PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Washington, D.C., man was rescued by the Coast Guard after his vessel sank 82 miles east of Elizabeth City, N.C., this evening.
David Bentley, a 53-year-old, was hoisted to safety from a life raft by a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City helicopter rescue crew, after his 42-foot boat rapidly took on [...]
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Washington, DC Man Saved by North Carolina Coast Guard
Missing Boater Located, Now in Police Custody
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The subject of a multi-agency search on the Edisto River, S.C., and its adjacent waterways is in the custody of Customs and Border Protection after being apprehended at the Canadian border in New York State.
Michael Timothy Jordan, 45, of Charleston was apprehended by CBP officers after he applied for admission into the [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 70 Dominicans
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tempest repatriated 70 Dominicans and one Haitian today to La Romana, Dominican Republic, following an at-sea interdiction Wednesday.
Twenty-eight migrants were identified through the use of biometrics (digital fingerprints and photographs) as having a history of illegal immigration or criminal activity in the United [...]
Coast Guard patrols safety zone near collapsed bridge
MINNEAPOLIS – A 25-foot smallboat crew from the Marine Safety Detachment St. Paul, Minn., patrols the safety zone around the collapsed Interstate 35 West bridge Friday.
A local Coast Guardsman enforces the safety zone on the Mississippi River Friday.
U.S. Coast Guard photographs by Chief Petty Officer Robert Lanier
Homemade Submarine Enters Security Zone around Quenn Mary II
New York – A Brooklyn man in an 8-foot homemade submersible drifted into a security zone around the cruise ship Queen Mary ll, moored in Brooklyn, N.Y. at approximately 11 a.m. today.
Philip Riley was in a replica of the “Turtle,” a Revolutionary War era submarine, when he came within 200 feet of the 1,132-foot cruise [...]
Enderts Beach Rescue
Last Monday the Del Norte County Sheriff’s SAR Team responded to help a stranded climber off the Enderts Beach Lookout, just outside Crescent City, CA. An Air Station Humboldt Bay helicopter was called in to help.
The Coast Guard video showed the rescue from the helicopter but here is a view of the rescue from shoreline.
Coast Guard Locates Vessel that Struck Well Head
Venice, LA- After days of following leads the U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans has sucessfully identified the vessel involved in a well head collision that caused an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week.
The spill which was discovered last Sunday, occurred when a towing vessel pushing a crane barge [...]