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Posts on ‘January 7th, 2009’

Sector San Diego Prepares to Assist Pacific Northwest in Approaching Storm

SAN DIEGO – U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego is preparing to send one of its MH-60J Jayhawk helicopters to Air Station San Francisco to assist as a major storm approaches the Pacific Northwest.

Coast Guard medevacs 24-year-old male from tanker off Galveston coast

HOUSTON – The Coast Guard medevaced a 24-year-old male off the tanker SR Wilmington, 12-nautical miles south of Galveston, Wednesday.

Coast Guard gets civilian assist with flare sighting

SEATTLE – The Citizen’s Action Network (CAN) assisted with the Coast Guard’s response to a disabled vessel in Budd Inlet near Olympia, Wash., Sunday.

Mayport Coast Guard unit to adopt Jacksonville road

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Coast Guard Electronic Support Detachment Mayport, Fla., will officially adopt a one mile stretch of Central Parkway at a ceremony Thursday.

Threat against Ketchikan fuel facility deemed non-credible

JUNEAU, Alaska — Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have determined this morning’s threat against the Petro Marine fuel facility in Ketchikan, Alaska, to be non-credible.

Coast Guard suspends search for crab fisherman that fell into the Bering Sea

JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday at 11:49 a.m. for Keith Criner, 43, resident of Stockton, Calif., after he became tangled in a crab pot line and fell from the 98-foot fishing vessel Seabrooke approximately 22 miles northwest of Cold Bay, Alaska, at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday.

Coast Guard repatriates 63 Cuban migrants

MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur repatriated 63 Cuban migrants, from four seperate interdictions at sea within the past six days, to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Wednesday.