TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. – The Coast Guard suspended the search for Joseph Reed, 40, of Tarpon Springs, Fla., at about 8:30 p.m. today after searching the Gulf of Mexico 35-miles west of Tarpon Springs since about 4:30 p.m. Monday with negative results.
Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Fla., received a call at 4:17 [...]
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Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Tarpon Springs Man
News Tip: Coast Guard Petty Officer Shot In Robbery Attempt
WCAU-TV 10 in Philadelphia reports
PHILADELPHIA — A Coast Guard petty officer is recovering after being shot Monday night in Philadelphia.
The officer and two other men were on their way home after finishing their shift at the Coast Guard Station in South Philadelphia.
“We need to stop the violence,” a man who only wanted to be identified [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Man From Freighter
MIAMI – A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HH-65 helicopter crew medically evacuated a 30-year-old male from a freighter 80 miles east of Fort Pierce Tuesday afternoon.
The Coast Guard received a call via high-frequency radio from the captain aboard the motor vessel Florence at approximately 2 p.m., alerting them that Bobby Atienza, a Filipino crewmember, [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Crosses Arctic Circle on Anniversay of Northwest Passge
By Petty Officer 1st Class Kurt Fredrickson
KODIAK, Alaska – In 1865 the first U.S. Lighthouse Service tender reached the shores of Russian Alaska and sparked the beginning of what has been more than 145 years of Coast Guard history in the Bering Sea. While the wooden ships of the Light House and Revenue Cutter [...]
Man Recovered from Water Southeast of Staten Island
NEW YORK-The Coast Guard Cutter Line crew rescued a man they found adrift about 400 yards southeast of South Beach near Staten Island, N.Y., at 8:30 a.m. today.
The cutter Line, a 65-foot harbor tug homeported in Bayonne was conducting a routine homeland security patrol when it came across Lewis Luna, 27, who had been treading [...]
Coast Guard Continues Search for Man Near Tarpon Springs
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. – The Coast Guard has been searching for a man 35-miles west of Tarpon Springs, Fla., since about 4:20 p.m. Monday after he was reported to have fallen overboard from a 35-foot commercial shrimping vessel.
Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a call from the captain of Charlee Girl at 4:17 p.m. Monday [...]