Coast Guard suspends search for overdue fisherman on Lake Michigan
Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter file photo by Air Station Traverse City
CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for an overdue fisherman on Lake Michigan near Kewaunee, Wisconsin, Thursday.
Missing is Mark Wautelet, 38 years old, approximately 6-feet tall, 270 pounds with brownish hair.
Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan received a notification from...
Great Lakes Coast Guard seasonal units closing early to deploy to Hurricane Harvey response
A Coast Guard Station Saginaw River, Michigan airboat crew rescues a dog from the flood waters of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, August 28, 2017. The boat crew rescued over 115 people the same day while utilizing the unique characteristics of the 20-foot airboat, which functions well in shallow water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
CLEVELAND — Coast Guard units across the Great Lakes are poised to send additional...
Coast Guard searching for missing man in Lake Michigan
MILWAUKEE — Coast Guard and local emergency crews are searching the waters of Lake Michigan Monday for a man who went missing Sunday night near Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Coast Guard crews responded Sunday night after receiving a report of a capsized, unmanned 10-foot sailing vessel found 500 yards off Red Arrow Beach.
Searching are a boat crew from Coast Guard Station Two Rivers, Wisconsin, an aircrew...
Coast Guard, City of Two Rivers discuss changes to local Coast Guard operations
TWO RIVERS, Wis. — Representatives with the U.S. Coast Guard, City of Two Rivers, and Two Rivers area response agencies met in Two Rivers recently to discuss a Coast Guard proposal to optimize its response capabilities by adjusting how it operates Coast Guard Station Two Rivers, starting in the fall of 2016.
Under the proposed plan, Station Two Rivers will remain staffed with response crews Friday...
Coast Guard crews salvage sunken buoys in Green Bay and Lake Michigan
Crew aboard the Coast Guard cutter Mobile Bay retrieve multiple sinkers and flooded buoys Aug. 24, 2015, at Gravely Shoal buoy 4 in Lake Michigan. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Nathan Jones).
CLEVELAND — Coast Guard crews recover 11 buoys and 13 sinkers with mooring chain ending a 5-day salvage operation Friday in Lake Michigan.
Members of Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay, a Coast Guard dive team...
Coast Guard rescues four persons from sinking vessel off of Manitowoc, Wis.
A 31-foot vessel sinks in Lake Michigan about five miles off of Manitowoc, Wis., June 19, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd class Zach Niedermier)
MILWAUKEE – The Coast Guard rescued four men from a sinking 31-foot charter vessel about five miles off of Manitowoc, Wisconsin Friday.
At about 1:45 p.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan in Milwaukee received...
Coast Guard rescues 4 in Lake Michigan
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard rescued four people from Lake Michigan during two separate cases, Friday evening.
Just before 7 p.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan were notified of a capsized sail boat with two people in the water near Kenosha, Wisconsin.
A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Kenosha aboard a 25-foot response boat launched to assist, as well as an aircrew from...
Coast Guard recovers stolen vessel in western Lake Michigan, apprehends suspect
CLEVELAND — A Coast Guard boatcrew recovered a stolen boat near Sea Gull Marina in Two Rivers, Wis., Tuesday morning.
Just before 9 a.m. CDT, the communications watchstander at Coast Guard Station Two Rivers notified search-and-rescue controllers at Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan in Milwaukee that they had received a report of a stolen vessel near Sea Gull Marina in Two Rivers.
The reporting source...
Lake Michigan Coast Guard crews have busy weekend of boater rescues, assists
CLEVELAND — Coast Guard crews across Lake Michigan had a busy weekend and responded to more than 10 cases of mariners in distress, rescuing four and assisting 13. Unfortunately, two lives were lost on Lake Michigan this weekend.
Coast Guard 9th District crews throughout the Great Lakes region responded to 135 cases, rescuing six people and assisting 148 others.
The following synopses are the rescue...
