WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard’s first National Security Cutter, Bertholf, completed five days of acceptance trials in Pascagoula, Miss., April 11, 2008. Acceptance trials culminate many months of preliminary tests and evaluations before a new ship can be delivered to the government by its contractors. The U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection [...]
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Coast Guard, Police Rescue Two Outside San Juan Harbor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard watchstanders and small boat crews from Station San Juan coordinated with the Puerto Rico Police marine unit in the rescue of two distressed mariners Thursday evening aboard a disabled pleasure craft at the mouth of San Juan Harbor.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector San Juan received an emergency [...]
Alaska Ranger Investigation to continue Saturday
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard (USCG) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Marine Board of Investigation into the March 23 sinking of the Alaska Ranger reconvened here today in the San Juan-Whidbey Room of the Red Lion Hotel at 1415 5th Ave.
The goal of the Marine Board is to identify the causal events of the [...]
Coast Guard To Conduct LE Training with Paintballs
TOLEDO — Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit (MSU) Toledo personnel will conduct law enforcement training using a Simunitions system, Saturday, from approximately 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., on board the S.S. Willis Boyer Museum Ship.
The Simunitions system uses paintball guns that have been specially modified to feel like a real gun. The Simunitions gun [...]
121.5 MHz Satellite Distress Alerting Ends Next Year
SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard is reminding boaters to check their boating equipment, because after Feb. 1, 2009, only distress alerts from 406 MHz beacons will continue to be detected and processed by search and rescue satellites worldwide. Older model EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons) that transmit a distress alert on [...]
Traverse City Aircrew Supports Lighthouse Maintenance on the Maine Coast
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Commander Stu Merrill, the Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard’s Air Station Traverse City, along with his crew of Lieutenant Joan Snaith, Aviation Maintenance Technician First Class Joe McGuire and Aviation Electrical Technician Second Class Adam Morehouse, assisted members of the Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation Team out of Portland, Maine [...]
Alaska Ranger Sinking Investigative Board to Continue Friday
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard (USCG) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Marine Board of Investigation into the March 23 sinking of the Alaska Ranger reconvened here today in the San Juan-Whidbey Room of the Red Lion Hotel at 1415 5th Ave.
The goal of the Marine Board is to identify the causal events of the [...]