Coast Guard reopens portion of Tennessee River to commercial traffic after bridge collapse
PADUCAH, Ky. — The Coast Guard has reopened a portion of the Tennessee River, Saturday, after a section of the Eggner Ferry Bridge collapsed following an allision with a vessel.
The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has deemed the navigable channel safe for commercial transit after completing a channel survey Friday evening and finding no obstructions or debris. The safety zone from mile marker 41 to...
Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay comes to aid of 2 vessels beset by ice in Straits of Mackinac
CLEVELAND — The crew of a Coast Guard cutter came to the aid of two vessels that became beset by ice in the Straits of Mackinac Friday night and Saturday morning.
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay, a 140-foot ice-breaking tug homeported in St. Ignace, Mich., aided the vessels while engaged in Operation Taconite, the Coast Guard’s largest domestic ice-breaking operation, which began...
Coast Guard closes portion of Tennessee River after bridge collapse
PADUCAH, Ky. — The Coast Guard is enforcing a safety zone on a portion of the Tennessee River after a section of the Eggner Ferry Bridge collapsed following an allision with a vessel, Friday.
Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley watchstanders received the initial report at approximately 8 p.m., Central time, Thursday, that the cargo ship, Delta Mariner, had allided with the auxiliary channel span of the...
Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau crew seizes cocaine and three suspected smugglers
PACIFIC OCEAN – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau, a 378-foot cutter homeported at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., seized approximately 140 pounds of cocaine and apprehended three suspected smugglers earlier this month in the Eastern Pacific Ocean approximately 250 miles south of Guatemala.
A suspicious vessel was spotted in international waters by a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules...
Coast Guard scheduled to break ice in Green Bay
CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard is advising Green Bay, Wis., area residents who recreate on the ice that a U.S. Coast Guard cutter is scheduled to break ice between the Marinette/Menominee Harbor breakwall and Ports de Mortes Passage on Tuesday and Thursday of next week.
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay will be breaking ice to allow commercial vessels access to Menominee Harbor. ...
Protecting the children of those who guard the coast
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Local Coast Guardsmen serve the Nation every day both locally and globally, but there’s a group of professionals who protect those Coast Guardsmen’s most precious possessions, their children, while they protect the coast.
The 22-person staff of the Child Development Center aboard Coast Guard Training Center Cape May watches over more than 83 children daily while their parents...
Coast Guard and Crime Stoppers offer reward for finding false distress caller
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard Investigative Service, in partnership with Crime Stoppers of Michigan, announces today that they are offering a reward of up to $3,500 for information leading to the identification and conviction of the person(s) responsible for communicating a series of false distress calls to the Coast Guard.
The series of false distress or “mayday” calls have been transmitted...
Coast Guard to hold groundbreaking ceremony at Ellington Field
HOUSTON — Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston will host a groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility at Ellington Field, Tuesday.
Sector Houston-Galveston is currently located at a 7-acre site on the Houston Ship Channel in Galena Park. A planning proposal completed in August 2008 recommended the relocation of the unit to Ellington Field.
“The facility will be more efficient, provide better...
