MIAMI – The Coast Guard is searching for a boater who disappeared from his vessel three miles east of Key Largo, Fla., Saturday afternoon.
Two good Samaritans just off Elliot Key, Fla., located a 25-foot boat with no one aboard heading toward their vessel. They managed to stop the vessel and, after going onboard, [...]
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Coast Guard Searching for Missing Miami Boater
Repair and Recovery Operations Continue After Collision in Newark Bay
New York – A unified command with representatives from the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock LLC (the owner of the Dredge New York), Coast Guard Sector New York, New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) and the vessel Orange Sun continue to monitor the repair and [...]
Coast Guard Responds to Natural Gas Leak
ROCKPORT, Texas – A Coast Guard HH-65C helicopter crew and pollution investigator from Sector Corpus Christi responded to a report of a 3000-foot by 150-foot sheen in Aransas Bay at 10:20 a.m.
The Coast Guard was assisted by the Texas General Land Office in determining that the sheen was coming from a broken pipe off a [...]
Coast Guard medevacs man from oil rig in Gulf of Mexico
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 52-year-old man from an oil rig platform approximately 40 miles east of Venice, La., in the Gulf of Mexico, this morning.
A watchstander from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call at 7:48 a.m. from a co-worker on the Viosca Knoll 900 oil rig reporting that a [...]