JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard urges all interested parties to attend a meeting at 1pm on April 7, 2008 to review and improve the Tongass Narrows Voluntary Waterway Guide. The Southeast Alaska Pilots’ Association will host the meeting at the “Crow’s Nest” on the U.S. Coast Guard base in Ketchikan.
Since taking effect in [...]
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Public Meeting Scheduled Regarding Tongass Narrows Waterway
Coast Guard Begins Ice breaking on Kennebeck River
The Pentagon Channel reports on the Coast Guards annual ice breaking operations on Maine’s Kennebec River. There is between 10 and 18 inches of ice on the River.
Coast Guard Responds to Disabled Sailing Vessel
MONTERREY, Calif. – The Coast Guard responded to a distress call made by the 41-foot sailing vessel “Carmelita” after it received a report that the vessel lost both power and steering 15 miles south of Pt. Sur, Calif., very early on Friday morning.Upon receiving the call at 12:45 a.m., a 47-foot Motor Life Boat from [...]
Coast Guard closes Meramac River
ST. LOUIS – Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Sector Upper Misssissippi River has closed the Meramac River in Missouri to all recreational boaters.
This closure is a result of dangerous high water and flooding conditions on and around the Meramac River.
The Coast Guard warns the public these extreme high water conditions make any activity along [...]
Coast Guard rescues man from burning vessel
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Coast Guard rescued a man from a burning, 17-foot boat near the north end of the Pensacola Bay Bridge at approximately 7:30 p.m., Thursday night.
Coast Guard Station Pensacola received a mayday transmission from a man reporting an engine fire on board his 17-foot bass boat. Coast Guard Sector Mobile launched [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 78 Cubans
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Kodiak Island repatriated 78 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cubañas, Cuba, Friday who were interdicted during 12 separate events during the past 11 days.
The crew of the motor vessel Erik Spirit embarked four Cuban migrants around 9:30 a.m. March 11, from a raft about 130 miles [...]
Coast Guard rescues 52 from SE Missouri floods
St. Louis – As of 7 a.m., Coast Guard air and boatcrews from St. Louis, New Orleans and Paducah, Ky., have rescued 52 people and 15 pets from flood waters in Poplar Bluff, Allenville and Eureka.
Forty people were trapped on Coon Island in the vicinity of Popular Bluff and were rescued by two Coast Guard [...]