Coast Guard Cutter Dallas Crew Paints Colombian School
CARIBBEAN SEA – Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas and the Colombian coast guard worked together to repaint a school in Cartagena, La Institucion Educativa Salim Bechara.
The school serves 300 students from the local community and two neighboring barrios. The two coast guards, allies in the drug war at sea, worked together to paint eight classrooms, the entire perimeter of the school, courtyard,...
Coast Guard medevacs man from sailboat
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard medevaced a 67-year old male off of a sailboat near Yaquina Head, Ore., today.
Coast Guard Group North Bend received a call that a man aboard a 34-foot sailboat was in medical distress and needed to be airlifted to a nearby hospital.
A Coast Guard 47-foot motor lifeboat crew from Station Depoe Bay, Ore., and an HH-65C Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Facility...
Coast Guard Investigating Vessel Collision on Ohio River
MEADE COUNTY, KY- At just after 7 PM, Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley received a report from the towing vessel CHARLES E. MARTIN that its tow had collided with a 17-foot recreational boat. The incident occurred near Ohio River mile 638.
Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley, Meade County EMS, and Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources responded. The operator and passenger of the recreational...
Coast Guard’s tasks grow with Arctic traffic – USATODAY.com
Interesting article on USATODAY.com By Barbara Slavin
WASHINGTON — When the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard thinks of future trouble spots, his focus is increasingly to the north — the vast waters around a melting polar ice cap.
Once almost totally inaccessible to shipping and oil drilling, the region poses new opportunities for economic activity, as well as new challenges for those...
Coast Guard Restricts Towing Vessel from Operations
MIAMI – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Miami, Capt. Karl L. Schultz, issued a Captain of the Port Order to the towing vessel Megan Garrett Friday, restricting the vessel from operation until conditions of the order are met.
Coast Guard Sector Miami received a report of a marine casualty in the vicinity of the Hallandale Beach Bridge involving the Megan Garrett. Sector Miami investigating...
Coast Guard Medevacs Man From Ambrose Channel
NEW YORK – A man reporting symptoms of a heart attack was medevaced from an Army research vessel in the Ambrose Channel by a Coast Guard rescue crew at approximately 12:43 p.m. today.
William Carm, 45, was working aboard the 273-foot Army research vessel Frank S. Abyss, when he reported symptoms of a heart attack. The crew placed a distress call to the Coast Guard at approximately 12:23 p.m.
A...
Coast Guard Rescues 3 Fishermen
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard Cutter Yellowfin rescued three men on disabled a 28-foot fishing boat 41 miles southeast of Charleston Monday at approximately 1 p.m.
Ronald Fortuna, 39, of Isle of Palms, S.C., Edward Fortuna, 38 of Mount Pleasant, S.C., and Greg Rubin, 32, of West Ashley, S.C., were reported overdue Sunday at approximately 8 p.m. by family members after the men didn’t...
Coast Guard and VISAR Rescue Boater
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard and Virgin Islands Search and Rescue VISAR crews rescued a boater Sunday who was anchored and disabled aboard his 28-foot pleasure craft Four Brat, approximately 10 nautical miles north of Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands.
The boater established marine radio communications with VISAR on VHF-FM Channel 16 at approximately 6:30 p.m. and reported being in...
Barge Sinks Spilling Diesel Fuel into Water
BOSTON – The Coast Guard responded to reports that the 180-foot barge Sei 17 sank in Quincy Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., with no one aboard, spilling an unknown amount of diesel fuel into the water at about 8:45 p.m., today.
“Assets from Station Point Allerton arrived on scene shortly after the Coast Guard received notification, and we dispatched a petty officer from Sector Boston to investigate...
