ALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four people early this morning after they were forced to abandon ship 12 miles southwest of Point Arena.
At approximately 1:30 a.m., Coast Guard Group Humboldt Bay received a call from four men on a sailing trip from San Francisco to Seattle, aboard the 42-foot sailboat Cherokee Rose. [...]
Posts on ‘August 5th, 2007’
Coast Guard Early Morning Rescue Saves Four
Coast Guard Searching After Man Falls Off Tanker
NEW YORK–A massive, multi-agency search continues for a tanker ship crewman who fell overboard 20 miles south of Ambrose Channel, the main shipping lanes to and from the Port of New York and New Jersey, at 10 a.m. today.
The man, whose name and nationality are presently being withheld by authorities, is a crewman aboard the [...]
Coast Guard rescues 4 in Gulf of Mexico
DESTIN, Fla. – The Coast Guard rescued four people in the Gulf of Mexico today after the vessel they were aboard began taking on water approximately eight miles south of the Destin East Pass.
Coast Guard Station Destin received a call at approximately 10 a.m., from the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Department of boaters in distress without lifejackets [...]
Coast Guard Transports Injured Teen
BOSTON – The Coast Guard transported an 18-year-old girl from a sailboat after she fell and hit her head about a mile and a half from Cape Elizabeth Light, Maine.
The girl’s father called Station South Portland from the 34-foot Delala at 12:04 p.m., requesting assistance. A rescue boat crew launched at 12:20 p.m., and arrived [...]
Video Coast Guard Assault and Rescue Swimmer
Video from the Seattle Seafair 2007 of demonstrations of an assault team insertion from an HH-60 followed by a rescue demonstration by an HH-65.
Video: The Coast Guard Song
Came across this old newsreel clip from U.S. News Review call The United States Coast Guard Song.