Coast Guard, partner agencies suspend searching for missing boater near Fire Island Inlet sendsms x
A Coast Guard Station Fire Island boatcrew rescues a distressed boater from an overturned vessel in Fire Island Inlet, October 11, 2016. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Station Fire Island)
NEW YORK — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a missing person in the water near Fire Island Inlet, New York, Wednesday.
The 35-hour search was suspended at approximately 6:15 p.m., after search...
Coast Guard suspends search for missing boaters off Block Island, Rhode Island
BOSTON — The Coast Guard suspended the search Friday for Linda and Nathan Carman after searching for six days and exhausting all search efforts.
Initially, at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England received a report that 54-year-old Linda Carman and her 22-year-old son Nathan Carman failed to return from an offshore fishing trip. They departed Ram’s...
Coast Guard suspends search for two missing swimmers near Wading River, New York
NEW YORK — The Coast Guard suspended the search for two missing people in the water near Wading River, New York, Sunday.
The 17-hour search was suspended after officials from the Suffolk County Police Department located two bodies matching the description of the missing males, two-miles west of the Wading River.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this difficult time,” said Capt....
Coast Guard crews tow disabled New York fishing vessel
NEW YORK- Coast Guard crewmembers assisted in towing a 58-foot commercial fishing vessel after it became disabled Saturday about 50 nautical miles south of Shinnecock Inlet.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center received notification at approximately 7 P.M Saturday night that the fishing vessel Bookie was disabled and adrift with four mariners aboard.
The vessel became...
Coast Guard Station New London rescues mariner near Orient, New York
ORIENT, N.Y. – A Coast Guard Station New London rescue boatcrew rescued a mariner from a distressed sailing vessel approximately three miles north of Orient, New York, Saturday.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center (SLIS) received a call, Friday, from Southold Police Department relaying a distress call from a 50-foot sailing vessel with one person aboard, reporting...
Coast Guard responds to early season Nor’easter in New England
BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews worked overnight and continue to respond this morning to multiple mariners in distress.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Southeast New England Command Center received notification that the 55-foot Sailing Vessel Swept Away was unable to lower it’s sails and lost all propulsion in Rhode Island Sound, Wednesday. The Swept Away had five people onboard...
Coast Guard bids farewell to cutter with historic ties
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Gail DaleSmall
NEW JERSEY – Just as military service members are celebrated and honored for their faithful service to the country when they retire so too are the assets they serve upon when they are decommissioned. After more than 22 years of service the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bainbridge Island, a 110-foot patrol boat homeported in Bayonne, N.J., was honored...
Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak crew offloads seized cocaine worth $37 million
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak, 110-foot patrol boat homeported in Miami Beach, Fla., offloaded 2,500 pounds of cocaine Tuesday, worth an estimated $37 million wholesale value, seized in a multi-national counterdrug operation south of the Dominican Republic.
This drug interdiction marks the first time an armed U.S. Coast Guard helicopter embarked on a foreign flagged military...
Coast Guard offloads approximately $19 million of cocaine
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak, homeported in Miami, offloaded approximately $19 million estimated wholesale value of cocaine Thursday at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg.
The cocaine was seized in support of Operation Martillo.
During a patrol on October 27, a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment team aboard the Royal Dutch Navy’s HNLMS Amsterdam detected...
