Coast Guard assists disabled vessel in Chincoteague Bay
Coast Guard 27-foot Special Purpose Craft-Shallow Water (SPC-SW) File Photo.
CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. — The Coast Guard assisted a disabled boat with five people aboard just after midnight Wednesday near Mosquito Creek in Chincoteague Bay.
Coast Guard Sector Virginia watchstanders received a notification that a 21-foot pontoon boat reportedly suffered an engine casualty and needed assistance. A Coast Guard...
Coast Guard suspends search for missing truck driver
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard and local agencies suspended their search Friday for the driver of a tractor-trailer truck after it went over the rail of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Thursday roughly 1 mile from Chic’s Beach.
Coast Guard response crews were notified at 9:30 a.m. that salvage crews had found the operator deceased in the cab of the truck.
The local medical examiner confirmed...
Coast Guard searches after semi goes off Chesapeake Bay Bridge
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard and local agencies are searching for one person, Thursday, after a tractor-trailer truck went into the water from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Virginia command center were notified at approximately 2 p.m. that the truck with trailer attached went over the rail with at least one person inside roughly 1 mile from Chic’s Beach.
Multiple...
Coast Guard to enforce safety zone during Norfolk Harborfest 2023
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is scheduled to conduct safety patrols and enforce safety zones during Norfolk Harborfest 2023, which runs June 9-11 at Town Point Park, at the Downtown Norfolk Waterfront.
Norfolk Harborfest is a maritime festival run in partnership between hundreds of national, state and local organizations to encourage public boating safety.
Historically, Norfolk Harborfest draws...
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 rescues 2 after boat beaches near Mink Island
Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter file photoPORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard rescued two people Sunday afternoon after their small boat beached near Mink Island.
Watchstanders at Sector Virginia received notification from the owner of the beached vessel that he and his passenger were stranded 2 miles offshore and were unable to get underway due to deteriorating weather...
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.
The...
Coast Guard hosts 17th annual Search and Rescue Forum
Coast Guard assets participate in a search and rescue training exercise with other agencies during a SAR forum event Mar. 3, 2023 near Hampton Roads, Va. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward Wargo
HAMPTON, Va. — Coast Guard Sector Virginia and the Port of Virginia hosted the 17th annual Steven Todd Dooley Search and Rescue Forum Monday February 27 near Hampton Roads, Va.
The...
Coast Guard to host search and rescue forum in Hampton, Va.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard Sector Virginia and the Port of Virginia and are hosting the 17th Annual Steven Todd Dooley Search and Rescue Forum Monday through Friday in Hampton.
The SAR Forum is an annual event that continues to strengthen regional interagency partnerships and communication, as well as improve the life-saving processes and skills required of search and rescue agencies. Courses...
