Posts on ‘March 9th, 2008’

HONOLULU – A Coast Guard patrol boat rescue crew are en route to assist a 30-year-old man suffering from stomach pains 300 miles north of Oahu.
The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Kiska, a 110-foot patrol boat stationed in Hilo, was diverted from routine operations Saturday afternoon to assist the sick crewmember aboard the [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A 75-foot fishing boat with three people aboard ran aground Saturday 25-yards off the coast of Wildwood, N.J.
The Coast Guard received a call at 2 a.m. reporting the Star II aground.
Wildwood Fire and Rescue arrived on scene and transported the three people aboard to shore.
A commercial salvage company has been hired [...]

SEATTLE – Two kayakers were rescued by the Coast Guard after they were overcome by rough waters near Cannon Beach, Ore., Saturday afternoon.
At 4:51 p.m., the Seaside, Ore., 911 center requested assistance from the Coast Guard after it was reported that the two kayakers were in distress near Arcadia Beach.
An HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from [...]

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard airlifted an injured crewmen from a 40-foot fishing vessel Saturday 29 miles west of Port Angeles, Wash.
At 7:58 p.m., the master of the fishing vessel Puget Sound contacted Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles on VHF channel 16 to request assistance after the crewman became injured.
An HH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew [...]

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 47-year-old male from a tanker vessel approximately 220 miles south of Southwest Pass, Saturday evening.
A watchstander at the Eighth Coast Guard District Command Center received a call at approximately 4 p.m. that a crewmember aboard the vessel Zeus was experiencing possible appendicitis.
Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in [...]

CHARLOTTE HARBOR, Fla. – The Coast Guard rescued two boaters from an 18-foot flats boat that ran aground about three-miles east of Boca Grande Pass in Gasparilla Sound at about 9:30 p.m., March 8.
The Coast Guard received a call at about 7 p.m., March 8, from Bob Howard, a friend of the boaters, reporting that [...]

MIAMI — The Coast Guard is searching for a 39-year-old woman reported to have jumped from the cruise ship Costa Mediterranea early Sunday morning 20 miles southeast of Key Largo, Fla.
The Costa Mediterranea’s crew notified the Coast Guard at 1:18 a.m. reporting that the woman’s boyfriend, traveling aboard with her, said she had become angry [...]