NEW YORK-Coast Guard Sector New York personnel are overseeing the cleanup of approximately 200 gallons of number 3-diesel fuel that spilled into the water in Mariners Harbor, N.Y., on Friday.
Posts on ‘June 5th, 2009’
WWII Coast Guard veteran returns to Normandy
Normandy – On Thursday, Coast Guard veteran Tommy Harbour returned to the site where he made three trips in PA33-4 delivering troops and equipment during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. Harbour was a Coast Guard coxswain mate, whose vehicle and personnel landing craft (LCVP), also known as a Higgins boat, transported soldiers to [...]
Coast Guard crews participate in oil spill exercise near Keehi Lagoon
HONOLULU — U.S. Coast Guard crews from around the country participated in the first ever joint Boom Deployment Course here Friday near Keehi Lagoon.
Channel Islands Coast Guard responds to vessel taking on water
OXNARD, Calif. — Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a radio call shortly after 3:30 p.m. from a 48-foot recreational boat reporting they were taking on water a 1/2 mile south of Point Mugu Friday.
Coast Guard rescues four people from sinking boat off Mayport
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Coast Guard rescued four people from a sinking 22-foot vessel approximately 10-miles off the coast of Jacksonville Friday.
Rescued are Duane Alann Furgason, 47, Kevin Furgason, 15, John Banar, 33, and Mason Penblepon, 27.
Coast Guard suspends search for missing boaters
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard has suspended the search for two people who are missing after their boat capsized in northern Chuckanut Bay near Bellingham, Wash., Friday.
Indiana man pleads guilty to search and rescue hoax
NEW ORLEANS — Marcus Schrenker, 38, of McCordsville, Indiana pled guilty today in the Northern District of Florida of making a fake distress call and intentionally crashing a plane. The U.S. Coast Guard had Schrenker indicted on Jan. 14, 2009 with communicating a false distress message and willfully destroying or wrecking an aircraft. Special [...]