Posts Tagged ‘Air Station Corpus Christi’
Coast Guard medevacs man from cruise ship 180-miles off Galveston coast
HOUSTON - The Coast Guard medevaced a 52-year-old male off the Carnival cruise ship Conquest, approximately 180-miles southeast off the coast of Galveston, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.
Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane returns to Portsmouth, Va.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane is scheduled to return to their homeport of Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday following a 31-day patrol which included migrant interdiction operations and a community relations project in Nassau, Bahamas.
Coast Guard medevacs crewmember - With Video
Port O’Connor, Texas - A Coast Guard helicopter crew medevaced a 44-year-old man from a deck barge 7 miles east of the Matagorda Jetties early this afternoon.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 11:54 a.m. from an EMS company in Lake Charles, La. reporting a crewmember on board the deck barge Arapaho suffering from chest pains.
Air Station Corpus Christi launched an HH-65C rescue helicopter crew to assist. The rescue helicopter crew safely hoisted the man and an emergency medical technician off the barge and transported them to Citizen’s Memorial Hospital in Victoria.
The man was last reported to be in stable condition.
This was the first live hoist for pilot, Lt. j.g. William Haywood.
Video of the rescue is below.
Coast Guard searching for missing swimmer
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The Coast Guard is conducting a search for a 34-year-old man, Larry Tate, who was reported missing off mile marker 61 on Mustang Island 250 yards offshore in the Gulf of Mexico at 9:20 this morning.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 9:50 a.m. from Mr. Tate’s sister, reporting that she was on the beach and watched him go down while he was swimming.
An HH-65C Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Corpus Christi was launched to search the area. Station Port Aransas dispatched a rescue boat crew to assist in the search.
The Coast Guard plans to continue searching the area this evening and early tomorrow morning with aircraft and boats.
Anyone with information about the missing man is encouraged to contact the Coast Guard at (361) 939-6393.
Coast Guard suspends search for 19 -year-old man
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - After a two-day effort, the Coast Guard has suspended its active search today at 9 p.m. for Michael Moxley, the 19-year-old man who went missing south of the Packery Channel jetties late Friday afternoon.
Coast Guard crews searched more than 87 square miles, including overlapping searches, multiple shoreline searches, and nearby oil rigs, along the Padre Island coast and into the Gulf of Mexico.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a phone call at 5:42 p.m. Friday from the Corpus Christi Police Department reporting a group of four people were swept off the southern jetty of Packery Channel by a wave. Three people were recovered and the last person was unable to be located.
Coast Guard crews involved in the search included three HH-65C Dolphin helicopter crews from Air Station Corpus Christi, the crew of the cutter Steelhead from Station Port Aransas, and security patrol crews on the beach.
Coast Guard Launches First Response Assets after Hurricane Ike
KATY, Texas - The U.S. Coast Guard has launched its first air assets and crews into the areas hit by hurricane Ike, Saturday, Sept. 13.
The Coast Guard, in conjunction with the Texas Air National Guard, Texas Task Force 1, and the California Air National Guard, has rescued 103 people and nine pets to date.
Earlier this morning, assets and crews which had been prepositioned before the storm at the following locations were ordered into the area.
From Air Station Corpus Christi:
* five HH-65C helicopters
* one Falcon jet
From Air Stations New Orleans and Mobile:
* four HH-60s
* six HH-65s
The Coast Guard’s number one priority is search and rescue. The crew on board the Falcon jet will do a first post-storm overflight assessment and serve as command and control. Meanwhile, the helicopters are ready and prepared for search and rescue operations. The Coast Guard will focus on environmental protection and reopening the Port of Houston-Galveston as quickly as possible.
The Coast Guard is working with our federal, state and local partner agencies to respond to the effects of Hurricane Ike. “Every Coast Guardsman is dedicated to assisting people in distress, protecting the environment and opening the port as quickly as possible. This is an ‘All Hands on deck’ evolution,” said Capt. William Diehl, Sector Houston-Galveston Commander. “All emergency workers are trained, prepared and are actively engaged in this operation.”
Coast Guard continues search for missing man
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The Coast Guard is continuing its search for a missing man that was swept off the Packery Channel jetties yesterday evening.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 5:42 p.m. from the Corpus Christi Police Department, reporting a group of four people were swept off the sourthern jetty of Packery Channel by a wave.
An HH-65C Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Corpus Christi was launched last night and early this morning to search for the missing 19 year-old man.
The Coast Guard plans to continue searching the area this afternoon with a helicopter.
Anyone with information about the missing man is encouraged to contact the Coast Guard at (361) 939-6393.
Coast Guard searches for missing man
CORPUS Christi, Texas - The Coast Guard is conducting a search for a 19-year-old man who was reported missing off the Packery Channel jetties this evening.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a call at 3:42 p.m. from the Corpus Christi Police Department, reporting that a group of four people were knocked off the southern jetty of Packery Channel by a wave. Three people from the group were recovered by Good Samaritans and taken to EMS that were on scene.
An HH-65C Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Corpus Christi was launched to search for the last person of the group.
The Coast Guard plans to continue searching the area tomorrow morning.
Anyone with information about the missing man is encouraged to contact the Coast Guard at (361) 939-6393.