Patricia Kime, a staff writer for the Navy Times reports that
Two Coast Guardsmen are facing charges in the Jan. 21 death of a shipmate in Corpus Christi, Texas, service officials said Wednesday.
Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Anthony Montuoro, 24, and Seaman Matthew Huey, 22, both formerly of the 87-foot patrol boat Manatee, have been charged over [...]
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Coast Guard charges 2 in shipmate’s death
Coast Guard Searches for Overboard Woman
BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard is searching for a woman that fell overboard in the Sassafras River this evening.
The Coast Guard received a call at 7:57 p.m. from the husband of Sharon Andrews, 61, from Monkton, Md., reporting that she had fallen off the back of their 27-foot cuddy cabin boat into the Sassafras River.
The [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Navy Pilot
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard rescued a Navy Pilot approximately 83 miles Southeast of Cape Henry, Va., today.
A Navy FA-18 airplane based out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., lost communications with an E2-C Hawkeye aircraft. Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., launched an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew at [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Injured Man from Midway Atoll
HONOLULU — A Coast Guard C-130 rescue crew from Air Station Barbers Point medevaced a man suffering from burns Wednesday on Midway Atoll.
The Coast Guard received a call at 11 a.m. Wednesday about a 22-year-old man who was injured while assisting with a controlled burn.
A Coast Guard flight surgeon recommended the man, who received second [...]
Coast Guard, Hampton Roads Maritime Association Sponsors Safety Seminar
NORFOLK, Va. – Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads and the Virginia Maritime Association are sponsoring a safety seminar at the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command in Portsmouth, Va., on Thursday Oct. 18, for crewmembers that operate commercial tugs.
This is the tenth consecutive year of this partnership, an idea born from the Coast Guard’s Prevention Through [...]
Erratic Pilot Nearly Collides with Coast Guard Helicopter
Scary story from the Palo Alto Daily News
By Banks Albach / Daily News Staff Writer
A small aircraft on Monday nearly collided twice with the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that was pursuing it for flying only 1,000 feet off the ground in a highly populated area, authorities reported.
The pilot departed from San Francisco International Airport, looped [...]
Coast Guard and Chinese Fisheries Enforcement Cooperation Intercepts 3 Chinese Drift Net Fishing Vessel
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, Oct. 11, 2007 – The U.S. Coast Guard and People’s Republic of China Fisheries Law Enforcement Command (FLEC) are investigating three fishing vessels suspected of illegal high-seas drift net fishing 400 miles east of Hokkaido, Japan.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell with a FLEC officer onboard intercepted the fishing vessels Lu Rong [...]