CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard has suspended its search today at 6:35 p.m. for a missing man in the vicinity of the Edisto River, S.C., and adjacent waterways.
Michael Jordan, 45, of Charleston left the Toogoodoo River Boat Ramp, S.C., yesterday morning in a 15-foot aluminum john boat named Two Buddies. His wife called the [...]
Posts on ‘August 2nd, 2007’
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing South Carolina Boater
Coast Guard Commissions Project Resident Office in Juneau
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coast Guard’s Rescue 21 Acquisition Project will officially commission a Project Resident Office (PRO) in Juneau, Alaska, on Monday, August 8, 2007. Rescue 21 is the Coast Guard’s critical command, control and communications acquisition project, offering cutting edge technology to mariners.
A 10:00 a.m. commissioning ceremony will be held on [...]
Coast Guard Intercepts, Repatriates 94 Cubans
MIAMI – Eighty-one Cuban migrants interdicted in five events were repatriated by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba, Thursday, and 13 Cuban migrants interdicted July 23 were repatriated Wednesday by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Kodiak Island.
Coast Guard Cutter Knight Island stopped a go-fast vessel with 24 [...]
Coast Guard Airlifts Injured Man Near Edisto Island, SC
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard airlifted an injured man to safety approximately 25-miles southeast of Edisto Island, S.C., today at approximately 1:30 p.m.
Fredrick Knack, 62, of Charlotte, N.C., was aboard the 25-foot chartered fishing vessel Cold Beer when he injured his leg and his shoulder and suffered a cut on his head, his shoulder [...]
Cruis Ship Hits Parking Structure
NEW YORK – A Carnival Lines cruise ship, CARNIVAL VICTORY, hit a parking structure at Pier 92 in Manhattan at approximately 7:15 a.m. today.
While repositioning the vessel, which was carrying over 4,300 people, the 895-foot vessel allided with the parking garage causing superficial damage to the ships’ bow spray shield.
The repairs to the pier structure [...]
Coast Guard responds to boat aground
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Coast Guard, along with state and local agencies, continue to respond today to a fishing boat, which ran aground Tuesday in Little Egg Inlet, N.J.
The Rough Seas, a 59-foot fishing boat, ran aground with one person aboard at about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday. New Jersey State Police transferred the operator [...]
Coast Guard Searches Boston Harbor for Missing Swimmer
BOSTON – The Coast Guard is searching Boston Harbor for a man who went missing about 6 p.m., after swimming with friends.
The group of four went swimming near Gallops Island from their sailboat and drifted away from it. One person made it back to the boat, one swam to the nearby rocks and another was [...]