NAGS HEAD, N.C. – A Coast Guard rescue crew from Station Oregon Inlet medivaced an ailing crewmember onboard the Army Corps of Engineers Dredge Merritt, this morning.
Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet was contacted by captain of the Dredge Merritt who was requesting assistance for a 38-year-old crewmember who was experiencing severe back pain [...]
Posts on ‘September 26th, 2007’
Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet Kept Busy with Multiple Cases
Former Coast Guard Commandant to be Buried Friday
WASHINGTON – Adm. Owen W. Siler, who served as commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1974 to 1978, will be buried with full military honors on Friday at Arlington National Cemetery. He died from heart failure on July 17 in Atlanta.
A World War II veteran, Adm. Siler served in combat duty aboard two [...]
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Mariner Near Cordova
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard has suspended the search for the master of a fishing vessel reported overdue near Cordova Monday night.
The search concluded at 7:52 p.m., Tuesday. Coast Guard aircraft searched for more than 15 hours thoroughly saturating a search area around Egg Island and west to Hinchinbrook Island.
The search has been [...]
Coast Guard Searching Ohio River for Missing Man
LOUISVILLE – The Coast Guard is continuing the search for a man who fell overboard in the Ohio River September 25, 2007 at approximately 3:00 p.m.
Missing is Joshua Harris, 22, a crewmember aboard the Motor Vessel Larry Tilley.
The Coast Guard and local response personnel, to include divers, searched throughout the night for Harris.
The Coast Guard [...]
Coast Guard Interdicts 61 Cubans, 54 Dominicans
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Kodiak Island repatriated 61 Cuban migrants, who were interdicted at sea in five separate events, to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Wednesday and the Cutter Sapelo repatriated 54 Dominican Republic Migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic, Tuesday.
The Coast Guard was assisted in two of the five Cuban [...]
Coast Guard Resumes Search for Missing Diver
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Coast Guard has resumed its search off the coast of Port Canaveral, Fla., after receiving new information, for a diver that went missing Saturday evening off the coast of Jupiter Inlet, Fla.
Coast Guard search and rescue crews resumed its search Tuesday morning off the coast of Port Canaveral for Nicole Cuomo, [...]
Hoax Distress Calls Cost Lives, Resources
BALTIMORE – Each day, the Coast Guard responds to nearly 109 boaters in distress, saving 10 lives and assisting 192 people. But not every distress call is real.
Out of the 422 rescue cases handled by Coast Guard Sector Baltimore since October 1, 2006, 15 percent of the cases were probable hoaxes.
Under federal law, knowingly and [...]