SAN PEDRO, Calif. – Coast Guard investigators continue to look into the circumstances of a collision that investigators believe occurred around just after midnight on Oct. 2.
After a large debris field was reported Thursday morning, the Coast Guard opened a marine casualty investigation. Since the initial report, investigators have been on the water and [...]
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Investigation Into San Pedro Collision Continues
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Boaters off San Pedro
SAN PEDRO – After a two-day search that covered more than 300 square miles south of the entrance to the Port of Los Angeles, the Coast Guard has suspended its efforts to find the missing boaters.
Responders recovered pieces of debris of an accident that likely happened shortly after midnight on October 2. Henry Sanchez, [...]
Coast Guard medevacs man from oil rig
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 24-year-old man from an oil rig 42-miles southwest of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico Friday.
Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans launched a HH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew after receiving areport that a man was in need of medevac after sustaining injuries from approximately a [...]
Coast Guard announces administrative law process improvements
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday two improvements made to the administrative law process that provide a toll-free call center at the administrative law judge docketing center and greater access to hearing transcripts.
The administrative law judge docketing center created a toll-free call center to assist parties in filing documents and understanding the process [...]
Ship Owner, Manager and Chief Engineer Indicted for Covering Up Pollution
Boston, MA (DOJ) – Two foreign companies that own and operate an oceangoing chemical tanker named M/T Nautilus (IMO No. 9150767), together with the ship’s Chief Engineer, were indicted today in federal court for covering up discharges of oil-contaminated waste at sea.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Rear Admiral Dale G. Gabel, United States [...]
Coast Guard Rescues 4 From Life Raft in the Gulf of Mexico
CLEARWATER, Fla. – The Coast Guard rescued four fishermen from a life raft at about 7:40 a.m. Friday after their 32-foot commercial-fishing vessel began taking on water and sunk 32-nautical miles west of Clearwater, Fla.
Capt. Darren Stanwood, 44, of Orlando, Fla., Tom Hunter, 46, of Zephyrhills, Fla., Dennis Grimm, 53, of Madeira Beach, Fla., and [...]
Coast Guard Continues Search off San Pedro
SAN PEDRO – The search continues this morning for survivors of a potential boating accident Thursday about five miles south of the Port of Los Angeles. Clear weather today allows for good search conditions.
Two Coast Guard Station Los Angeles-Long Beach boats, Air Station Los Angeles, Coast Guard Cutter Narwhal and Baywatch Cabrillo and Redondo [...]