PHILADELPHIA – The Coast Guard responded to an oil spill in the Delaware River near Paulsboro, N.J. on Wednesday.
The Coast Guard received a call at about 10:45 a.m. reporting that oil was leaking from the Tigani, a 809-foot, Malta-flagged tanker operated by Cardiff Marine Inc. The tanker was moored at the Citgo Asphalt facility [...]
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Coast Guard responds to oil spill in Delaware River
Carrabelle Coast Guard Rescues Fleeing Cubans
Good article by Lois Swoboda of The Times – Apalachicola & Carrabelle about the recent trip to Key West by the Cutter Seahawk for migrant interdiction.
The Coast Guard cutter, Seahawk, which is regularly stationed in Carrabelle, is one of a pool of boats that occasionally travel to Key West to aid the cutters stationed there.
Sept. [...]
Coast Guard and TSA to Facilitate Port Security Exercise
Hyannis, Mass., – The Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard will facilitate a port security table-top exercise here Thursday to evaluate preparedness, prevention, and the ability to respond to a terrorist-related incident.
The Port Security Training Exercises Program is focused on building links between federal, state, and local agencies, and the maritime industry in [...]
Port Everglades Anchorage Review in Final Stages
MIAMI – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port at Sector Miami has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the existing Port Everglades commercial vessel anchorage, near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to protect the coral reef areas adjacent to the anchorage.
The proposed changes to the existing Port Everglades commercial vessel anchorage include:
Eliminating the [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Confidence Returns to Cape Canaveral
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence will return to Cape Canaveral Thursday at 8 a.m. following one of the most successful patrols in the ship’s 41 year history.
While deployed to the Florida Straits and Yucatan Channel for six weeks, Confidence and her crew participated in the successful interdiction of six “go-fast” smuggling [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Dallas arrives in Boston
BOSTON – The Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, a 378-foot high-endurance cutter based in Charleston, S.C., is in Boston today for a brief stop during its fisheries and maritime domain awareness patrol in the Northeast.In a switch from its normal mission of counter-drug operations in the Caribbean, the 160-person crew of the Dallas is patrolling the [...]