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Video – Coast Guard Station Milwaukee Response Boat Medium

Coast Guard Station Milwaukee’s 45-foot Response Boat Medium.

Oyster Bay Mayday Might Have Been A Hoax

NEW YORK-A mayday call prompting a multi-agency rescue response by sea and air is now believed to be a hoax.
The Coast Guard, Suffolk County Police Department and Nassau County Police Department saturated the area near Centre Island, N.Y., after receiving a mayday from a man who said his vessel was taking on water and was [...]

Multi-agency response to fuel spill continues

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, and the North Charleston Fire Department continue to oversee clean-up efforts of the fuel tanker truck spill on Virginia Avenue in North Charleston Wednesday afternoon.

Coast Guard crewmembers conduct aids to navigation work in American Samoa

ABOARD U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER WALNUT — The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Walnut is scheduled to begin routine maintenance to aids to navigation in American Samoa Tuesday.
The Walnut’s crew will work on the islands of Ta’u and Ofu Tuesday and will provide annual maintenance to fixed and floating aids in the port of [...]

Pittsburgh Coast Guard unit receives top readiness award

PITTSBURGH – The Boat Forces Team from Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh was recently awarded the prestigious Sumner I. Kimball Readiness Award.
The team received 46 points out of a possible 50 on a standardization inspection conducted by a team of specialists from Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, Va.

Coast Guard transports ill man from fishing boat

CLEVELAND – U.S Coast Guard Station Marblehead medically evacuated a 64-year-old male experiencing symptoms of faint from a 70-foot fishing vessel just east of Pelee Island at approximately 9:45 a.m. Wednesday.
“He was having shortness of breath, looked kind of clammy — so we took him in,” said Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Christopher Channels.

Coast Guard repatriates 70 Dominicans to La Romana, Dominican Republic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo repatriated 70 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic Wednesday morning, while 20 others were detained for prosecution following an at-sea interdiction by Coast Guard law enforcement authorities Tuesday.
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Chincoteague located and interdicted a migrant yola Tuesday [...]