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Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Scuba Diver

BOSTON – The Coast Guard has suspended its search at 8:10 p.m. for a 29-year old scuba diver missing near Scituate, Mass., since Saturday afternoon.
The Scituate Harbormaster reported to the Coast Guard that diver Timothy Ericcson was overdue about 1/4 mile south of New Inlet, Mass., around 3 p.m. Saturday.
The diver had three safety spotters [...]

Update on Mystery Oil Spill Off Puerto Rico

GUANICA, Puerto Rico – The Unified Command announced Sunday the continued efforts in the ongoing recovery of oil products, and protecting the sensitive areas in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico from Guayanilla Bay to La Parguera.
The crew of an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter with a marine pollution investigator aboard conducted an overflight to verify a [...]

Coast Guard Rescues 31 Dominican Migrants

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless rescued 31 Dominican migrants from a 35-foot, fiberglass yola at about 4:17 p.m. Saturday, ending a four-day search.
The rescued migrants were reported to be in good health overall with some exhaustion and dehydration.
After executing more than 20 searches in a search area [...]

Coast Guard Medevacs Injured Mariner

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., air crew responded to a mariner suffering from chest pain 37 miles off the coast of North Carolina today.
An HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City hoisted a 58 year-old man from the 100-foot charter vessel Continental Shelf approximately 37 [...]

Ailing cruise ship crewmember prompts Coast Guard medevac

BOSTON – The Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember from cruise ship Carnival Victory today around 1 p.m. about 60 miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass.
Coast Guard Sector Boston received a call via VHF FM radio channel 16 from the Carnival Victory, reporting a crewmember experiencing acute abdominal distress.
A Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Cape [...]

Update on Puerto Rican Oil Spill

GUANICA, Puerto Rico – Unified Command announced Sunday the continued efforts in the ongoing recovery of oil products, and protecting the sensitive areas in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico from Guayanilla Bay to La Parguera.
The crew of an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter with a marine pollution investigator aboard conducted an overflight to verify a [...]

Coast Guard assists boater taking on water off Atlantic City coast

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Coast Guard assisted a boater today after the 26-foot boat he was on started taking on water about 14 miles southeast of Atlantic City.
The Coast Guard received the distress call from the operator of the Surfbroad at 7:35 a.m. who reported having more than a foot of water in the [...]