SEATTLE – The Coast Guard along with the several other local, state and federal agencies and Argosy Cruises will stage an emergency Functional Exercise (FE) response drill Wednesday at Pier 66 in downtown Seattle.
The FE will commence at 8:30 a.m. and will conclude at 12 p.m. Members of the Unified Command will be available for [...]
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Multiple agencies come together for maritime rescue operation drill
Coast Guard to conduct tsunami drill
SEATTLE – Crews from Coast Guard Group/Air Station North Bend, Ore., will be conducting a tsunami response drill Wednesday in Coos Bay, Ore.
The exercise allows crews to practice evacuating the station in the event of tsunami. A crew will relocate an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to a baseball field at Southwest Oregon Community College, located at [...]
Visit to Deployed Cutter Underscores Coast Guard’s Global Reach
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
ROTA, Spain – Civilian leaders who visited here today had seen the Coast Guard in action in U.S. waterways, patrolling ports and harbors, interdicting drug smugglers, and sometimes conducting heroic search-and-rescue missions as depicted in the movie, “The Guardian.”
So Coast Guard Capt. Robert Wagner, commander of Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, [...]
Coast Guard searching for missing swimmer
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Coast Guard is conducting a search for a 34-year-old man, Larry Tate, who was reported missing off mile marker 61 on Mustang Island 250 yards offshore in the Gulf of Mexico at 9:20 this morning.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 9:50 a.m. from Mr. [...]
Coast Guard continues restrictions on Mississippi and Illinois rivers
ST. LOUIS – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port at Sector Upper Mississippi continues waterway restrictions for the Mississippi and Illinois rivers due to high water levels Monday, Sept., 22, 2008.
Restrictions for the Illinois and Mississippi rivers are listed below:
The Illinois River is closed to recreational vessel traffic near Montezuma, Ill., from mile marker [...]
Coast Guard responds to diesel spill in Norfolk, Va.
NORFOLK, Va. – The Coast Guard is responding to a diesel spill in the Elizabeth River near downtown Norfolk today from the moored research vessel, Lake Explorer II, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Marine Operation Base.
The captain of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 90-foot vessel notified the National Response Center and Coast [...]
Three People Rescued South of Branford, Connecticut
NEW YORK – Three East Haven, Conn., natives were rescued after their vessel became disabled south of Brandford, Conn. around 6 a.m. today.
The mariners in the adrift vessel had been missing for near six and a half hours before they were located near the Thimble Islands. A concerned relative contacted Sea Tow after they failed [...]