McKinleyville, Calif. – A Coast Guard HH-65C helicopter hoisted two people from the water approximately forty miles west-southwest of Shelter Cove, CA.
Coast Guard Group Humboldt Bay was notified of a 406MHz Emergency Positioning Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) alert from the 38 foot sailing vessel Passing Wind II at approximately 10:15 a.m.. A HH-65C helicopter [...]
Posts on ‘October 25th, 2007’
Air Station Humboldt Bay Rescues 2 People from the Water
Operation Safe Crab 2007
Eureka, Fort Bragg and Crescent City California – November 7th, 8th and 9th – U.S. Coast Guard personnel will be conducting safety spot-checks and encouraging voluntary dockside exams in various Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino County ports prior to the local crab opening. The most dangerous job in America continues to be [...]
Coast Guard Assists In Fighting SOCAL Fires.
LOS ANGELES, — The Coast Guard continues to provide assistance to area firefighters and rescue personnel in their ongoing efforts to battle the blazes in Southern California. So far the Coast Guard has:
Personnel have been assigned to work in the Joint Field Office in Pasadena, the San Diego County Emergency Operations Center and at the [...]
Coast Guard to Discontinue Aids to Navigation in Quinby Inlet, VA
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard will discontinue the aids to navigation that mark Quinby Inlet, which is located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia due to shoaling that has encroached into the inlet and reduced water depths to less than three feet.
Following Hurricane Isabel in 2002, the dynamics of Quinby Inlet changed greatly. [...]
The Lady of the Light
by PA2 Luke Pinneo
Where there is light, there is hope.
For centuries, seafarers have endured Atlantic storms and found safe haven in Boston Harbor. The light of hope they have known since 1776 still shines today. It is Boston Light, that beacon of promise on Little Brewster Island.
“For sailors, after being out at sea, they come [...]
Coast Guard Conducting First North Pole Flight
Mission part of increase in Arctic operations
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard announced a C-130 departed Barrow, Alaska today to fly 1,183 miles to the North Pole as part of an increase in Arctic orientation flights. The crew, which will includes a representative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Barrow community, will [...]
Coast Guard Begins Operation Fall Retrieve
CLEVELAND – The Ninth Coast Guard District has begun its annual retrieval of The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway System seasonal aids to navigation, which includes lighted and unlighted buoys and beacons.
Operation Fall Retrieve, the largest domestic buoy recovery operation in the U.S. Coast Guard, commenced Oct. 14, 2007, with a goal of retrieving [...]