Here’s the video from the medevac from a South Korean Navy vessel on Tuesday night.
Posts on ‘October 31st, 2007’
Coast Guard suspends search for missing man in Sabine River
HOUSTON – After a 2-day effort, the Coast Guard has suspended its active search today at 5:49 p.m. for the missing 18-year-old in Sabine River near Orange, Texas.
The Coast Guard is continuing to broadcast a radio message requesting all mariners to report any information that may lead to locating the missing man.
The Coast Guard received [...]
Coast Guardsman Wins 2007 Military Long Drive Championship
By Tim Hipps, Army News Service
MESQUITE, Nev. – U.S. Coast Guard Airman Ryan Hixson won the 2007 Military Long Drive Championship Oct. 25 with a drive of 367 yards.
With his victory, Bryan Hixson earned $10,000 and an exemption into the 2008 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship in Mesquite.
“We’re very proud to provide this competition for [...]
Still the Smokies of the Sea
The Daily Astorian reports
The long arm of the law reached out six miles offshore Tuesday morning with the help of a motor lifeboat crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment. Two people suspected of stealing a life raft from a fishing vessel moored at Astoria’s West Mooring Basin had left Astoria around 10:30 a.m. [...]
Three Boaters Rescued Off Keaton Beach
KEATON BEACH, Fla. – The Coast Guard ended its search Wednesday, at about 2 p.m., for three overdue boaters aboard a 20-foot pleasure craft who have been missing since Sunday evening, after a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) aircraft located the boaters about 30-nautical-miles southwest of Keaton Beach.
Vannie Wetherington, 69, of Perry, Fla., [...]
Coast Guard airlifts ill crewmember from South Korean Naval vessel
BOSTON – A Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted a crewmember experiencing abdominal pain from a South Korean Naval vessel about 200 miles east of Cape Cod Tuesday night.
The master of the South Korean vessel, Hwacheon, called Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., around 3 p.m., requesting assistance for the 50-year-old man who had been [...]
Coast Guard Continues Search for Missing Boaters
KEATON BEACH, Fla. – The Coast Guard is continuing the search for three overdue boaters aboard a 20-foot pleasure craft about 17-nautical-miles north of the Steinhatchee River, in Taylor County, Fla., who have been missing since Sunday evening.
Vannie Wetherington, 69, of Perry, Fla., her son Joe Wetherington, 43, of Atlanta, Ga., and his girlfriend, Kelly [...]