SEATTLE – The search for a 23-year-old man who was swept from a jetty near Newport, Ore., was suspended at 5:47 p.m. Sunday.
Members of the Coast Guard, Oregon State Police and Newport Fire Department scoured the area by foot, boat and helicopter for six hours before suspending the search.
“Searchers looked for this man [...]
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Search suspended for missing man near Newport, Oregon jetty
Search on for man swept from Newport, Oregon jetty
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, Newport Fire Department and Oregon State Police are searching for a 23-year-old man who was swept from a jetty in Newport, Ore., Sunday.
A 47-foot motor lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Newport was escorting a vessel into Newport harbor with a sick passenger on board at 10:42 a.m when they [...]
Coast Guard investigating cause of Mississippi River oil spill
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Service are coordinating efforts to investigate and clean up an oil spill found 30 miles west of New Orleans on the Mississippi River at approximately mile marker 135 Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received the report at approximately 3:30 a.m., today that [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Man After Vessel Collision
Clearwater, Fla. – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 75-year-old man suffering from lacerations to his arms at about 12 p.m., Sunday, after his catamaran and a commercial-fishing vessel collided about 10-miles south west of Cedar Key, Fla.
Richard Ehlers, of Sarasota, Fla., and his wife were aboard their 44-foot catamaran Dream On when it collided [...]