NEW HAVEN, CONN.–Multiple first-response agencies completed their first summer weekend surge operation in an ongoing effort to educate the boating public and enforce recreational boating safety laws as part of Operation Sector Aggressive Vessel Enforcement Sunday, May 18, 2008.
The Coast Guard worked with more than 20 federal, state, county and local maritime agencies as part [...]
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Long Island Sound Law Enforcement Surge Aims to Promote Safe Boating
Cleanup crews staged to remove diesel from grounded fishing vessel
BOSTON – The Coast Guard is monitoring the efforts of cleanup crews to remove 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel from the fishing vessel that ran aground on the rocks at 3 a.m., today in Point Judith, R.I.
Clean Harbors Environmental Services is planning to stretch a hose from a vacuum tanker truck on shore 300 feet [...]
Fleet Week 2008 Security Zones Established
NEW YORK–The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New York and New Jersey is establishing safety zones on the Upper New York Bay and Hudson River for the 2008 New York Fleet Week Parade of Ships.
The potential exists for unanticipated delays affecting ship movements and/or the control of vessels with little or no [...]
Coast Guard to Offer Safety Exams in Remote Southeast Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska – A team of Coast Guard examiners from Coast Guard Sector Juneau will visit the communities of Elfin Cove, Hoonah and Pelican to conduct voluntary safety exams on commercial fishing vessels and uninspected passenger vessels (UPVs). Commercial fishermen and UPV operators whose boats pass the exams will be less likely to face [...]
Coast Guard Assists in Dedication of Maldives Port Security Organization
NALAGURAIDHOO, Maldives — A new organization dedicated to Indian Ocean regional port and maritime security was inaugurated here today by the Maldivian President and seven of his ministers with help from the U.S. Coast Guard.
The South Asia Regional Port Security Cooperative (SARPSCO) brings together stakeholders from Bangladesh, Comoros, India, Madagascar, the Maldives, Mauritius, Oman, [...]
Ninth Coast Guard District Change of Command Planned
CLEVELAND – Rear Adm. Peter V. Neffenger will relieve Rear Adm. John E. Crowley, Jr., of command of the Ninth Coast Guard District in a change-of-command ceremony, here, Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 1 p.m.
The ceremony will be held at the Port of Cleveland’s Dock #32.
Crowley assumed command of the Ninth Coast Guard District in [...]
Coast Guard rescues 4 near Roosevelt Inlet
INDIAN RIVER, Del. – The Coast Guard rescued four people on Sunday who were aboard a disabled 19-foot boat three miles south of Mispillion Inlet, Del.
The Coast Guard received a call at 12:10 a.m. via 911 reporting the four people aboard the disabled boat were requesting assistance.
A boat crew from Coast Guard Station Roosevelt [...]