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Posts on ‘June 29th, 2009’

Coast Guard searching for Alaskan in Clarence Strait

JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is searching for a 24-year-old male after his powered canoe was located by a good Samaritan 32 miles west of Wrangell in Clarence Strait at 10:15 a.m. Monday.

Coast Guard and local agencies respond to report of missing child

MOSS BEACH, Calif – The U.S. Coast Guard and local agencies responded to the report of a 5 year old girl who disappeared while swimming with her parents at Montera State Beach this afternoon.

Port Security Unit 311 to return home from Kuwait

SAN PEDRO, Calif. — Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311, located in San Pedro, Calif., will be welcomed home by family and friends during a short ceremony Wednesday after a seven-month deployment to Kuwait.

Coast Guard medevacs crewmember from bulk carrier

MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember from a bulk cargo carrier approximately 60 miles south of Mobile in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday.

Coast Guard assists sailing vessel in distress

CLEVELAND – The U.S. Coast Guard assisted a sailing vessel that was lodged against a rock wall at Edgewater Park, here, at approximately 4:40 p.m., Monday.

Long Island Sound law enforcement surge aims to promote safe boating

NEW HAVEN, CONN.–Multiple first-response agencies from Connecticut and Long Island completed their second summer weekend surge operation in an ongoing effort to educate the boating public and enforce recreational boating safety laws with particular attention to boating under the influence (BUI) as part of Operation Sector Aggressive Vessel Enforcement Sunday, June 28.

Coast Guard locates missing boy at Bayocean Peninsula

ASTORIA, Ore. — The Coast Guard located a missing boy at Bayocean Peninsula near Garibaldi, Ore., Monday.