HONOLULU — A Coast Guard rescue aircrew hoisted an ill man from a motor vessel approximately 80 miles north of Oahu Tuesday at 10 a.m.
The Coast Guard received a call from the crew of the 789-foot motor vessel Cma Cgm Purple at 11:45 a.m. Monday concerning an ill 25-year-old male crewmember.
A Coast Guard flight surgeon [...]
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Coast Guard Airlifts Ill Man 80 Miles North of Oahu
Coast Guard Rescues Couple Stranded on Ice
SAGINAW, Mich. – The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a husband and his pregnant wife, today, after the two were stranded on the ice in Saginaw Bay at approximately 7 p.m.
Both the husband, 27, and wife, 23, were returned to Coast Guard Station Saginaw River with no injuries.
The couple was ice-fishing in the bay approximately 4.5 [...]
Coast Guard Continues Search for Missing Balloonist
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard located partially submerged objects approximately 400 miles south of Unmak Island during their search last night for Michio Kanda, the missing balloonist.
The crew from a Coast Guard C-130 Long Range Surveillance Aircraft, from Air Station Kodiak, located white and blue cylinder-shaped objects and a tan colored object almost 300 [...]
Coast Guard Responds to Drifting Freighter Near New Orleans
New Orleans – Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a mayday call at approximately 3 p.m. this afternoon from the 588-foot freight ship Sisnos Sun, which broke from it’s moorings near the Alabo Street Wharf approximately three miles down-river from New Orleans.
The Sisnos Sun first allided with the the 736-foot freight vessel W. H. [...]
Coast Guard Escorts Swift into Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Coast Guard completed an escort of the vessel Swift into the Port of Savannah Tuesday afternoon.
The vessel Swift, which was carrying four over-sized gantry cranes, was under Coast Guard escort from the sea buoy to Garden City Terminal by two patrol craft from Station Tybee, Ga., three Coast Guard Auxiliary patrol [...]
Unified command continues to assist disabled LNG tanker
BOSTON – The Unified Command at Coast Guard Sector Boston is continuing to monitor and assist the Liquefied Natural Gas tanker Catalunya Spirit, which lost propulsion and became disabled east of Cape Cod Monday morning.
The Catalunya Spirit is about 33 miles east of Chatham, Mass., and is being towed by tugs Freedom and Iona McAllister, [...]
Unified command continues to assist disabled LNG tanker
BOSTON – The Unified Command at Coast Guard Sector Boston is continuing to monitor and assist the Liquefied Natural Gas tanker Catalunya Spirit, which lost propulsion and became disabled and adrift east of Cape Cod Monday morning.
Teekay Corporation, which operates the Catalunya Spirit, contracted four tugboats and three technical representatives to assist the tanker. The [...]