SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Captain Paul M. Gugg relieved Captain John E. Long as Sector San Francisco Commander today during a change of command ceremony on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, CA.
Coast Guard Sector San Francisco is responsible for all day-to-day Coast Guard operations throughout most of Northern California, Nevada, Utah and a small part [...]
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Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Change of Command
Retired Coast Guard Officer to Head NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
Washington – David Westerholm, former chief of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Response, has been named the new director of NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration.
Westerholm will be responsible for overseeing NOAA’s efforts to prepare for and respond to environmental hazards caused by marine debris and the release of oil and chemicals into the [...]
Coast Guard medevacs injured oyster boat crewman
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 37-year-old man from a vessel in Breton Sound, 15 miles east of Port Sulphur this afternoon.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Station Venice received a radio call at 11:15 a.m. from the fishing vessel Lady Jennifer, reporting that a crewmember had fallen and injured himself. The injured [...]
Whale Sighted Inside the Long Beach Breakwater
SAN PEDRO, Calif – Officials from the Coast Guard received a report of what is believed to be an approximately 20-foot long whale swimming inside the Long Beach breakwater this morning at 11:45 a.m. The Coast Guard cautions vessel operators transiting in the area to stay clear of the whale. The Coast Guard is supporting [...]
Coast Guard Responds to Tow Boat Sinking
PADUCAH, Ky. – The Coast Guard is responding to a tow boat that sunk in the Tennessee River at approximately mile marker 11.5 today.
Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Paducah was notified that the tow boat Janet Leavell had sank at approximately 12:45 p.m., and is coordinating efforts with Wepfer Marine and the State [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 243 Haitians
MIAMI – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk repatriated 243 Haitian migrants to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday.
The aircrew of an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Clearwater, Fla., deployed to Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, located a sail-freighter with an unknown number of people aboard, approximately 45 miles southwest of Great Inagua, Sunday. [...]
Coast Guard aircrew rescues fisherman – video
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Coast Guard rescued a man aboard an 81-foot fishing boat suffering from chest pain and shortness of breath 70 miles east of Atlantic City, N.J., today.
Rescued was Roberto Bautista, 27.
The Coast Guard received a call at 10:15 a.m. from a crew member aboard the Ocean Princess reporting Bautista was in [...]