BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard medevaced a man from his sail boat in the Chesapeake Bay this evening after reporting that he was suffering from chest pains.
At 7: 16 p.m. Michael Airey, 60, was aboard his 23-foot sailing vessel with his wife near Calvert Cliffs Power Plant when he began experiencing pain in his chest. [...]
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Coast Guard Medevacs Man Suffering From Chest Pains
Coast Guard Interdicts 70 Cubans
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak repatriated 70 undocumented Cuban migrants from four separate interdiction’s to Bahia de Cubanas, Cuba, Saturday.
Search and rescue coordinators at Coast Guard Sector Miami received a distress call on VHF Channel 16 Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. from a mariner stating he was out fishing and [...]
Coast Guard calls off search for New Jersey man
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Coast Guard called of its search today for a missing Haddon Heights, N.J., man after the man was found deceased on Brigantine Beach here.
Deceased is Clayton Miller, 90, of Haddon Heights, N.J.
A Good Samaritan contacted the Coast Guard at about 4:40 p.m. Friday after they spotted Miller’s 22-foot sailboat The [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Carolina Fisherman
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard and the Beaufort Marine Rescue Squadron from Port Royal, S.C., rescued an overdue fisherman on the Broad River between Paris Island, S.C., and Hilton Head, S.C., at about 1:45 a.m.
Ernest Wright, 58, from Beaufort, S.C., left from Archers Creek on Paris Island at about 1 p.m. Friday for a [...]
China, U.S. and Japan Cooperate Against High-Seas Drift Nets
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN- The United States Coast Guard, the People’s Republic of China Fisheries Law Enforcement Command (FLEC), and Japanese Coast Guard are investigating a fishing vessel suspected of illegal high-seas drift net fishing five hundred miles east of Hokkaido, Japan.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell with a Chinese fisheries enforcement officer on board intercepted [...]
Authorities arrest Catalina Ferry jumpers
San Pedro, Calif. – Coast Guard law enforcement officers detained three Ventura County residents after they jumped off of the Catalina Ferry Starship Express into Los Angeles Harbor near the San Pedro Coast Guard base. The three swam to shore where they were met by Coast Guard base security.
The Starship Express reported the incident [...]
Coast Guard Sets Port Condition X-Ray for Wilmington and Morehead City
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard in North Carolina has set port condition X-Ray for the ports of Wilmington and Morehead City and is continuing to prepare for the arrival of a tropical disturbance and the heavy rains it is expected to bring through the weekend.
This readiness condition is set when threatening winds of [...]