SAN PEDRO, Calif. -In light of recent near misses and the start of the 2009 boating season, the Coast Guard will be increasing the enforcement of small vessel navigation rules. There have been several recent near misses in and around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which were the direct result of [...]
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Men in blue lead the efforts to go green
HONOLULU — Even as the U.S. celebrated Earth Day April 22, at least one U.S. Coast Guard base had already been finding new ways to green the service.
Capt. John Hickey, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Integrated Support Command (ISC), Honolulu, and his crew are leading the way in the ‘Go Green’ initiative in the [...]
Coast Guard responds to distress, Good Samaritan rescues 6
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.– The Coast Guard responded a distress call from a 26-foot boat sinking 90 miles east of Jacksonville with six people aboard Thursday morning.
Coast Guard teams up to clean up Milwaukee beaches
MILWAUKEE — Coast Guard members based in Milwaukee worked to clean up of five local beaches stretching from the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to South Shore Park, Wednesday, to promote Earth Day consciousness.
Coast Guard medevacs injured shrimp fisherman
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 51-year old male from a shrimp boat 40 miles south of Point Au Fer Island, La., in the Gulf of Mexico today.
Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley temporarily opens river closure
HUNTINGTON, W.Va – The Captain of the Port for Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley has temporarily reopened the Ohio River in the vicinity near the Pomeroy Bridge demolition and salvage operations today.
Newport Coast Guard cutter hosts cultural exchange program
NEWPORT, R.I. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Willow, homeported here, hosted 77 Latin American and Chinese high school students aboard the cutter Wednesday.
The students were from the Pro American Educational and Cultural Exchange Program, an organization that promotes international good will through foreign exchange programs.