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Posts on ‘April 25th, 2008’

Coast Guard Assists In Gulf of Mexico Medevac

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard coordinated with the Air Force in the medevac of six people in the Gulf of Mexico, 300 miles south of New Orleans, today.
The Coast Guard received a report from a crewmember aboard the vessel Eos, an 800-foot tanker ship, stating they had made visual contact with another vessel, which [...]

Coast Guard Investigating Fishing Boat Death

JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is currently investigating a fatality at sea, which occurred yesterday onboard the fishing vessel (F/V) Zenith approximately 72 miles southeast of False Pass.
A 39-year-old man was repairing an apparent gas leak when fellow crew members found him unconscious. After finding the man unconscious the vessel contacted the Coast [...]

Coast Guard Rescues Three

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – A Coast Guard rescue crew saved three men and their boat today after their vessel began to take on water approximately 13-miles east of Port Canaveral today at 7:28 a.m.
Chad Younggreen, 30, of Apopka, Fla., was piloting his 22-foot recreational fishing vessel with Anthony Hurd, 36, of Orlando and Charles Hurd, [...]

Coast Guard Cutter Patrols the Middle East

CENTRAL ARABIAN GULF – The 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Maui transits alongside the USS Harry S. Truman in the Central Arabian Gulf April 10. The cutter Maui, originally homeported in Miami, is one of six Coast Guard patrol boats assigned to Patrol Forces Southwest Asia in Bahrain as part of Combined Task Force 158. The [...]