MIAMI – Coast Guard Sector Miami suspended its search efforts for six missing people off Port St. Lucie Inlet in Port St. Lucie, Fla., Wednesday at noon.
Crews aboard 33-foot Special Purpose-Law Enforcement Crafts from Station Fort Pierce, Fla. and Lake Worth Inlet, Fla., a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat from Coast Station Fort Pierce and a HH-65 [...]
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Coast Guard suspends search for 6 missing people off Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Coast Guard Warns of Risk of Conflict in the Arctic
The BBC News reports from a Cost Guard C-130 about the risk of conflict over the expanding Arctic region. Includes an interview with RADM Brooks of the 17th Coast Guard District.
H/T to An Aztec Guardian for the story.
Coast Guard Rescues Two From Plane Crash
SAN FRANCISCO – The Coast Guard rescued two people involved in a plane crash, today.
At approximately 2 p.m., Coast Guard Sector San Francisco received a report of a plane crash in the shallow area of the San Francisco Bay near the Bay Bridge toll plaza. An HH-65 “Dolphin” Helicopter immediately launched from Coast Guard [...]
Coast Guard Monitoring Oil Spill in Passaic River
NEW YORK-The Coast Guard is monitoring the cleanup of approximately 500 gallons of tallow oil in the water four miles north of the entrance to the Passaic River near Harrison, N.J., today.
A manager at the Innovation Fuels Facility reported the spill to the National Response Center (NRC) at about 1:45 p.m. after a transfer line [...]
What it Means to be a Guardian
JUNEAU, Alaska — The definition of “guardian” is one who guards, watches over, or protects. For the guardians of the U.S. Coast Guard, being a guardian takes several forms. A guardian could be a Coast Guard Auxiliary member confined to a wheel chair but able to maintain radio guard for a 41- foot Coast Guard [...]
Coast Guard coordinates search for missing boater near Camp Lejeune
ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. – The Coast Guard is searching the New River near Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune N.C., after receiving a report of a missing boater Wednesday morning.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina were contacted by Camp Lejeune Fire Department requesting assistance in locating a missing boater after finding an unmanned 15-foot boat [...]
Cutter Crosses Arctic Circle on Anniversary of Northwest Passage
By Petty Officer 1st Class Kurt Fredrickson
KODIAK, Alaska – In 1865 the first U.S. Light House Service tender reached the shores of Russian Alaska and sparked the beginning of what has been more than 145 years of Coast Guard history in the Bering Sea. While the wooden ships of the Light House and Revenue [...]