WASHINGTON – In a consolidated contractual action, the Coast Guard today awarded Integrated Coast Guard Systems $337 million for construction of the third national security cutter, along with $255 million for continuation of construction for the first two national security cutters. The combined award is the result of a successful negotiation between the [...]
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Former Polar Sea Crewmember Returns as Commanding Officer
SEATTLE – Capt. Carl J. Uchytil will relieve Capt. Bruce L. Toney as commanding officer of the Polar Sea during a change of command ceremony here Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
This will be Uchytil’s second tour aboard the Polar Sea. Uchytil’s first assignment in the Coast Guard was to the Polar Sea in 1984 [...]
Coast Guard Detains Cargo Vessel at Port of San Juan
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard Sector San Juan, issued a detention order to the 333-foot Panamanian cargo vessel Sunshine Spirit Tuesday, restricting the vessel from operating until conditions of the order are met.
A Coast Guard Port State Control Team from Sector San Juan conducted a random examination of the Sunshine Spirit Tuesday and [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Fisherman Off New Jersey Coast
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Romano, a rescue swimmer with Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, performed his first rescue today 48 miles off the coast of Cape May, N.J.
The Coast Guard received a call at 8:46 a.m. from a crewman aboard the fishing boat F. Nelson requesting [...]
Coast Guard Ends Search for Missing 19 Year Old
FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Coast Guard ended its search Wednesday for 19-year-old Christian Dutcher, of Lakeland, Fla., who was reported missing at about noon yesterday in the vicinity of Gasparilla Pass, in Charlotte Harbor, Fla.
At about 9 a.m. Wednesday the Coast Guard received a call from a Good Samaritan reporting a person in the [...]
Coast Guard Searches for Missing Swimmers
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – The Coast Guard spent the early morning hours today assisting the Huntington Beach Police Department in the search for two missing swimmers.
Just after 2:00 this morning the Coast Guard received a call from the Huntington Beach Police department requesting help in the search. The Coast Guard Cutter Halibut and [...]
Coast Guard Locates 6 Missing Boaters Near Montauk, NY
NEW YORK–A Coast Guard Station Montauk rescue crew located six missing boaters at 6 a.m. today two miles northeast of Gardiners Island, N.Y., after the boaters failed to return a rented 18-foot boat to Uihleins Marina Tuesday night.
The six boaters, Alex Levine, Aharon Lev Goodman, Levi Kirshenbaum, M. Chazen, Mendy Ben-Shachar, and Mendy Stalvitsk, who [...]