LOS ANGELES, Calif – With Father’s Day just a couple of days away the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary offers some gift ideas for boaters, including, kayakers and other paddle craft operators and personal watercraft operators to help them stay safe all year long.
One of the best gift ideas for boaters is to sign them [...]
Posts on ‘June 11th, 2008’
Father’s Day Gift Ideas for Boaters and Those Who Love Them
Coast Guard to step up enforcement on drifting vessels
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard has become aware that some fishermen engage in the practice of working all day and, then in the evening, allowing their vessels to drift while the entire crew sleeps.
This practice is dangerous and is a violation of basic seamanship rules. This rule known as the “Look-out rule” is listed as [...]
Kodiak Coast Guard Medevacs 2 Crewmembers from Fishing Vessel
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a crewmember and treated another aboard a fishing vessel in Izhut bay at 10 a.m., today.
The Coast Guard received a call at 8:30 a.m., that two crewmembers aboard the 49-foot fishing vessel Kilokak were injured during an altercation.
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter was launched from Air [...]
Coast Guard Sector North Carolina responding to sinking charter vessel
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard Sector North Carolina is responding to a sinking 47- foot diving vessel, with 16 people onboard, near the of mouth of the Cape Fear River this afternoon.
Watch standers at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina were notified at 1:55 p.m., by the crew of the AQUATIC SAFARIS I, a 48-foot diving [...]
Coast Guard Conducts Medevac of 34 year-old-man
McKinleyville- On June 10th, at 05:55 a.m., a crew onboard a U.S. Coast Guard HH-65 helicopter from Air Station Humboldt Bay conducted a medical evacuation of a 34 year-old-man suffering from appendicitis onboard the vessel Hanjin Baltimore, 76 miles west of Pt. Cabrillo.
At 10:15 p.m., Group Humboldt Bay received the call from the district office [...]
Coast Guard Nabs Drug Smuggler and $11 Million Cocaine Shipment
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Coast Guard personnel, working with their partners in the Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG), Puerto Rico, under the Caribbean Corridor Initiative, conducted a drug interdiction Tuesday off the west coast of Puerto Rico, arresting a purported drug smuggler and seizing approximately 1,248 pounds of cocaine and less than a [...]