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Posts on ‘May 4th, 2008’

Coast Guard crew rescues 7 lost in fog

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A Coast Guard crew rescued seven people who were disoriented in the fog aboard a 22-foot boat Saturday two miles off the coast of Wildwood, N.J.
The Coast Guard received a call at 5 p.m. from a passenger aboard the sport fishing boat Addiction reporting their GPS was disabled and they were [...]

Boating Accident Off Key Biscayne Injures 2

Miami – The Coast Guard responded to a report of a personal watercraft collision north of Key Biscayne, Fla., at Bear Cut, Sunday.
The watchstander at Coast Guard Station Miami Beach, Fla., received a phone call from a good Samaritan stating there had been a PWC accident and two people were seriously injured.
A Coast Guard rescue [...]

Coast Guard Medevacs Man from Cargo Ship

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 34-year-old man from a bulk cargo ship in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 150 miles south of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, today.
At approximately 12 p.m., a watchstander at the Eighth Coast Guard District Command Center received a call from a crewman aboard the bulk [...]