BOSTON – Crewmembers from a Kittery, Maine-based Coast Guard cutter offloaded nearly 10,000 pounds of cocaine in Miami today.
While conducting law enforcement patrols in the Caribbean Sea, crewmembers aboard the 270-foot Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, located the 120-foot Honduran-flagged vessel, Miss Dayanna, about 76 miles south of Pedro Bank, Jamaica, June 26.
The crew boarded the [...]
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Coast Guard cutter seizes 10,000 pounds of cocaine, offloads in Miami
Coast Guard Gulf Strike Team Responds to Storage Facility Leak
NEW ORLEANS – Members of the Gulf Strike Team (GST) are assisting members of Coast Guard Sector New Orleans today in removing oil and other hazardous materials from storage facilities owned by Cedyco Corporation in Jefferson Parrish, La.
The three separate storage facilities in Bayou Dupont, Bayou St. Dennis and Mud Lake are considered to be [...]
Coast Guard readies for Cristobal, warns mariners
BOSTON – Coast Guard units in New England are pre-staging crews and equipment and warning offshore mariners in anticipation of Tropical Storm Cristobal expected to arrive today and generate wind gusts up to 55 knots and seas around 20 feet.
Coast Guard shore units are broadcasting weather warnings via VHF/FM radio and a Falcon jet crew [...]
Coast Guard Searching for B-52 Crew After Guam Crash
Rescue crews are searching for survivors of a B-52 bomber that crashed Monday morning off the island of Guam.
Coast Guard continues search for missing swimmer
HOUSTON – The Coast Guard is continuing its search this morning for a missing swimmer, off the 4700 block of the Galveston Seawall in Galveston, Texas.
A watchstander at Sector Houston-Galveston received a call at 8:54 p.m. yesterday from the Galveston Police Department reporting a missing swimmer. The 21-year-old male was last seen swimming with [...]
Coast Guard rescues 3 in Cape May channel
CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard rescued three people today who were disoriented while aboard a 38-foot fishing boat in Cape May Channel in the fog.
The Coast Guard received a call at approximately 2 a.m. from a crewmember aboard the fishing boat, reporting they were in thick fog, did not know where they were [...]
Coast Guard rescues 4 from overturned skiff
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., rescued four people from a capsized 22-foot skiff 10 miles southeast of the mouth of the Cape Fear River this morning.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received a call from the girlfriend of one of the passengers at 10:26 [...]