 HONOLULU – Search crews aboard a Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, along with crews from the Honolulu Police and Fire Department, are currently searching the south eastern coast of Oahu for a 38 year old snorkeler who was reported overdue from an excursion Saturday night.
The missing local man was reported to [...]
Posts on ‘August 12th, 2007’
Coast Guard Continues Search for Missing Snorkeler
Coast Guard Responds to Report of Suspicious Vessel
 Long Beach, Calif. – The Coast Guard received a report of a suspicious vessel operating within the 100-yard security zone around the cruise ship Carnival Pride docked at the Long Beach Cruise Terminal this morning at 11:30 a.m. The Coast Guard along with Long Beach Police, Long Beach Lifeguards, and Long Beach [...]
Missing Brooklyn Man Found Hiding Under Long Beach Boardwalk
 NEW YORK–The Coast Guard suspended its search for missing Brooklynite Neal Mello at 5:30 a.m. today after the man, who was reported missing after a nighttime swim Saturday, was found under the Long Beach boardwalk. He was apparently in good physical condition but hesitant to show himself to rescuers as he chose to swim without [...]
Personal Watercraft Collides with Boat
 BOSTON – Two Coast Guard helicopters and a rescue boat responded after a personal watercraft and a 12-foot recreational boat collided, resulting in six people entering the water in Vineyard Haven Harbor, Mass., at 2:20 p.m., today.
After receiving notification from local police, Coast Guard Station Menemsha relayed the accident to Sector Southeastern New England, which [...]
Coast Guard medevacs man near Port Aransas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Coast Guard medevaced a man after his boat ran aground on the jetties off Port Aransas, Texas, last night.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Station Port Aransas received a mayday call at 9:02 p.m. from a person onboard the recreational boat, stating that a man had been thrown from the boat [...]
Eight People Injured When 2 Pleasure Boats Collide
NEW YORK–Eight people, including three children, sustained minor to severe injuries after a head-on collision between 23-foot and 25-foot pleasure boats near the Bay Shore Marina just east of the Robert Moses Causeway on Fire Island, N.Y. about 10 p.m. Saturday. Five of the eight boaters were ejected from their vessels following the collision.
One child [...]
Coast Guard Rescues 6 Boaters on St. Johns River
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Coast Guard and good Samaritans rescued six boaters, which included three children, after their 25-foot vessel ran aground on the south jetties at the mouth of the St. Johns River, Fla., at about 4:45 p.m.
Terry Loman, 45, of Atlantic Beach, Fla., was injured after the vessel we was piloting drifted into the [...]