Scoop Reports:
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) have recently started working together as part of a Pacific regional fisheries protection operation.
Two RNZN officers have joined the crew of the USCG vessel Walnut, a 225ft Buoy Tender/Cutter, in what will become an annual personnel exchange aimed to enhance cooperation [...]
Posts on ‘August 27th, 2007’
New Zealand Navy Officers Onboard US Coast Guard Cutter
Kayaker Rescued Near Lincoln City, Oregon
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard rescued a kayaker from the waters near Lincoln City, Ore. today.
Coast Guard Station Depoe Bay recieved a report at 2:40 p.m. from the Lincoln City Dispatch that a kayaker was stranded in the waters of Siletz Bay near Lincoln City. The man was one of two brothers who lost [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Cruise Ship Passenger
MIAMI – The Coast Guard medically evacuated an 82-year-old woman from a cruise ship 132 miles east of Great Inagua, Bahamas, to Miami Monday evening.
The Coast Guard received a call at about 4:19 p.m. from the doctor aboard the Freedom of the Seas reporting a passenger had suffered a broken leg.
Rudy Harris, a U.S. citizen, [...]
Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescue 2 teens, 35 miles off New Jersey coast
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued two teenage boys 35 miles east of Cape May, N.J., today after the 16-foot boat the teens were on broke down.
Rescued were Gus Fellenbaum, 15, and Devon Johnson, 14, both of Avalon, N.J.
The two teenagers, who lost radio communications when their boat broke [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Missing Pilot
NEW YORK–The U.S. Coast Guard is assisting the New York State Emergency Management Office (SEMO) in searching for a 76 year-old man in a single-engine Piper aircraft after he was reported missing in heavy fog on Long Island, N.Y., about 6 p.m. Saturday.Ken Eaton Sr. was en route Gabreskiin Westhampton, N.Y. from Spadaro airport in [...]