Coast Guard transfers man, medevacs woman in NC
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard transferred a male patient Saturday from Morehead City, then medevaced an 80-year-old woman from a cruise ship approximately 50 miles south of Cape Lookout.
Coast Guard 5th District watchstanders received a request Saturday morning to transfer a male patient suffering head trauma from Carteret General Urgent Care in Morehead City to Duke University Hospital in...
Gliding through the Graveyard
Norfolk-based sailor Robert Suhay sails near Beaufort, N.C., in July 2015. Suhay sailed from Morehead City, N.C., to Annapolis, Md., in a 14-foot Laser, setting a world record for long-distance dinghy sailing. (Photo by Lisa Suhay)
Written by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nate Littlejohn, photos by Lisa Suhay
After Robert Suhay, 52, of Norfolk, Virginia, set a world record in July 2014 for the longest single-handed...
Coast Guard participates in oil spill response exercise in Portsmouth, Va.
Rear Adm. Stephen P. Metruck (left), Coast Guard 5th District commander, speaks with Capt. Richard J. Wester (center), Sector Hampton Roads deputy commander, and Capt. Christopher S. Keane (right), Sector Hampton Roads commander, during a simulated oil spill exercise. Multiple agencies, including the Navy and Coast Guard, participated in a joint training exercise . (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty...
Coast Guard responds to unmanned skiff near Laenani Neighborhood Park, Oahu
Unmanned 10 to 12-foot purple skiff found washed up in the vicinity of Laenani Neighborhood Park, Oahu, Saturday.
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard is responding to a report of an unmanned 10 to 12-foot purple skiff found washed up in the vicinity of Laenani Neighborhood Park, Oahu, Saturday.
Anyone with information regarding the ownership of this boat, is asked to please contact the Coast Guard Sector...
Coast Guard rescues 2 from capsized boat off the Texas City Dike
(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick)
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard rescued two people Friday afternoon after their boat reportedly capsized from a ship’s wave north of the Texas City dike near the Houston Ship Channel Friday afternoon.
A good Samaritan called Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders at 5:08 p.m., on VHF-FM channel 16, to report the two...
Coast Guard assists disabled sailing vessel near Old Field, N.Y.
NEW YORK — Coast Guard crewmembers assist a disabled sailing vessel approximately three miles northwest of Crane Neck Point in Old Field, New York, Friday.
At approximately 2 p.m., watchstanders from the Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center received notification from a good Samaritan about a 30-foot sailing vessel that was disabled and requested assistance
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Coast Guard saves two from sunk fishing boat 50 miles east of Portland, ME
BOSTON — Rescue crews from Coast Guard Station Boothbay Harbor, the Coast Guard Cutters Campbell and Ocracoke, and Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod saved two people from their sunken fishing vessel the Jeanne C. 50 nautical miles east of Portland, Maine, Friday.
Watchstanders at the 1st District Command Center in Boston received an emergency beacon notification from the fishing vessel Jeanne C. around
3:28...
Coast Guard, community honor Medal of Honor recipient Douglas A. Munro in Cle Elum, Wash.
Members of the Coast Guard Combat Veterans Association, Chief Warrant Officers Association, Chief Petty Officers Association, Coast Guard Cutter Midgett, and the Coast Guard Enlisted Association present wreaths on the grave of Signalman 1st Class Douglas A. Munro during a memorial ceremony held in his honor at Laurel Hills Memorial Cemetery in Cle Elum, Wash., Sept. 25, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo...
Coast Guard detains foreign vessel in port of Tacoma due to safety deficiencies
This undated photo shows the motor vessel Rena, detained in the Port of Tacoma by the Coast Guard due to safety deficiencies Sept. 24, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound)
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard detained the motor vessel Rena in the Port of Tacoma, Thursday, due to safety deficiencies.
The vessel will be required to remain in port until the deficiencies are...
