SEATTLE – The Coast Guard rescued four boogieboarders from a cliff near Newport, Ore., Saturday.
Coast Guard Air Facility North Bend, Ore., received a report of two male and two female boogieboarders trapped on a cliff near Devil’s Punchbowl State Park.
Eighteen foot seas and 15 knot winds made it dangerous for the boogieboarders to paddle to [...]
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Coast Guard rescues boogieboarders from a cliff in Oregon
Gusty weather on Saturday keeps Pacific Northwest Coast Guard busy
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard and other local maritime assets including North Whidbey Fire and Rescue, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, and Camano Fire and Rescue responded to multiple incidents in the Puget Sound area brought on by Saturday’s gusty weather.
The Coast Guard Sector Seattle Command Center received reports of boats going adrift and overturning [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Two Men from Dangerous Surf
MCKINLEYVILLE, Calif. – The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a helicopter rescue of two men approximately one mile north of the Shelter Cove Airport. The men were on Black Sands Beach when they were swept out into the harrowing 20-25 foot surf. A friend accompanying the men immediately called 911.
The two men were quickly pulled out [...]
Coast Guard Air Station Savannah rescues pilot and dog from crashed Cessna
SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Coast Guard rescued a pilot and dog from a downed single-engine aircraft in a marshy area 10-miles southeast of Hunter Army Airfield Saturday at noon.
Eugenia Singer of Princeton, N.J. and her dog were flying in a Cessna 210 aircraft when it started to lose altitude. Coast Guard Air Station Savannah was [...]
Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman
NEW ORLEANS- The Coast Guard medevaced an injured crewman off a shrimping vessel about 60-miles southwest of Lafayette on Saturday.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans received a call at approximately 5 a.m., from Sector New Orleans, reporting that a crewmember working on a shrimping vessel had been injured and that a log [...]