Coast Guard rescues 4 mariners from disabled lancha in Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard Cutter Decisive file photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Eggers
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Coast Guard law enforcement crews rescued four mariners from their disabled lancha illegally fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, Feb. 6, 2020.
While on a routine patrol a Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew located a lancha with four mariners aboard signaling distress....
Coast Guard suspends search for small overdue aircraft
Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft file photo
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard suspended its search for a small private aircraft and pilot in the Gulf of Mexico, Sunday.
Coast Guard crews searched over 62,565 square-nautical miles for approximately 21 hours but were unable to find the aircraft or pilot.
Involved in the search were:
Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile HC-144 Ocean...
Coast Guard, Mexican Navy search for overdue aircraft in Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry file photo by Aux. Michael Dubin
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard and Secretaria de Marina, the Mexican Navy, are searching for the pilot of a small overdue aircraft that likely crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday.
Missing is Steven Schumacher from Missouri, the pilot of the overdue Piper Aztec twin engine plane, tail number N778PA. There were no passengers with him.
Watchstanders...
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater medevacs crewman from tanker
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 file photo
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a 26-year-old man from a tanker approximately 195 nautical miles south-southeast of Southwest Pass, Louisiana, Wednesday.
Watchstanders at the Eighth Coast Guard District command center received a report from the Secretaría de Marina (Mexican Naval Secretariat), that a crewman aboard the gas tanker Prins...