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Posts on ‘November 8th, 2008’

Coast Guard delivers blood to cruise ship passenger

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard helicopter crew transported blood to a cruise ship passenger 105 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., Saturday.

Coast Guard, Navy assist disabled vessel

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard and Navy are assisting a disabled vessel with one person onboard 155 miles east of Wachapreague, Va.

Coast Guard medevacs 2 sailors from USS Dwight Eisenhower

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard medevaced two sailors from a Navy ship 46 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., Saturday.

Coast Guard partners hold safety workshop for local fishermen

by Seaman Sabrina Elgammal
More than 30 commercial fishermen spent the day in New Bedford, Mass., learning vital safety and survival techniques during the Fishing Vessel Safety Training Seminar at the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology Friday.
Coast Guard Fishing Vessel Safety Examiners, the School for Marine Science and Technology, New Directions Southcoast, [...]

Coast Guard responds to grounded crewboat

NEW ORLEANS -The Coast Guard is responding to a grounded crewboat that was reported to be taking on water approximately 8-miles south of South Pass in the Gulf of Mexico, Friday Nov. 7. 2008.

Disabled New Bedford boat towed to safety

BOSTON- The Coast Guard is towing a New Bedford-based fishing vessel after the boat lost propulsion about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, Mass., around 7:30 a.m. Friday.