JUNEAU, Alaska – The Seventeenth Coast Guard District (D17) will be conducting Arctic Domain Awareness flights approximately every two weeks and the next one is Thursday (Nov. 8th). Members of the media are invited to ride along, interview crew members and obtain imagery of the Arctic as part of the Coast Guard’s initiative to establish [...]
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Coast Guard continues offshore pipeline response
PORT ARTHUR – Coast Guard MSU Port Arthur, Texas General Land Office, and The O’Brien’s Group continue to respond to an offshore crude oil pipeline release approximately four miles offshore of McFaddin Beach, Texas. Two oil spill response boats remain on scene.
Shoreline assessment teams today observed a light sheen on shore approximately 2.5 miles [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Returns from Far East
ALAMEDA, Calif. –The Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell returns to its homeport of Alameda after a 108-day deployment to the Far East.
Boutwell was deployed as the U.S. Coast Guard representative to the North Pacific Coast Guard Forum, a six-nation body created to combat international illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing on the Northern Pacific Ocean. The [...]
Coast Guard Shines Spotlight on Crab Fisherman
ALAMEDA, Calif. – One of the most dangerous jobs in America is commercial fishing, and crab fishing is the most deadly of all commercial fisheries. Every year, California fishermen lose their life and/or their vessels during crab season.
California’s crab season begins on November 15th for the Central coast (Avila-Morro Bay to the mouth of the [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Pregnant Woman in Dominican Republic
MIAMI – U.S. Coast Guard aircrews medically evacuated a pregnant woman and a nine-year-old boy from San Jose de Ocoa to San Isidro Air Base, Dominican Republic Monday, and they transported seven doctors and needed supplies from the town of Azua to Las Cenitas, Dominican Republic.
Coast Guard aircrews flew a combined total of 7.5 hours [...]
Manbirtee Key Security Zone Public Meeting Announced
TAMPA, Fla. – The Coast Guard will hold a public meeting at 10 a.m. on Nov. 13, at the Port Manatee Access Control Center at Port Manatee, 300 Tampa Bay Way, Palmetto, Fla., regarding the proposed security zone in the Manbirtee Key area of the Port of Manatee.As published in the Federal Register, Volume 72, [...]
Coast Guard, tow boat work to save life, then boat
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Coast Guard and Towboat U.S., a commercial salvage company, worked together to save a fisherman’s life about 16 miles south of Atlantic City, today.
Rescued was Gregory Cooper, 45, of New Bedford, Mass.
The Coast Guard received a call at 8:28 p.m. Monday from the captain of the 42-foot fishing boat Linda [...]