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Coast Guard and Charleston industry to practice pollution recovery

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Coast Guard and industry partners will conduct a pollution-recovery exercise on the Cooper River Thursday at 9 a.m.

Sector Charleston names 2009 active duty and reserve Enlisted Person’s of the Year

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Coast Guard Sector Charleston has selected two Guardians as the 2009 active duty and reserve Enlisted Person’s of the Year. Petty Officer 3rd Class Gary Barnum was selected as the Active Duty Enlisted Person of the Year and Petty Officer 1st Class Lawrence Clark the Reserve Enlisted Person of the Year.

Coast Guard medically evacuates fisherman 65-miles east of Georgetown, South Carolina

GEORGETOWN, S.C. – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 54-year-old man Friday from a 41-foot commercial fishing vessel 65-miles east of Georgetown.

Coast Guard rescues man from sandbar

CHARLESTON, S.C. – A Coast Guard aircrew rescued a man from the ocean Saturday at approximately 8:00 p.m. after becoming trapped on a sandbar approximately 30 yards off Kiawah Island, S.C.

Coast Guard boat and commercial catamaran collide

CHARLESTON, S.C. – A 25-foot Coast Guard small boat and the Thriller, a 43-passanger power catamaran, collided in Charleston Harbor Saturday at approximately 8:21 p.m.

Coast Guard conducting new boat-tactics training

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Coast Guard Sector Charleston personnel are hosting a five-day pilot program of the approved Exclusionary Zone Enforcement Course at Sector Charleston’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center through Friday.

Coast Guard completes oil spill clean-up in Charleston area

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard and partner agency personnel completed oil spill clean-up and assessments on Charleston area beaches Friday.