This is the first in a series of interviews with the men and women who blog about the U.S. Coast Guard.
Thomas Jackson is the lead blogger at the Coast Guard Report. Started last year as a site that was about a single equal rights case, Coast Guard Report has rapidly grown to [...]
Posts on ‘February 29th, 2008’
5 Questions with Thomas Jackson
Coast Guard rescues Washington kayaker
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard rescued a kayaker from Chuckanut Bay, in the southeast end of Bellingham Bay, Wash., today.
The kayaker, Shelia Weinsheimer abandoned ship when her kayak took on too much water. She was then unable to get back in and decided to hang on to her friend’s kayak while waiting for help.
The [...]
More Regional Exam Centers Transition to National Maritime Center
WASHINGTON – Coast Guard Regional Examination Centers (REC’s) in Memphis, Tenn. and Long Beach, Calif. will join six other RECs that have transitioned to become field units of the National Maritime Center (NMC), located in Martinsburg, W.Va.
On March 3, REC Memphis and REC Los Angeles-Long Beach will become “storefront” operations, with staff focused on [...]
Coast Guard helps tangled fishing boat
BOSTON – The Coast Guard aided a Rhode Island-based fishing crew today after their boat was disabled 50 miles south of Nantucket, Mass.
The crew of the fishing vessel Cap’t Bligh contacted Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England in Woods Hole Mass., via a satellite phone at about 9 a.m., and reported their propeller was tangled [...]
Coast Guard Orders 18 New Response Boats from Marinette Marine
MARINETTE, Wis. – Today the Coast Guard issued a delivery order for 18 new boats to Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC). Congressman Steve Kagen, M.D. and Congressman Bart Stupak made the announcement this morning at a press conference here.
This delivery order represents a $37.5 million obligation by the Coast Guard. Production at Marinette Marine [...]
Coast Guard Expands Biometrics-at-Sea Program to the Florida Straits
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard and US-VISI announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expanding the operation of their successful biometrics-at-sea program to the south Florida Straits.
The Coast Guard is charged with securing the more than 95,000 miles of America’s coastline,” said Rear Adm. Wayne E. Justice, director of response [...]
Coast Guard Locates Missing Kayaker’s Body
Corpus Christi – The crew of a Coast Guard HH-65C rescue helicopter located the body of Stephen Stafford twenty miles South of Corpus Christi yesterday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. ashore the Padre Island National Seashore.
Stephen Stafford went missing on February 17, 2008 while kayaking in Port Aransas, Texas.