Coast Guard removes pollution threat in San Juan Harbor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Coast Guard Incident Management pollution responders from Sector San Juan and the hired oil spill removal organization, Clean Harbors LLC, completed the removal of diesel and oily products from the 42-foot recreational vessel Ajo del País by Pier 11 in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico, Thursday.
Clean-up crews refloated the partially sunken vessel to remove approximately 800...
Coast Guard conducts pollution response exercise in Rota
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia Sector Guam Incident Management Division, alongside personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard District 14 Planning and Disaster Response Advisory Team, conducted a series of operations in Rota, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, on Feb. 8, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
SANTA RITA, Guam — Members of the U.S. Coast Guard worked with officials...
Coast Guard responds to vessel aground off Maui
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard responded to a 94-foot motor yacht that grounded off the north side of Honolua Bay, Maui, Monday.
Eight boaters onboard the vessel were safely returned to shore by the Maui Fire Department.
The Coast Guard Marine Safety Team are working with the owner of the vessel to arrange for salvage and the removal. Due to the urgency of the response needed, the Coast Guard Federal...
Coast Guard responds to diesel discharge in San Juan Harbor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Coast Guard Incident Management personnel from Sector San Juan are responding Tuesday to a diesel discharge from the partially sunken 42-foot recreational vessel Ajo del País by Pier 11 in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico.
Coast Guard Incident Management Division personnel are advising the public that there may be a strong smell of diesel in the area extending west from Pier...
Coast Guard Sector Juneau responds to partially-submerged tug
Tug vessel Tagish is partially submerged at the National Guard Dock in the vicinity of the Alaska Marine Lines yard in the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 29, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Sector Juneau)
JUNEAU, Alaska — Removal operations for a tug partially submerged at the National Guard Dock in Gastineau Channel, Alaska, are scheduled, weather pending, to be conducted later...
Coast Guard conducts oil-spill-on-ice exercise in Alaska
An oil-spill-on-ice training exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Feb. 1, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Nate Littlejohn)
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Members from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), and Navy Supervisor of Salvage (SUPSALV) participated in an ice-based pollution response exercise...
Coast Guard oversees pollution response near Meraux, La.
Nine hundred forty feet of the boom being placed around the capsized vessel W.B. Wood to contain its fuel discharge on the Mississippi River near Meraux, Louisiana on Jan. 16, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Sector New Orleans)
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard is overseeing a pollution response after a dredging vessel capsized in the Mississippi River in the vicinity of mile marker (MM) 85 near Meraux,...
Coast Guard, partners respond to reports of oil sheen off California
A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco flight crew conducts an overflight to monitor an oil sheen off of Summerland Beach in Santa Barbara, California, Jan. 7, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo released)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — U.S Coast Guard pollution responders are coordinating with partners in response to an oil sheen reported off Summerland Beach, Friday.
The estimated 1 and a half to 2-mile-long...
Coast Guard responds to sunken towing vessel in Port of Milwaukee
Milwaukee – Coast Guard pollution responders along with partners from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Milwaukee Harbor Patrol, the Port of Milwaukee and representatives of the towing vessel MICHIGAN are on-scene for the ongoing incident.
At 11:27 a.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan were notified by the National Response Center that the Towing Vessel MICHIGAN,...
