Honolulu – Over 2,000 people gathered at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point on Friday Sep 12th for a memorial service for the crewmen of the Coast Guard HH-65C helicopter that crashed off Honolulu on September 4
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Coast Guard searches for missing man
CORPUS Christi, Texas – The Coast Guard is conducting a search for a 19-year-old man who was reported missing off the Packery Channel jetties this evening.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 3:42 p.m. from the Corpus Christi Police Department, reporting that a group of four people were knocked off [...]
Coast Guard Monitoring Grounded Tug and Barge on Hudson River
NEW YORK-The Coast Guard is monitoring a grounded tug and barge about 15 miles south of Albany on the Hudson River today.
The 114-foot tug Tasman Sea was pushing the 320-foot fuel barge DBL 81 north on the river when they ran aground at about 3:50 p.m.
The DBL 81 does not have any fuel on board, [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Two, Responds to Distress Flare
JUNEAU, Alaska – A MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew rescued two people from a 17-foot boat that was taking on water in the vicinity of Cook Inlet near the town of Kenai at approximately 5:45 p.m. today.
The Soldotna police department relayed a 9-1-1 call to the Seventeenth Coast Guard District command center in Juneau. Sector Anchorage [...]
Petersburg Man Missing, Coast Guard Finds Vessel Aground
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard Sector Juneau received a report at 11:30 a.m. today that a 52 year-old commercial fisherman from Petersburg, Alaska was overdue after he did not return from a halibut fishing trip Thursday.
At 11:50 a.m. a Coast Guard rescue crew from Air Station Sitka out on a routine patrol located the missing [...]
Coast Guard rescues more than 65, prepares for aftermath of Hurricane Ike
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued more than 65 people and several animals Friday while continuing to prepare for post-hurricane operations as Hurricane Ike approached the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Coast Guard helicopters rescued more than 65 people stranded on Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston, Texas, as storm surge waters flooded the area. Coast Guard and [...]