The Saginaw News reports that:
The U.S. Coast Guard helped rescue six men trapped on separate ice floes in Saginaw Bay.
The first call came in Friday afternoon reporting four fishermen stranded on an ice floe southwest of Fish Point in Tuscola County.
The men had rode all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles out for a day of ice fishing, [...]
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Coast Guard called to rescue six on ice floes
Coast Guard Recovers Body of Panama City Beach Drowning Victim
The News Herald reports that a man drowned this afternoon in Panama city.
A resident was watching the man swim from his condo and noticed that he disappeared. The Panama City Beach Police and the Coast Guard recovered the mans body a short time later. No information about the victim has been released.
Coast Guard Responding to Helicopter Crash
NEW ORLEANS – Coast Guard crews are responding to a helicopter crash with four passengers onboard which occured at approximately 6 p.m. today two miles east of the jetty approximately halfway up the Southwest Pass.
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a mayday call from the shrimp vessel Sally Kim 4 reporting that an Air Logistics [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 30 Cubans and 34 Haitians
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Pea Island repatriated 30 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cubanãs Cuba, and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous repatriated 34 Haitian migrants to Port au Prince, Haiti, Saturday subsequent to three separate at-sea interdictions.
A Good Samaritan vessel contacted search and rescue coordinators at [...]
Coast Guard continues search for missing man in Atchafalaya River
NEW ORLEANS – Coast Guard crews continue to search for a missing boater who was last reported to be in the Atchafalaya River near Cow Island Tuesday.
Keith Gilcrease, 47, was reported missing by his family at 1 p.m. Tuesday to the St. Martins Sheriff’s Department. He was last seen in a 16-foot boat.
Coast Guard [...]
SITREP: Coast Guard Auxiliary e-zine
So who are these volunteers who wear the Coast Guard Auxiliary uniform? Stop by SITREP and see what they are up to.
SITREP started out as a project to allow the National Public Affairs Department (A Department) to cover the events of OPSAIL 2000. It was the brainchild of Fred Gates and Gregg Trask. It [...]