NEW YORK- A 40-year old man from Fairview, Mass., was medevaced from a vessel 20 miles south of Fire Island Inlet, N.Y., around 1:33 p.m., today.
The master of the 84-foot commercial fishing vessel Jane Elizabeth requested a Coast Guard medevac via marine band radio channel 16 at 12:10 p.m., after a passenger complained of chest [...]
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Massachusetts native rescued south of Fire Island, N.Y.
Coast Guard Cutter Returns After 2-Month Patrol
PORTSMOUTH, VA – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare returns to Portsmouth, Va., Wednesday after a two-month patrol in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean.
During this patrol the Legare worked for Joint Interagency Task Force South, an organization responsible for the detection and monitoring of suspect air and maritime drug activity in the Caribbean [...]
Man Rescued South of Fire Island
NEW YORK- A 40-year old man from Fairview, Mass., was medevaced from a vessel 20 miles south of Fire Island Inlet, N.Y., around 1:33 p.m. today.
The master of the 84-foot commercial fishing vessel Jane Elizabeth requested a Coast Guard medevac via marine band radio channel 16 at 12:10 p.m after a passenger complained of chest [...]
Boot Camp Gets A New Commanding Officer
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Coast Guard Training Center Cape May will host a change of command ceremony Thursday May 22, 2008 at 2 p.m. on the training center’s parade field.
Capt. Cari B. Thomas, previously the Atlantic Area Resource Director in Portsmouth, Va., will assume the responsibilities of command for Training Center Cape May from Capt. [...]
Guard D.O.G.s Compilation
During the May 16, 2008 broadcast of This Week in the Pentagon, airing on the Pentagon Channel, they presented this compilation of the 5 part series, Guard D.O.G.s, about the Deployable Operations Group’s Assessment and Selection.
Coast Guard searching for overboard fisherman
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi is searching for a fisherman who went overboard the 48 foot fishing boat named “UT” at approximately 8:40 a.m. when the boat broke a fishing gear line in Matagorda Bay, Texas.
The overboard fisherman, Nhan Nhuyen, was reported as not being able to swim and was not [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Car in Industrial Canal
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard and the New Orleans Police Department vessels are responding to a report of a car falling off of the Claiborne Avenue Bridge in New Orleans.
At approximately 2 a.m. this morning, a watchstander at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report that a minivan carrying multiple people drove over [...]