Coast Guard, partner agencies conduct mass rescue exercise off San Diego coast

Coast Guard, partner agencies conduct mass rescue exercise off San Diego coast
Coast Guard members from Sector San Diego and partnership agencies conduct mass rescue exercises off the San Diego coast Sept. 14, 2021.  (U. S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Stanton) SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard personnel, San Diego and Los Angeles county lifeguards, harbor police, emergency response organizations and first responders conducted a mass rescue exercise off the San...

Coast Guard medevacs 57-year-old man suffering from heart complications near Point Loma

Coast Guard medevacs 57-year-old man suffering from heart complications near Point Loma
Coast Guard Station San Diego crewmembers medevaced a 57-year-old man Thursday afternoon from a cruise ship near Point Loma SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard Station San Diego crewmembers medevaced a 57-year-old man Thursday afternoon who was experiencing heart complications on a cruise ship near Point Loma. The cruise ship Ruby Princess notified Coast Guard Sector San Diego watchstanders at approximately...

Coast Guard suspends response to overturned boat near Point Loma

Coast Guard suspends response to overturned boat near Point Loma
Coast Guard Cutter Haddock File PhotoSAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard has suspended its response to an overturned boat near the Point Loma Tide Pools in the Cabrillo National Monument. The Coast Guard Cutter Haddock crew relieved the Blackfin and remained on scene through the night to continue searching for survivors from the capsized, 40-foot trawler-style boat while the Coast Guard and partner agencies...

Coast Guard responds to overturned vessel near Point Loma

Coast Guard responds to overturned vessel near Point Loma
Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento C-27J Spartan file photo by Lt. Scott Handlin SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard and partner agencies responded to an overturned vessel Sunday near the Point Loma Tide Pools in the Cabrillo National Monument. TowBoat U.S. contacted Coast Guard Sector San Diego command center watchstanders around 10 a.m., reporting a 40-foot trawler-style boat capsized on the rocks. Coast...

Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward rescues 3 off Torrey Pines

Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward rescues 3 off Torrey Pines
Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward file photo by Chief Petty Officer Brandyn Hill SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard rescued two adults and a child whose boat capsized off the coast of San Diego, Sunday. At approximately 2:30 p.m., a person aboard the 30-foot sailing vessel, Divided Soul, called mayday on VHF-FM marine band channel 16, the international hailing and distress frequency, that was picked up by...

Coast Guard responds to vessel collision with 29 people aboard

Coast Guard responds to vessel collision with 29 people aboard
Coast Guardsmen and emergency medical services personnel assist a person who was injured in a vessel collision and medevaced to Sector San Diego Oct. 26, 2018.  Coast Guard photo by Fireman Taylor Bacon. SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured person via helicopter and rescued 17 passengers, after a vessel collision near the maritime boundary line. The crew of the 332-foot yacht, Attessa...

Coast Guard medevacs 2, good Samaritan rescues 13, search for 3 continues

Coast Guard medevacs 2, good Samaritan rescues 13, search for 3 continues
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew transfers two patients to emergency medical services personnel at Coast Guard Sector San Diego Oct. 20, 2018.  (U.S. Coast Guard photo) SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard and good Samaritans rescued 15 people and continue to search for three more after a fishing vessel caught fire 28 miles south of Point Loma Saturday night. The crew of the 42-foot fishing vessel...

Coast Guard rescues 2 in San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Coast Guard rescues 2 in San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter file photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Henry G. Dunphy SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard rescued two people whose boat ran out of gas and drifted aground in the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Friday. A friend of the passengers aboard the stranded boat contacted Coast Guard Sector San Diego’s Joint Harbor Operations Center watchstanders just after 8 p.m., Thursday,...

Coast Guard rescues boater 12 miles west of San Onofre State Beach

Coast Guard rescues boater 12 miles west of San Onofre State Beach
A boater is helped off of a Coast Guard Sector San Diego MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter by the crew November 6, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Joel Guzman) SAN DIEGO – The Coast Guard rescued a man after his vessel began taking on water off the coast of San Onofre State Beach, San Clemente, California, Monday afternoon. At approximately 11:20 a.m., Monday, a man aboard an 18-foot...