Coast Guard keeps busy during first week of Dungeness crab season
A Station Grays Harbor coxswain aboard a 47-foot motor lifeboat adjusts throttles while alongside a disabled commercial fishing vessel off Copalis Head, WA, Friday, Dec. 3. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Station Grays Harbor)
SEATTLE — Coast Guard crews across the Pacific Northwest have towed 10 disabled or distressed commercial fishing vessels back to port in the first week of the Dungeness crab season...
Coast Guard urges safety for upcoming Dungeness crab season
A 47-foot Motor Lifeboat from Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment prepares to enter the surf zone off the Washington Coast. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier)
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard urges commercial fishermen to ensure vessel safety to prevent maritime emergencies before the opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season scheduled to begin Sunday with the Pre-Soak.
Marine...
Coast Guard urges safety for the Dungeness crab season in NorCal
Coast Guard Sector San Francisco members inspect an immersion suit during a dockside vessel examination in Bodega Bay, California, Nov. 10, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard urges commercial fishermen throughout Northern California to review their safety equipment and seek out Coast Guard dockside examinations to identify safety hazards in order to prevent maritime...
Coast Guard urges safety for the 2020-2021 Dungeness crab season
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard urges commercial fishermen to ensure vessel safety to prevent maritime emergencies before the opening of the Dungeness crab season scheduled to begin Dec.16.
Marine Investigators from Marine Safety Unit Portland have responded to over 95 marine casualties involving commercial fishing vessels so far this year. The term “marine casualty” is often misunderstood by mariners...
Coast Guard asks commercial fishermen to sign up for marine safety, survival training
Members practice immersion suit survival techniques in the Willamette River at the docks of Marine Safety Unit Portland, Oregon. U.S. Coast Guard file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Trevor Lilburn.
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Coast Guard has scheduled marine safety and survival training in five different cities along the Oregon Coast and is offering six separate two-day trainings beginning Oct. 24.
The...
Coast Guard readies commercial fishermen for safe crab season
Mike Rudolph (yellow gloves), a fishing vessel safety examiner from the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Unit Portland, teaches students how to move around more efficiently in their survival suits during an 18-hour drill conductor’s course in Newport, Oregon. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Zac Crawford.
WARRENTON, Ore. — Coast Guard personnel have worked with many members...
Coast Guard offering Marine Safety and Survival Training for Commercial Fishermen
Mike Rudolph (yellow gloves), a fishing vessel safety examiner from the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Unit Portland, teaches students ways to make themselves easier to be seen from aircraft overhead in Newport, Oregon Mar. 24, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard file photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Zac Crawford.
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Coast Guard has scheduled marine safety and survival training in four...
28 accidents reported since crab season began off Oregon, Washington
PORTLAND, Ore. — Since the commercial Dungeness crab season began on January 15th, Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Portland marine investigators have responded to 28 marine accidents involving commercial fishing vessels, with no reported deaths or serious injuries.
Since the start of the season, Marine Safety Unit Portland personnel responded to an average of one marine accident per day, causalities...
Coast Guard reminds mariners to apply safety measures as Dungeness crab season begins
52-foot Motor Life Boat Intrepid from Coast Guard Station Coos Bay file photo
WARRENTON, Ore. — The Coast Guard is reminding commercial fishermen and the boating public to remember safe boating practices and honor crabber-towboat lane agreements as the presoak period for the commercial Dungeness crab season begins January 12 and the season begins January 15.
Coast Guard safety teams have already...
