Coast Guard places temporary buoys at ‘Firecracker’ Jetty
DETROIT – In conjunction with National Safe Boating Week, and recognizing long-standing community concerns, the U.S. Coast Guard has taken decisive action to enhance safety at the ‘Firecracker’ Jetty in Lake St. Clair. The ‘Firecracker’ is a partially submerged jetty on the southeast edge of the St. Clair Flats Canal in Lake St. Clair. Three temporary ‘keep out’ buoys have been strategically...
Coast Guard sets historic Francis Scott Key Memorial Buoy
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin, a 175-foot buoy tender homeported in Baltimore, Maryland, set the Francis Scott Key Memorial Buoy in the Patapsco River in Baltimore Harbor, May 24, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kimberly Reaves)
BALTIMORE — The crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin (WLM 555) set the historic Francis Scott Key Memorial...
Coast Guard to hold oil spill-boom deployment exercise in Yorktown
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Environmental Protection Agency, Virginia Department of Emergency Management, Port of Virginia, York County’s Emergency Management, York County, Abbington Fire Department, York County Department of Fire and Life Safety, and Accurate Marine Environmental are scheduled to conduct an oil spill-boom deployment exercise...
Coast Guard rebuilds Buck Island aids to navigation tower
Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Puerto Rico working to rebuild an aids to navigation tower light on Buck Island April 21, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photos by Chief Petty Officer Robert Quinn)
ST THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands — Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Puerto Rico completed the rebuild of the Buck Island aids to navigation tower light just off Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sunday.
The...
Coast Guard conducts oil spill exercise in American Samoa
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Honolulu Incident Management Division, District Fourteen District Response Advisory Team, and Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa participated in a four-day oil spill response and exercise deployment training last week.
The first two days of the exercise, hosted by Pacific Energy and Clipper Oil in collaboration with Preparedness Services and...
MSU Port Arthur responds to oil discharge on Intracoastal Waterway
Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur pollution responders assess the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and marsh near Mile Marker 260, April 26, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur)
HOUSTON — A Unified Command composed of the Coast Guard, Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, and Shell Pipeline Company LP...
Preserving Alaska’s living marine resources
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska supports some of the most abundant and diverse marine ecosystems in the world. With more than 46,000 miles of shoreline – more than all of the lower 48 U.S. states combined – the ocean is an integral part of Alaska’s ecosystems, economy, history and culture. According to National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Fisheries of the United States 2020 report, U.S....
Unified Command stands down for vessel fire in Tacoma
US Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Diolanda Caballero.
SEATTLE — The Unified Command composed of Tacoma Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound, Washington Department of Ecology and Puyallup Tribe of Indians, with support from several other agencies, which was stood up to respond to the April 8 fire aboard the fishing vessel Kodiak Enterprise moored in the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma,...
Coast Guard completes oil spill exercise
Participants of a full-scale oil spill exercise conduct a meeting, April 20, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Mikaela McGee)
KITTY HAWK, N.C. — The Coast Guard, Maritime Administration (MARAD), North Carolina Emergency Management, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and more than 40 other agencies completed a full-scale oil spill preparedness exercise in Kitty Hawk.
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