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Posts on ‘March 2nd, 2009’

Coast Guard continues search for three missing boaters

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Coast Guard continues its search for three of four missing boaters who went missing about 50 miles west of Clearwater Pass Saturday.

Coast Guard cutter Healy to depart for Arctic West Deployment

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard cutter Healy is scheduled to depart its homeport here Wednesday for the three-month Arctic West 2009 deployment.

Coast Guard boards vessel believed to be fishing illegally in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

HONOLULU — U.S. Coast Guardsmen aboard a buoy tender and a C-130 long-range aircraft from Honolulu documented the crew of a vessel believed to be illegally fishing in the protected waters of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument this past weekend.

Coast Guard Rescues Missing Boater, Continues Search for Three Others

By John J. Kruzel, American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard today rescued a boater whose vessel capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, and continues a high-profile search and rescue mission for three others who were onboard.

Photo – Coast Guard rescues missing boater off Clearwater

Miami – Crewmembers from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., and the Coast Guard Cutter Tornado rescue Nick Schuyler from an overturned vessel 35 miles west of Tampa Bay, Fla., Monday, March 2, 2009.

Coast Guard Cutter Tybee towing disabled New Bedford fishing boat

BOSTON – The  110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Tybee is towing a New Bedford, Mass., fishing boat after it became disabled approximately 30 miles east of Nantucket, Mass., early this morning.

Coast Guard Interdicts 22 Migrants Northwest of Border with Mexico

SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard intercepted 22 people just northwest of the U.S./Mexican border who are suspected of attempting to enter the country illegally early this morning.