overdue Sunday at approximately [...]
Coast Guard and VISAR Rescue Boater
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard and Virgin Islands Search and Rescue VISAR crews rescued a boater Sunday who was anchored and disabled aboard his 28-foot pleasure craft Four Brat, approximately 10 nautical miles north of Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands.
The boater established marine radio communications with VISAR on VHF-FM Channel 16 at [...]