SEATTLE – The Coast Guard anticipates closing multiple river bars throughout Oregon and Washington beginning as early as Saturday due to the potential for extreme winds and heavy seas that are expected through the region over the following few days. Should extreme weather require closure of all or a portion of the bars, the Coast [...]
Posts on ‘December 28th, 2007’
Coast Guard Monitors Disabled Container Ship
NEW YORK – The U.S. Coast Guard continues to monitor today a drifting container ship that lost power Wednesday about 90 miles southeast of Nantucket, R.I.
The Agaman, a 331-foot general cargo container ship, owned by the Komrowski Shipping Company based in Hamburg, Germany, was on a voyage from Cuba to Canada when contaminated fuel seized [...]
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Sailor off Virginia
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard has suspended it’s search for a sailor reported missing from a merchant vessel, 80 miles off the Virginia coast, this evening.
Search crews onboard two C-130’s from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and the merchant vessel, Ever Refine, started searching the waters off Virginia shortly after the 23-year-old Chinese native, [...]
Six stars keep family ‘business’ running 200 years strong
by 1st Lt. Amy Cooper, AFSOC Public Affairs
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. Some might say the Wurster brothers are the senior executive officers in the family business.
Even though they oversee more than 39,900 employees between their divisions, you still won’t find their organization on Forbes’ list of the largest public companies, and they certainly aren’t on [...]
Fisherman Medevaced Near Sandy Hook, NJ
NEW YORK – The Coast Guard medevaced a man reportedly suffering a seizure aboard a fishing vessel three miles off of Sandy Hook, N.J., at around 9 a.m. today.
The man was a passenger aboard the Elaine B II, a head boat based in Highlands, N.J. Crewmembers noticed the man go into what they described [...]
Coast Guard to increase security presence during New Year’s Eve, and BCS Bowls
NEW ORLEANS- Local citizens and visitors will begin seeing an increased Coast Guard presence in the air and on the water as Coast Guard units begin operating an increased patrol schedule in preparation for New Year’s Eve, the Sugar Bowl and BCS Bowl festivities here.
The increased security initiatives will include extra patrols, deployment of additional [...]
Coast Guard responding to vessel taking on water
Coast Guard searches for missing crew
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is responding to a distress call received today from an offshore supply vessel located approximately 75 miles south of Grand Isle, La.
A watchstander from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received the distress call at 4:30 a.m. via marine radio reporting that the vessel was [...]