SEATTLE – The Coast Guard responded to a disabled 12-foot sailing vessel with a father and son on board near Point No Point, Wash., today.
Coast Guard Sector Seattle received a report from a Good Samaritan at 2:20 p.m., that a red flare had been sighted in the vicinity of Point No Point. The Good Samaritan [...]
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Coast Guard responds to disabled sailing vessel – Photo available
Coast Guard Medevacs Man From Tenakee Springs
SITKA, Alaska – An HH-60J “Jayhawk” helicopter was launched from Air Station Sitka just before 9 p.m. Saturday to medevac a 52- year-old man suffering from a diving injury in Tenakee Springs.
The man reportedly experienced an equipment malfunction while diving in the Tenakee area, and was forced to surface without adhering to his planned [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Four At Entrance to Charleston Harbor
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Four boaters were rescued by the Coast Guard after their vessel ran aground near the jetties on the southern portion of the Charleston Harbor entrance today at approximately 4:20 p.m.
Anne Sinkinson, 52, from Gloucester, Mass., Elizabeth Sinkinson, 27, of Charleston, and Mary Taylor, 55, from Tennington, N.J., were on a 33-foot vessel [...]
Coast Guard Cadets Clean-up – video from Jamie Muro
Coast Guard Academy Cadets spent Sunday afternoon cleaning up parks around New London.
Story by News Channel 8’s Jamie Muro
Coast Guard To Present Bronze Star To Air Force Hero
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The Coast Guard is scheduled to honor an Air Force reservist during a ceremony on Coast Guard Island, Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Manson K. Brown, commander of Maintenance and Logistics Command Pacific, will present Air Force Maj. Steven E. Rickenbacher with a Bronze Star Medal and a [...]
Three Oscoda Residents to Receive Coast Guard Lifesaving Medal
EAST TAWAS, Mich. – Three residents of the Oscoda, Mich., community will be presented a Silver Lifesaving Medal for heroic actions performed on January 10, 2007.
Capt. Patrick Brennan, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Detroit, will present the medals at the East Tawas Community Center, here, to Andrea G. Aites, William E. Wright and George [...]
correction: Coast Guard ends search for missing pilot
BOSTON – The Coast Guard ended the search today for the pilot of a private plane that crashed about one mile offshore of Belfast, Maine, Sunday.
Coast Guard Station Rockland, Maine, received a call from the Waldo County dispatch reporting a plane piloted by Doug Low, 60, of Lincolnville, Maine, crashed into the water near the [...]