HONOLULU — Working closely with State of Hawaii officials, representatives of the Superferry and Kauai County authorities, the U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Honolulu, voiced safety concerns about the inter-island passenger ferry’s planned operations from Honolulu to Kauai today.
Hawaii state officials temporarily suspended Superferry’s operations in to and out of Nawiliwilii Harbor on [...]
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Coast Guard Voices Safety Concerns About Super Ferry
Red Cross Recognizes Efforts of Coast Guard Island Personnel
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The American Red Cross recognized the Coast Guard today for surpassing 2,000 units collected on Coast Guard Island during blood drives held here over the last 10 years.
Jay Winkenbach, CEO for the Northern California Blood Services Region of the Red Cross presented plaques to representatives of each command on the island, including [...]
Coast Guard Suspends Lake Ontario Search
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Buffalo suspended the search for a possible person in the water on Lake Ontario.
A report of an abandoned car was filed and investigated.
The search was conducted with a Canadian C-130 from RCC Trenton, US Coast Guard helicopters from Air Station Traverse City, Air Station Detroit, small boats from [...]
Coast Guard Helps Release Sea Lions
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The U.S Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team Los Angeles/Long Beach, working with personnel from the Fort Macarthur Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, released two rehabilitated sea lions back into the wild today off Catalina Island.
The sea lions had been at the rehabilitation center after they were both [...]
Coast Guard, Energy Commision host public meeting on LNG proposal
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will co-host a public meeting for comments on the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project September 18 at 7p.m., at the Warrenton High School Gymnasium located at 1700 SE Main St. Warrenton, Ore.
Coast Guard Sector Portland will assess safety and security issues associated [...]
Coast Guard Intercepts 93 Cubans
MIAMI РThe crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak repatriated 93 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Caba̱as, Cuba, Tuesday.
The migrants were interdicted Friday and Saturday during seven separate cases.
Saturday, an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Miami located a rustic vessel with three people aboard, 48 miles south of Marquesas, Fla. The migrants were [...]
Setting The Record Straight
From Broadly Boats,
The news media and the Internet can be a fickle audience, slow to recognize success and quick to seize on anything that looks like success. British solo rower Roz Savage managed a quarter page in the British Daily Telegraph on the strength of a photograph of her aground on a sand bank, taking [...]