SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard rescue crews continue searching Tuesday for 10 Haitian migrants in British Virgin Islands waters, after their vessel collided with shoal water Monday evening and broke apart throwing all the passengers on board into the water.
Posts on ‘January 20th, 2009’
Coast Guard will no longer monitor 121.5/243MHz emergency beacons
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Beginning Feb. 1 the Coast Guard and other search-and-rescue personnel will only monitor and receive distress alert broadcasts using digital 406 MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB).
Coast Guard Imposes Restrictions on Vessels that Visit Venezuela
Washington – The Coast Guard has determined that vessels that ports in Venezuela are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures and effective January 23, the Coast Guard will impose the following conditions of entry on vessels that visited ports in Venezuela during their last five port calls.
Vessels must:
Implement measures per the ship’s security plan equivalent [...]
Coast Guard issues Administrative Order for vessel aground
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard will issue an Administrative Order to the owner of the 40-foot sailing vessel Gwalchavad that ran aground on Sand Island, Ore., January 13 directing him to remove the vessel.
Monarch response continues, incident command post demobilizing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sonar capabilities are being staged on the Granite Point oil platform today in Cook Inlet to monitor the offshore supply vessel Monarch that remains submerged just south of the platform.
Coast Guard, multiple agencies provide maritime security for Presidential Inauguration
by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lindberg
Curled up on cots in a green canvas tent lay six men. Still wearing their dry suits, their faces are still flushed pink from the cold air as they close their eyes and try to get some rest while the bitter wind is rifling the walls of their makeshift [...]
Cargo ship re-floated near Baltimore
BALTIMORE – The 800-foot bulk carrier CSL Argosy that was aground in Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore re-floated at approximately 10 p.m. Monday.