PORT ARTHUR – Coast Guard MSU Port Arthur is responding to a ruptured crude oil pipeline approximately 4 miles offshore of McFaddin Beach, Texas. So far, approximately 2,000 gallons of oil have been released into the Gulf of Mexico today.
At 9:25 A.M. today, the National Response Center notified Coast Guard MSU Port Arthur that [...]
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Coast Guard responds to ruptured offshore pipeline
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Sailors
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard has suspended the search today for two sailors who went missing during a storm Saturday night approximately 270 miles north of Bermuda.
Coast Guard and Navy assets searched approximately three-thousand square miles for a 47-year-old female and 44-year-old male. The female was a U.S. citizen, and the male a Swedish [...]
Coast Guard Airlifts Sick Fisherman
NEW YORK-The Coast Guard is airlifting a man suffering from chest pains aboard a fishing vessel approximately 100 miles south of Montauk, N.Y., today.
Coast Guard Sector South Eastern New England received the initial broken radio transmission at 1:30 p.m. from the Fishing Vessel Courtney Elizabeth, a 75-foot fishing vessel home ported in Point Judith, R.I. [...]
Rafters get underway from Vicksburg
VICKSBURG, Miss. – Coast Guard marine inspectors from the Marine Safety Detachment here inspected a homemade paddle boat raft at approximately 1 p.m., today and found that the raft had sufficient improvements to the steering and propulsion systems, which lead to the approval to proceed clearance from the Coast Guard.
Rafters: James Burkart, Libby Hendon and [...]
Coast Guard Continues Search for Sailors Missing Off Bermuda
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is continuing its search for two sailors who went missing during a storm Saturday night approximately 270 miles north of Bermuda.
A Coast Guard C -130, and MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flight crew from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., are assisting with the search. In addition, the U.S.S. Carter [...]
Coast Guard Continues Dominican Republic Storm Relief
MIAMI – U.S. Coast Guard aircrews distributed 550 rations of food and 240 rations of water, 30 boxes of blankets and 5,000 personal hygiene items Sunday to victims of Tropical Storm Noel in the Dominican Republic.
Coast Guard aircrews flew a combined total of 14 hours Sunday during five sorties and have, since Thursday, saved 54 [...]
Memorial Service Scheduled for Boothbay Harbor Officer in Charge
Boothbay Harbor, Maine – A memorial service will be held Wednesday November 7th at 11:00 a.m. for Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer David L. Smith at Our Lady Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church.
Chief Smith was killed in a car accident in the early hours of Sunday October 28th, in Westport Island, Maine.
Chief Smith, the [...]