CALUMET CITY, Ill. – The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting an investigation into the grounding and subsequent oil spill from the towing vessel Dale White in the Cal-Sag Channel.
The 78-foot vessel briefly grounded and continued its voyage to a slip on the Calumet River. The Coast Guard, with assistance from the Illinois EPA and [...]
Posts on ‘March 26th, 2008’
Coast Guard Investigating Oil Spill from Tow Boat
Coast Guard Conducts Interagency Law Enforcement Training in Chicago
CHICAGO – Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Chicago conducted interagency law enforcement training with a group of local and federal agency partners on March 26.
The training focused on commercial vessel orientation and included time aboard the deep draft vessel St. Mary’s Challenger, a 530-foot freight ship, at the Illinois International Port in south Chicago.
This event [...]
Coast Guard investigates grounding, multiple barge breakaway
LAPLACE, La -The Coast Guard is responding to a grounded vessel on the Mississippi River today, that ran aground approximately 10 a.m.
Members from the Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Center in New Orleans overheard radio transmissions from the pilot aboard the bulk cargo vessel, Pacific Eagle, describing details of the grounding over marine radio.
Initial reports say [...]
Coast Guard Flood Response
EUREKA, Mo. – Coast Guard Disaster Area Response Team (DART) members search for stranded flood victims in Eureka, MIssouri on March 20, 2008.
Coast Guard Saves Couple and Pets from Sinking Boat in N.C.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard rescue crews from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and Coast Guard Station Hobucken, N.C., rescued two people from a life raft after their boat sank near the mouth of the Neuse River today.
Watch standers at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received a mayday call at 11:42 a.m. from [...]
COAST GUARD SEARCHING FOR OVERDUE SAILORS
CLEARWATER, Fla. – Coast Guard rescue coordinators are asking boaters to be on the look out for two overdue sailors aboard the 35-foot sailboat, Fly Away, scheduled to have arrived in Panama City, Fla., Sunday.
The sailors, one 68-years old of Gulf Shores, Ala., and the other 66-years old, of St. Petersburg, Fla., were reported overdue [...]
Coast Guard Recovers Body of Man from Saginaw Bay
BAY CITY, Mich. – Coast Guard Station Saginaw River recovered a deceased 39-year-old ice fisherman one mile off of Pinconning, Mich. today at approximately 8:00 a.m.
Station Saginaw River launched their 20-foot ice boat, while Air Station Detroit launched a HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to conduct searches of the bay. Throughout the night, these assets [...]