ALAMEDA, Calif. – A Good Samaritan rescued four people from the water today after their 14-foot pleasure craft capsized two nautical miles southwest of the Richmond Marina.
The U.S. Coast Guard received a distress call from a Good Samaritan at 11:38 a.m., who witnessed a 14-foot pleasure craft capsize with two adults and two children on [...]
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Good Samaritan Rescues Four Near Richmond Marine
Coast Guard airlifts sick crewmember 65 miles South of Nantucket
BOSTON- A Coast Guard aircrew helped an ill fisherman aboard Newport, R.I.,-based vessel today about 65 miles south of Nantucket, Mass.
Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England received a call from Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Canada, reporting the fishing vessel Hedy Brenna had called for help by HF radio around 2 p.m., for one [...]
Coast Guard repatriates 22 Dominicans, Detains 10 others for Prosecution
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard cutter personnel and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered 32 Dominicans traveling illegally from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico aboard a migrant boat Saturday night.
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo repatriated 22 of the Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic Sunday, following an [...]
Coast Guard suspends search for 2 Dominican Republic fishermen
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard rescue crews suspended their search Sunday for two overdue Dominican Republic fishermen missing since Friday, after fishing in the Silver Banks, approximately 50 nautical miles north of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Luis Antonio Cordero, 19, and Ciprian Helena Ulloa, 23, Dominican Republc nationals, are still missing after going [...]
Coast Guard Releases C4&IT Strategic Plan
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Coast Guard published today a strategic plan that will enhance and modernize Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Technology in support of mission execution.
The C4&IT Strategic Plan charts an ambitious path through the next five years by identifyiong goals, objectives and initiatives in the areas of information, technology, security, governance, and organizational [...]
Station Boothbay Harbor boat crew earns awards
PORTLAND, Maine – A boat crew from Coast Guard Station Boothbay Harbor received awards at the station last Thursday for their response to a fire July 11, 2008, at the Washburn and Doughty Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine.
Rear Adm. Dale G. Gabel, the commander of the First Coast Guard District, presented Petty Officer 2nd Class [...]
Coast Guard Learns What It Takes to Operate in Arctic
By Navy Lt. Jennifer Cragg
WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard is testing and compiling initial lessons learned from its ongoing Arctic operations, a senior officer said last week.
“It became obvious to me 18 months to two years ago that with the retreat of the multiyear polar sea ice, the Coast Guard was going to have to [...]