Posts Tagged ‘Cutter Decisive’
Coast Guard repatriates 41 Dominicans to La Romana, Dominican Republic
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Sapelo repatriated 41 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic Thursday morning, while 16 others were detained for prosecution following an at-sea interdiction by Coast Guard law enforcement authorities Tuesday.
Coast Guard repatriates 57 back to Haiti
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive repatriated 52 Haitian migrants and five Indian nationals to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Friday.
Decisive crewmembers located an overloaded 30-foot sail freighter approximately 30 miles south of Great Inagua, Bahamas, Thursday. The crew launched two small boats and distributed life jackets before safely embarking everyone aboard the overloaded vessel without incident.
Coast Guard Searching for Mother and Son Lost At Sea
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary and Puerto Rico Police rescue crews continue searching Sunday for a mother and son who are overdue since Thursday from a recreational boating trip in waters west of Puerto Rico.
Jo Ann Anderson, 65, and Brent Folgner, 39, U.S. natives residing in Rincon, Puerto Rico are missing after they were expected to return from a recreational boating trip Thursday afternoon, but the mother and son never returned.
Coast Guard controllers in the Sector San Juan Joint Rescue Sub Center were initially contacted Friday afternoon by Ashley Gatlin, Folgner’s girlfriend, who reported that she had not heard from her boyfriend after he had departed with Anderson Thursday morning from Black Eagle Marina Rincon, Puerto Rico. The boaters departed aboard the Agua Azul, a recreational 18-foot-white and red Fountain 1978 powerboat with a black canopy and powered by a 135-horsepower Mercury outboard engine. Puerto Rico Police authorities confirmed that Folgner’s vehicle and boat trailer remained parked at Black Eagle Marina.
Coast Guard rescue crews have been aggressively searching since Friday for the two missing boaters with HH-65 Dolphin helicopters from Air Station Borinquen, Aguadilla, a HU-25 Falcon Jet from Air Station Miami, an HC-130 aircraft from Air Station Clearwater, Fla., Coast Guard Cutter Decisive, and a Coast Guard Auxiliary fixed-wing aircraft. Since the search began Friday, Puerto Rico Police rescue crews aboard Cobra marine units have joined the search efforts to find Anderson and Folgner. So far, Coast Guard rescue crews have conducted 18 searches spanning over 26,898 nautical square miles.
Coast Guard Cutter Decisive is a medium-endurance cutter homeported at Singing River Island in Pascagoula.