SEATTLE – The Coast Guard 52-foot motor lifeboat Triumph II, laid a wreath during held a memorial service today honoring five crew members who lost their lives aboard the 52-foot motor lifeboat Triumph I, 47 years ago near Ilwaco, Wash. Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class David Marin
The Triumph I was stationed [...]
Posts on ‘January 12th, 2008’
Fallen Coast Guardsmen remembered during memorial service at Cape Disappointment
Coast Guard suspends its search for missing boy off Ventura County
Ventura County, Calif – The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search at 6:20 p.m. this evening for the 16-year old boy who was washed into the ocean off of Mugu Rock.
Two Coast Guard rescue boats from Coast Guard Station Channel Islands Harbor and one Coast Guard rescue helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles [...]
Coast Guard patrols waters and cliffs during surf competition
ALAMEDA, Calf. – The Coast Guard spent the afternoon patrolling the waters and cliff sides near Half Moon Bay, Calif., during the Mavericks surfing competition.
The large waves brought out the surfers as well as their support boats a group of spectators in the water. The Coast Guard Cutter Sockeye and a rescue boat from [...]
Coast Guard Miami Medevac’s South African Boy from Cruise Ship
MIAMI – A rescue crew from Air Station Miami medevaced a nine year-old boy from Royal Caribbeans cruise ship, Freedom of the Seas 40 miles south of Key West, Fla., after severing a finger Saturday.
Search and rescue coordinators from the Seventh Coast Guard District command center in Miami were notified by the captain of the [...]
Coast Guard Responds to Plane Crash at St. Petersburg Airport
CLEARWATER – The Coast Guard has responded to a small plane crash into the waters near St. Petersburg-Clearwater airport. A Coast Guard official said that the plane went down about 50 yards from a runway and that there were three people on board, three of them were dead.
Crews from the FAA, NTSB, Petersburg Fire/Rescue and [...]
Coast Guard Monitors Vessel Cleanup
JOHN’S PASS, Fla. – The Coast Guard is continuing to monitor the cleanup efforts of the Rodac, a 33-foot commercial shrimping vessel homeported in Reddington Beach, Fla., that sunk Friday at the entrance to John’s Pass, Fla.
The Coast Guard received a call at about 10:15 p.m. Friday from Rodac’s captain reporting the vessel was aground [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Possible Bay Bridge Jumper
ContraCostaTimes.com reports that:
A woman climbed over the rail of the Bay Bridge around 11:45 a.m. Saturday in what appears to be a suicide attempt, according to the Coast Guard.
The unidentified woman is a suspected “bridgejumper,” said Petty Officer Jonathan Cilley.
Two California Highway Patrol helicoptors and a 41-foot Coast Guard vessel are at the scene, Cilley [...]