WAUKEGAN, IL (D9 Public Affairs) – Coast Guard Station Kenosha rescued four persons in the water from a boat taking on water six miles north east of Waukegan Harbor this evening at approximately 9:30 p.m.
A 41-foot utility boat crew recovered four men from a 22-foot Wellcraft that sank in the harbor.
The operator of the [...]
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Coast Guard Station Kenosha Rescues Four People in Water
Coast Guard rescues 3 people from capsized sailing vessel
PENSACOLA, Fla. (D8 Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard rescued three people from a capsized 17-foot sailing vessel in Pensacola Bay at approximately 4 p.m. today.
Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a call from Florida Fisheries and Wildlife at 3:30 p.m. today reporting that a boat was in distress with three people aboard.
Sector Mobile launched a [...]
Coast Guard looking for owner of abandoned, drifting kayak
BOSTON (D1 Public Affairs) – Coast Guard Sector Boston is looking for the owner of a yellow kayak that was reported abandoned, overturned and drifting out of Gloucester Harbor in Gloucester, Mass., about 5 p.m., today.
Two 25-foot response boats from Station Gloucester and a Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., searched the area [...]
Warm weather keeps Coast Guard busy
BOSTON (D1 Public Affairs) – Coast Guard Sector Northern New England was extremely busy conducting multiple operations as warm temperatures sharply increased boating activity in New England waters this past weekend.
Personnel from the sector, located in South Portland, Maine, responded to three fires. The first occurred Friday when the Washburn and Doughty Shipyard in East [...]
Coast Guard searching for over board man
BALTIMORE (D5 Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard is searching today for a man who went over board from his boat near Love Point, Md.
Coast Guard Station Annapolis received notification from Anne Arundel County dispatch at 6:26 p.m. of a man going over board and has not been seen since.
Rescue crews from Coast Guard Station [...]
Coast Guard crews searching for missing swimmer near Philadelphia
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (D5 Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard is searching today for a 21-year-old man who disappeared while swimming with a friend 30 yards from the Talcony-Palmyra Bridge near Philadelphia.
Missing is Sandro Valentine.
The Coast Guard received a call at 7:21 p.m. from a member of the Philadelphia Police Department reporting Valentine disappeared under [...]
Six People Recovered from the Water Near Sandy Hook, NJ
NEW YORK (D1 Public Affairs) -Six people were pulled from the water after their 25-foot vessel sank one mile west of Sandy Hook Point, N.J., at about 3:45 p.m. today.
A Good Samaritan and Sea Tow, a commercial salvage company, heard the report via marine band radio channel 16 at 3:40 p.m. that a vessel was [...]