SANDY HOOK, N.J. – Two crewmembers from a 65-foot charter fishing boat were arrested for reported narcotics possession, a weapons charge and fisheries violations, after a multi-agency team boarded the fishing vessel near Buoy 15 in the Sandy Hook Channel at 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Investigators from the Coast Guard Field Intelligence Support Team (FIST) and New [...]
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Multi-Agency Effort Results in Arrests for Narcotics, Weapons and Fishery Violations
Cleanup of derelict vessel underway
SEATTLE – An opportunity for media, agency executives and other interested parties to visit the site of the Coast Guard-monitored cleanup and removal of the 141-foot derelict fishing vessel Heron located at 100 E Marine View Dr. in Everett, Wash., will take place Wednesday from 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
Global Diving and Salvage has been hired to [...]
Coast Guard to Participate in Discover Marina del Rey
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – The U.S. Coast Guard will be a major participant this year at Discover Marina del Rey at Burton Chace Park Sunday.This year the Coast Guard will be conducting search and rescue demonstrations involving the Cutter Halibut, a 41-Foot utility boat from Station Los Angeles/Long Beach and a Coast Guard HH-65C [...]
Coast Guard ends unsafe fishing trip
BOSTON – The Coast Guard terminated the voyage of a fishing vessel today at 2:20 p.m., three miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., after discovering the crew did not have enough safety gear aboard.
The Coast Guard Cutter Hammerhead, an 87-foot patrol boat from Woods Hole, Mass., boarded the fishing vessel Corvo II at 2 p.m., [...]
Coast Guard Intercepts Two Chinese Fishing Vessels
JUNEAU, Alaska — International fisheries law enforcement operations continue with the interception of two Chinese fishing boats suspected of high-seas driftnet fishing in the North Pacific Ocean.
September 24, a Coast Guard HH-65 helicopter, deployed from Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell, reportedly observed Zhe Dai Yuan Yu 1961 concealing net spreaders. Once boarded by a Joint [...]
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Boater
BAYPORT, Fla. – The Coast Guard suspended the search for Lindsay Forde, 56, of Hollywood, Fla., at about 10:30 a.m. today.
Coast Guard rescue crews began searching an area in the Gulf of Mexico about 75-miles west of Bayport, Fla., Saturday at 7:25 p.m., after receiving a call from Michael Swindle, 56, of Tampa, Fla., the [...]
Retirement Marks End of an Era
by Petty Officer 3rd Class Mario Romero
HOUSTON -Thirty years can be a lifetime, especially in the military. At 20 years, most military members consider it a career. Robert Boucher’s retirement in September 2007 marked a mile-stone for his family. Though he had served 22 years, together they had served a lifetime in the military.
Robert’s [...]