by Chief Mass Communication Specialist (SW) Ray Mooney
Fleet Public Affairs Center Pacific
HONG KONG — Search and rescue units from the U.S. Coast Guard District 14 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons in Anchorage arrived here last week to work with SAR teams from Hong Kong’s Government Flying [...]
Posts on ‘October 28th, 2008’
Coast Guard Participates in Hong Kong Exercise
Coast Guard Searching for Missing Kayaker near Darien
NEW YORK – A search is underway for a missing kayaker near Darien, Conn., after he did not return from a trip which began at approximately 3 p.m. today.
Search Suspended for Missing Maine Lobsterman
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – The Coast Guard suspended its search at about 6 p.m., today for a Maine lobsterman last seen about noon Monday in a 21-foot skiff near Zephyr Ledges, Maine.
Chris Whittaker, 24, left Matinicus Island, Maine, at about 8:45 Monday morning and was expected to return by 2 p.m. His sister contacted Coast [...]
Fishing Vessel Katmai Investigation Continues
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Marine Board of Investigation that is investigating into the cause of the sinking of the fishing vessel Katmai hear testimony for the second day October 28.
Survivors Harold “Ryan” Appling and Guy Shroder both testified about the events that led to vessel’s sinking and the loss of seven other shipmates. The [...]
Coast Guard WWII Photographer Passes Away
Los Angeles – Delmar Watson, a child actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and later, along with three of his brothers was a Coast Guard photographer in World War II, has died at the age of 82. After the war, Watson and his six brothers all worked as photographers for newspapers, television or [...]
Cutter returns to Key West with more than 5,000 pounds of Cocaine
KEY WEST, Fla. – The Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returned home Monday after a 36-day law enforcement patrol in the Eastern Pacific highlighted with a 5,511-pound cocaine seizure.
Coast Guard crew Rescues 2 off Battery Island, N.C.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard rescued two people Monday who were reported overdue off the North Carolina coast.