SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, recognized the rescue efforts of aircrew members from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, presenting them with the Secretary’s Award for Valor at an award ceremony Nov. 20, 2008.
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Coast Guard spotlights crab fishing safety as season approaches
SEATTLE — Thirteenth Coast Guard District personnel will conduct vessel safety spot checks and voluntary dockside exams in various Northwest ports Nov. 24-26 just prior to the opening of the Ore. and Wash. State Dungeness Crab fishery.
Coast Guard uncovers violations in first round of towboat inspections
Jen DeGregorio of the The Times-Picayune reports in New Orleans Local & Small Business News that
A fledgling Coast Guard inspection program meant to crack down on the towboat and barge industry has already uncovered several licensing problems aboard vessels traveling through New Orleans.
Dubbed Operation Big Tow, the program aims to better regulate mariners in the [...]
Coast Guard Awards Contract to Purchase Three Additional HC-144A Aircraft
Washington – The Coast Guard awarded a firm-fixed-price Delivery/Task Order to Integrated Coast Guard Systems on November 17, 2008, to purchase three HC-144A “Ocean Sentry” Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) at a total cost of $150,517,167.00. These MPAs—our ninth, tenth, and eleventh HC-144As–will be built at the EADS CASA construction facility in Seville, Spain. The delivery [...]
Coast Guard rescues 4 from grounded vessel
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard rescued four men from their grounded vessel near the Chandeleur Island chain 27-miles south of Gulfport, Miss. today.
Injured Boater Transported to EMS by Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard rescue boat crew from Station Elizabeth City, N.C., transferred an injured boater from the North River along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Friday.
Watch standers at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina were contacted by Currituck County 911, at 11:41 a.m., reporting that Robert Rack, 63, was unable to operate his vessel [...]