Coast Guard rescues man from sinking vessel off Cape Fear

Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and HC-130 Hercules aircraft file photo
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard rescued a mariner Monday afternoon from a sailing vessel taking on water 155 miles east of Cape Fear, North Carolina.
Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay command center watchstanders received a report of the 73-year-old man aboard the 33-foot sailing vessel Freyja Sunday night and reported that...
Coast Guard medevacs mariners near Bethany Beach, Delaware

47-foot Motor Lifeboat file photo by Cmdr. Brendan Hilleary
BETHANY BEACH, Del. — The Coast Guard medevaced five mariners from a motor vessel approximately 11 miles east of the Indian River Bay Sunday afternoon.
Sector Delaware Bay Command Center watchstanders received notification that five mariners aboard the motor vessel Reggeborg had experienced possible carbon monoxide poisoning and required...
Coast Guard responds to smoking sailing vessel south of Cape May

U.S. Coast Guard Station Cape May responds to heavy smoke aboard a sailing vessel 13 miles south of Cape May, New Jersey. The cause of fire was determined to be excess oil burning.(U.S. Coast Guard photo)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard responded to smoke aboard a sailing vessel Wednesday 13 miles south of Cape May, New Jersey.
Watchstanders with Sector Delaware Bay received a call via radio at...
Coast Guard medevacs man nearly 104 miles east of Atlantic City

Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bethany Teichert
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured 60-year-old man Sunday from a vessel nearly 104 miles east of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Watchstanders with Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay received a notification from the 31-foot pleasure craft, Reely, stating a 60-year-old man fell aboard the vessel and reportedly...
Coast Guard searching for overdue boater near Cape May Villas, N.J.

Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City MH-65 Dolphin helicopter file photo
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police are searching for an overdue boater Tuesday approximately 1 miles east of Cape May Villas, New Jersey.
Missing is Christian Johnathon Hosford, Jr., 33, last seen around sunset on Monday in a 10-foot John boat near his home in Cape May Villas. Hosford reportedly did...