ATLANTIC OCEAN- The Coast Guard rescued four fishermen today aboard a disabled boat 60 miles off the coast of Maine.
The Coast Guard received a call just after midnight from a crewmember aboard the Maria and Dorothy reporting engine problems.
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dependable, arrived on scene and is towing the boat and [...]
Posts on ‘July 14th, 2008’
Coast Guard crew rescues 4 near Maine
Coast Guard crews medevac diver
SAN DIEGO – The crew of a Coast Guard Sector San Diego MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter medevaced a man from a diving charter today off the coast of San Clemente Island, Calif.
The diver, a 60-year-old man, was diving off the anchored diving charter Visions two miles off San Clemente Island when he was brought to the [...]
Cutter Dallas Conducts At-Sea Exercise with Equatorial Guinea Navy
ATLANTIC OCEAN – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas (WHEC 716) concluded a three-day visit to the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea July 11 with an at-sea exercise involving five Equatorial Guinean naval vessels.
Dallas, a 378-foot cutter home ported in Charleston, S.C., is currently deployed off the coast of West and Central Africa in support [...]
Coast Guard members donate hair for charity
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (D5 Public Affairs) – Six local Coast Guard members from Coast Guard Integrated Support Command Portsmouth, Va., are scheduled to participate in a Locks of Love charity event Wednesday, July 16 at ISC Portsmouth.
The six participants will donate their hair to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing high quality hair [...]
Coast Guard cutter towing disabled fishing boat
BOSTON (D1 Public Affairs) – A Coast Guard cutter is towing a Portland, Maine, fishing vessel with four people aboard that became disabled and adrift about 60 miles southeast of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, around 12 a.m., Sunday.
The Coast Guard Cutter Dependable, from Cape May, N.J., is currently towing the 44-foot vessel, Maria and Dorothy, [...]
Cutter Haddock Holds Change of Command Tuesday
SAN DIEGO (PADET San Diego) – Lt. Reyna Hernandez will be relieved by Lt.j.g. Thomas Brittingham as the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Haddock during a change of command ceremony Tuesday, at 10 a.m., at Sector San Diego.
Hernandez’s first assignment was onboard cutter Decisive in Pascagoula, Miss., where she served as a [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Person After Boat Capsizes
LINWOOD, MI (D9 Public Affairs) – Coast Guard Station Saginaw rescued one person in the water from an overturned boat six miles northeast of Linwood, MI this morning at approximately 6:44 a.m.
A 25-foot boat crew recovered one person from the 15-foot open fishing boat. The fishing boat had overturned three miles north east of Linwood, [...]