SEATTLE – Coast Guard crews assisted in the medical evacuation of a 60-year old man who suffered a heart attack while aboard his vessel today near Sooke Harbour, approximately 20 miles west of Victoria, Canada.
The Coast Guard received a call around 9 a.m. from Victoria Rescue Coordination Centre requesting agency assistance for a man [...]
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Coast Guard Assists Canadian Officials with Medevac
Coast Guard Locates Missing Kayaker, Another Still Missing
HONOLULU – A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew located one of the kayakers in his kayak 25 miles west of Kaumalapau Harbor at around 11 a.m. The Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew flew the kayaker to Kahului Airport where Maui emergency medical technicians waited. The kayaker was reported in good condition with [...]
Coast Guard Assists Grounded Cruise Ship
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard Sector Anchorage responded to a call from the cruise ship Spirit of Columbia after it ran aground on the east side of Evans Island in Latouche Passage, near Whittier, at approximately 9:53 a.m. Sunday.
There were 51 passengers and 21 crew members on board with no reported injuries. No pollution was [...]
Coast Guard Searches for Two Missing Kayakers
HONOLULU — Rescue personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Maui County Fire Department today continue to search for two male kayakers who were reported missing late Sunday night.
Coast Guard C-130 search plane and HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crews from Air Station Barbers Point are searching an area of nearly 700 square miles offshore [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Person in Water
BOSTON – The Coast Guard is searching for a person who may have fallen overboard from a boat at about 1 p.m., 15 miles east/southeast of the mouth of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts.
The Coast Guard received a report of a white 22-foot recreational boat with a green canopy, manufactured by Mako, traveling westbound at [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Stranded Sailors
SAVANNAH, Ga. – A Coast Guard aircrew rescued three men from a 38-foot fishing vessel that had run aground three-miles east of St. Catharine’s Sound, Ga., Sunday at 11:50 p.m.Myles Randall, 53; Guy Jennings, 35; and the vessel’s captain Michael Schnake, 61; were ferrying the Kristine from Beaufort, S.C., to Tampa, Fla., when they ran [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Man Suffering Allergic Reaction
New York – A 50 year-old man suffering an allergic reaction to nuts was medevaced from a 42-foot pleasure craft about 100 miles southeast of Montauk, N.Y., shortly after midnight this morning.
First Coast Guard District Command Center rescue controllers received an alert from an unlocated Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) at 9:45 p.m. [...]