MIAMI – The Coast Guard suspended its search at approximately 7:30 p.m. Wednesday for a 28-year-old Chinese crewmember believed to have gone overboard from the cruise ship Celebrity Constellation Monday morning.
The Coast Guard initially suspended its search at approximately 10 p.m. Tuesday but resumed its efforts this morning after receiving new information regarding video surveillance [...]
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Search for Missing Cruise Ship Crewmember Suspended
Coast Guard Rescues Two From Ice in Ontario
RONDEAU HARBOR, Ontario — Coast Guard Air Station Detroit rescued two men stranded on the ice on Lake Erie, just due north of Cleveland, in Rondeau Harbor today at approximately 4:45 p.m.
An HH-65 rescue helicopter crew hoisted the two and transferred them to a medical facility.
The men contacted their mother after the ice conditions deteriorated. [...]
Coast Guard rescues 2 Air Force F-15C Eagle pilots
NEW ORLEANS – At approximately 5 p.m. Coast Guard crews located and rescued two Air Force F-15C Eagle pilots, from the 33rd Fighter Wing attached to Eglin Air Force Base Fla., after their aircraft were reported missing in the Gulf of Mexico today at approximately 2 p.m.
A HC-144A Ocean Sentry from Coast Guard Aviation Training [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Stranded Fisherman
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 39-year-old man from an oil rig located approximately 90 miles south of Lafayette this afternoon.
An HH-65C Dolphin helicopter crew received the call at 12:30 p.m. from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, reporting that a stranded fisherman was recovered from a platform by a Good Samaritan helicopter and [...]
Coast Guard rescues 5 Haitian mariners
CARIBBEAN SEA – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dependable rescued five Haitian mariners Monday after the 40-foot wood sailboat they were on became disabled about 25 miles off the coast of Haiti.
The five men had been underway for eight days and were transiting from Nassau, Bahamas, back to Haiti carrying cargo of mattresses [...]
Dominican Navy, U.S. Coast Guard seize 80 kilos of cocaine
DominicanToday
SANTO DOMINGO.- Navy chief Julio Cesar Ventura said today that jointly with United States Coast Guard vessel, seamen seized 80 kilos of cocaine, a boat and a speedboat on Monday.
Ventura said joint Navy and U.S. Coast Guard operations in the Mona Passage and the Caribbean Sea made the confiscation possible. He said the drug had [...]
Coast Guard Mitigates Pollution from Grounded Vessesl
JUNEAU, Alaska — The 82-ft fishing vessel Westward ran aground Sunday on a rocky shore in the vicinity of Point Ildefonso on the southwest side of Prince of Wales Island. Crewmembers from another fishing vessel in the area, the Confidence, rescued the stricken vessel’s two crewmembers.
The Westward, built in 1943, has two large holes [...]