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Posts on ‘August 18th, 2009’

Coast Guard medevacs diver southeast of Ocracoke

OCRACOKE, N.C. – Coast Guard rescue helicopter and boat crews medevaced a 50-year-old man after a dive accident approximately 15 miles southeast of Ocracoke Tuesday.

Coast Guard suspends search for missing boater

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a boater missing since Sunday near Shell Island approximately 5 miles south west of Panama City, Fla.

Coast Guard and Marine Corps medevac man from fishing boat in Pamlico Sound

HOBUCKEN, N.C. – A Coast Guard rescue boat crew from Station Hobucken and a Marine Corps rescue helicopter crew medevaced a man suffering from chest pains while sailing on a fishing vessel in the southern Pamlico Sound Tuesday.

Coast Guard presents certificates of valor

SEATTLE — Capt. Suzanne Englebert, Coast Guard Captain of the Port, presented certificates of valor to Bruce Johnson and Stevie Kokita at the Des Moines, Wash., city counsel meeting Thursday.

Cutter Healy conducts Arctic continental shelf research

ARCTIC OCEAN – A Coast Guard Cutter Healy boatcrew along with a scientist from Scripps Institution of Oceanography recovered a sonobuoy, Aug. 8, 2009, while on a scientific research mission in the Arctic Ocean.

Fisherman medevaced from boat 135 miles offshore

BOSTON — The Coast Guard airlifted a 51-year-old man experiencing heart-attack symptoms from a fishing boat 135 miles east of Provincetown, Mass. today.

Coast Guard and agency partner continue clean-up efforts around sunk tug

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Coast Guard and California Fish and Game’s Office of Spill Pervention and Response continue the investigation and oversight of clean-up efforts after the decommissioned naval tug, the USS Wenonah, sunk at Pier 1 on Treasure Island, here.