Video – Coast Guard Coordinates Safe Return of Carnival Splendor
SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard efforts culminate in the safe arrival and successful mooring of the Carnival Splendor. As the lead federal agency for the response, the Coast Guard reviewed and approved transit and tow plans and facilitated local, state, and federal efforts to ensure the safe arrival of the passengers and crew.
The Coast Guard responded with a number of assets on scene to enforce a 500-yard...
San Francisco Base Cutter Aspen Deploys for Gulf of Mexico oil spill response
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The Coast Guard Cutter Aspen, a 225-foot sea-going buoy tender homeported at Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, deployed to the Gulf of Mexico to assist with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response today.
Coast Guard conducts Fleet Week safety overflights with Navy Blue Angels pilot
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco MH-65 Dolphin helicopter flight crew, accompanied by a Navy Blue Angel’s pilot, conducted an overflight today of the area where Fleet Week activities will take place this week on San Francisco Bay.
Coast Guard to conduct pollution deployment drill
SAN FRANCISCO – The Coast Guard will conduct a pollution response drill by deploying the Spilled Oil Recovery System from the Coast Guard Cutter Aspen, homeported here, south of the Bay Bridge, near Yerba Buena Island at 9 a.m., Wednesday.
Coast Guard Cutter Aspen to hold change of command
SAN FRANCISCO – Lt. Cmdr. Roy Brubaker will relieve Cmdr. Steven Wittrock as commanding officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Aspen, homeported at Yerba Buena Island, during a change of command ceremony held at Coast Guard Sector San Francisco, June 19, at 11:00 a.m.
U.S. Coast Guard, Mexican Navy seize 8 tons of pot, smuggling boat,
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican Navy recovered more than eight tons of marijuana, seized a smuggling boat, and took four suspected smugglers into custody Thursday after disrupting a smuggling operation in international waters off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.
