SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Ninth Coast Guard District will conduct an emergency break-out with one of its eight icebreakers along the ice bridges on the Lower West Neebish Channel at first light Thursday, March 19.
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Agencies respond to reported hydraulic spill in Puget Sound
SEATTLE — Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and the Washington State Maritime Cooperative (WSMC) are responding to a reported hydraulic fluid spill in Puget Sound around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Coast Guard searching for missing research vessel crewmember
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is searching for a crewmember who reportedly went missing today after the work boat he was aboard capsized approximately 30 miles south of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mar-Gun response ongoing, progress hampered by adverse weather
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Response efforts to lighter and recover the fishing vessel Mar-Gun from Staraya Beach on St. George Island are ongoing but progress has been delayed due to adverse weather conditions since Friday.
Coast Guard promotes safe 2009 Sitka Herring Sac Roe fishery
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is offering courtesy dockside examinations of commercial fishing vessels in Sitka, Alaska, in anticipation of the annual Herring Sac Roe fishery, which is slated to open later this month.
Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane to return home to Portsmouth on Wednesday
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane is scheduled to return to their homeport of Portsmouth, Va., Wednesday following a patrol in the Carribean Sea.