Coast Guard suspends search for man overboard
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard suspended the search for a 35-year-old man who fell overboard near the Columbia River entrance yesterday.
Coast Guard Group Astoria received a call from the 36-foot fishing vessel Ida W II that one of their crew members had fallen overboard and was not wearing a life vest.
Coast Guard Air Station Astoria launched an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and Coast Guard Station...
Coast Guard Searching for Fort Lauderdale Man
BAYPORT, Fla. – The Coast Guard is continuing its search today for a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., man who was reported missing yesterday from a 46-foot pleasure craft about 75-miles west of Bayport, Fla.
Lindsay Forde, 48, of Ft. Lauderdale, the captain of the vessel, was reported missing to the Coast Guard at 6:37 p.m. Saturday, by vessel owner Michael Swindle, age and hometown unknown. According...
Coast Guard searches for man overboard
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard is searching for a 35-year old man who fell overboard near the Columbia River entrance today.
Coast Guard Group Astoria received a call from the 36-foot fishing vessel Ida W II that one of their crew members had fallen overboard and was not wearing a life vest.
Coast Guard Air Station Astoria launched an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment...
Coast Guard Cutter Tornado to return home after sucessful 31-day voyage
NEW ORLEANS – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tornado is scheduled to return to their homeport of Pascagoula, Miss., Sunday following a 31-day deployment in the Florida Straits.
While patrolling the Straits, off the coast of the Florida Keys, the crew conducted Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations, helping stop the flow of illegal immigration to the United States. Working with other Coast...
Coast Guard Monitors Grounded Party Boat
NIANTIC, CT.–The Coast Guard is monitoring a party fishing boat that ran aground one mile from Niantic CT., at around 2 p.m. today.
The 65-foot vessel Black Hawk II, owned by Black Hawk II LLC, was carrying 35 passengers from the Niantic Bay Marina to fish when the vessel ran around on rocks. The Coast Guard received notification over marine band radio at around 2 p.m.
Multiple Good Samaritans responded...
Coast Guard rescues four from sinking houseboat
BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard rescued four people from a sinking houseboat in the Magothy River in Annapolis, Md. today.
Rescued were Mark Hirsh, 46 of Spring Grove, Pa., William Kuchta Sr., 60 of Baltimore, William Kuchta Jr., 32 of Joppa, Md. and Tonya Rose, 31 of Joppa, Md.
The Coast Guard received a call at 9:30 a.m. reporting a 41-foot houseboat taking on water.
A 25-foot response boat crew...
Coast Guard All Hands Message: Where I Stand
From: Allen, Thad Admiral
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:19 AM EST
To: All Hands
Subject: Where I Stand
To the Men and Women of the Coast Guard:
Many of you are aware of two recent racial incidents at the Coast Guard Academy, the first in which a noose was discovered in the personal belongings of a cadet aboard EAGLE. A few weeks later, a second one was found in the Academy Assistant Civil Rights...
Coast Guard Conducts Airlift Off Humboldt Coast
MCKINNLEYVILLE, Calif.- The Coast Guard airlifted a 44-year-old male from a fishing vessel roughly 100 miles northwest of here Friday.
Shortly after 9 a.m., Coast Guard Group Humboldt Bay received a report from the 95-foot fishing vessel Dalena of a crewmember suffering from medical complications. At the time of the report, the vessel was 120 miles offshore.
A HH-65 Dolphin helicopter was launched...
Boater endangers commercial traffic off Marrowstone Island
SEATTLE – An unidentified vessel operator forced five large commercial vessels to take evasive action in Puget Sound near Port Townsend, Wash., Thursday morning.
At approximately 4:30 a.m., an intermittent radar contact was reported to the Coast Guard Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Service (Seattle Traffic) by a tug operator and several Puget Sound Pilots transiting the area near Marrowstone Point,...
