SEATTLE – The Coast Guard is searching for a 35-year old man who fell overboard near the Columbia River entrance today.
Coast Guard Group Astoria received a call from the 36-foot fishing vessel Ida W II that one of their crew members had fallen overboard and was not wearing a life vest.
Coast Guard Air Station Astoria [...]
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Coast Guard searches for man overboard
Coast Guard Cutter Tornado to return home after sucessful 31-day voyage
NEW ORLEANS – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tornado is scheduled to return to their homeport of Pascagoula, Miss., Sunday following a 31-day deployment in the Florida Straits.
While patrolling the Straits, off the coast of the Florida Keys, the crew conducted Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations, helping stop the flow of illegal immigration to [...]
Coast Guard Monitors Grounded Party Boat
NIANTIC, CT.–The Coast Guard is monitoring a party fishing boat that ran aground one mile from Niantic CT., at around 2 p.m. today.
The 65-foot vessel Black Hawk II, owned by Black Hawk II LLC, was carrying 35 passengers from the Niantic Bay Marina to fish when the vessel ran around on rocks. The Coast [...]
Coast Guard rescues four from sinking houseboat
BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard rescued four people from a sinking houseboat in the Magothy River in Annapolis, Md. today.
Rescued were Mark Hirsh, 46 of Spring Grove, Pa., William Kuchta Sr., 60 of Baltimore, William Kuchta Jr., 32 of Joppa, Md. and Tonya Rose, 31 of Joppa, Md.
The Coast Guard received a call at 9:30 [...]