Coast Guard coordinates interagency medevac near Costa Rica
Pararescuemen from the 129th Rescue Wing, California Air National Guard, preparing to jump from an HC-130J Combat King II aircraft Saturday night to reach a 26 year old fisherman who sustained a serous head injury over 750 miles off the coast of Costa Rica.(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Duane Ramos)
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard coordinated efforts to medevac an injured mariner...
Coast Guard coordinates rescue of mariners 1,400 miles east of Bermuda
PORTSMOUTH, V.A.— Coast Guard personnel at Coast Guard Fifth District Command Center coordinated the rescue response of two mariners approximately 1,400 miles east of Bermuda, Friday.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Fifth District command center received an alert from an emergency positioning indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) from the French sailing vessel Malosa plotting approximately 1,400 miles...
Coast Guard, Navy combine efforts to medevac ill mariner to Bermuda
A MH-60T helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City lands on the deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), March 20, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John D. Bellino)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard, Navy and good Samaritan vessels combined efforts to medevac a tanker ship crewmember to Bermuda on Friday.
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Coast Guard, President Eisenhower rescue mariner 500 miles offshore
A 67-year-old man rows a small dinghy away from his disabled and adrift 28-foot sailing vessel Miss Lilly to the motor vessel President Eisenhower approximately 575 miles south southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, June 4, 2020. U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo.
KODIAK, Alaska – Coast Guard Seventeenth District command center personnel coordinated efforts with motor vessel President Eisenhower to...
Coast Guard coordinates joint-agency rescue of 5 people from seaplane 460 miles off NC
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of five persons from a seaplane, which had to make an emergency landing, approximately 460 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Saturday.
The seaplane left Elizabeth City, North Carolina, early Saturday morning and was forced to make the emergency landing after striking an object during take-off, which damaged the aircraft’s...
Coast Guard, international rescue centers, Orfea tanker vessel rescue 4 French boaters in Atlantic Ocean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico –U.S. Coast Guard watchstanders combined efforts with two international maritime rescue coordination centers, and the motor tanker Orfea, Sunday and Monday, to rescue four French boaters in the Atlantic Ocean.
Rescued are three men and a woman who were transiting aboard the 50-foot French sailing vessel L’Almiral, from the Spanish Canary Island of Las Palmas to the Caribbean...
Coast Guard, AMVER partners respond to disabled sailing vessel in Pacific Ocean
SEATTLE — Coast Guard search and rescue crews and an Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue crew are responding to a report of a sailing vessel disabled and adrift about 780 miles west of the Oregon California border, Sunday evening.
The operator of the 32-foot sailing vessel Hale’s Revenge reported that there were no injuries to anyone aboard, but they were disabled and adrift after sustaining...
Coast Guard coordinates rescue of 3 people 350 miles offshore
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of three people Thursday who were rescued by good Samaritans after their 41-foot sailboat, the Elusive, was beset by storms in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 350 miles east of Virginia Beach.
Rescued are Larry Monesson, 60, Sean Monesoon, 40, and James Moore, 40.
The father of James Moore contacted Coast Guard 5th District Command Center...
Distressed Royal Air Force rowing team saved; brought to shore by passing AMVER ship
BEAUMONT, Texas — Four members of the British Royal Air Force were rescued by the crew of the bulk carrier Hedvig Bulker and were brought back to dry land, Monday, after a treacherous 51 day, trans-Atlantic attempt from Spain to Antigua in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
Rescued were the Atlantic Forces rowing team: Jane McIntosh, Warren Burns, Howard Raw and Elizabeth Beauchamp.
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