Coast Guard rescues 3 from boat taking on water off Virginia Beach
LITTLE CREEK, Va.– The Coast Guard rescued three mariners Saturday after their boat began taking on water near Virginia Beach.
Coast Guard Station Little Creek watchstanders received a report at approximately 7:15 p.m. that a 23-foot boat was taking on water 10 miles east of Rudee Inlet.
Station Little Creek diverted a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew already underway, and it arrived on scene at...
Coast Guard rescues family of 6 from sinking sailboat near Freeport, Texas
A Coast Guard Station Freeport boat crew arrives to the 40-foot sailboat Providence at about 2 a.m. Sunday. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Surles.
HOUSTON — A Coast Guard boat crew came to the rescue about 4 miles northeast of the Freeport jetties, dewatering a sinking sailboat with a family of six aboard, and towing them to safety early Sunday morning.
Coast Guard Station...
Coast Guard rescues man from sinking yacht in Wrightsville Beach, NC
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued a 59-year-old man Saturday from a yacht taking on water in Masonboro Inlet.
A 29-foot Response Boat-Small (RBS) crew from Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach received a mayday call at 9:37 a.m. while on patrol. The 60-foot yacht Somewhere in Time was taking on water with one man aboard after the yacht stuck a rock jetty.
The RBS crew arrived on scene...
Coast Guard assists 4 near Texas City, Texas
U.S. Coast Guard Station Galveston 29-foot response boat sits next to the towboat U.S. at the Galveston Yacht Basin after towing it ashore Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Straight Pope)
HOUSTON — Coast Guard crews brought four people to safety from two boats that were both disabled by the rocks off Snake Island, across the Texas City Ship Channel from the dike, Saturday...
Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach medevacs injured woman from sailboat near Wilmington, NC
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured woman from a grounded sailboat Sunday just east of Seagate.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina in Wilmington received a call at approximately 3:15 p.m., reporting a 38-foot Sundancer sailboat ran aground with a man, woman and two children aboard about one mile south of Bradley Creek near Money Island.
A crew aboard a 25-foot...
Coast Guard, good Samaritan boater rescue 4 from Saginaw Bay
CLEVELAND — The Coast rescued four people, Sunday evening, from the waters of Saginaw Bay, Michigan.
At about 7 p.m., the Coast Guard responded to a mayday that came over a VHF-FM radio channel 16, the designated international hailing and distress channel, from a good Samaritan boater who came across four people clinging to an overturned boat in Saginaw Bay. A rescue boat crew aboard a 24-foot air...
Coast Guard assists disoriented boaters taking on water in Lake Erie
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard assisted 4 boaters, late Saturday afternoon, who were disoriented and taking on water in western Lake Erie.
At about 4:45 p.m., a rescue boat crew aboard a 25-foot response boat, from Coast Guard Station Marblehead, Ohio, responded to a report from personnel at Towboat US of four disoriented boaters whose vessel was taking on water. Upon receiving the report, the rescue...
Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescue man after boat capsizes near Camp LeJeune, NC
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued a 39-year-old man Wednesday after his boat capsized at the entrance to Bear Inlet near Camp LeJeune, N.C.
Seaman Alex Cordes, a boatcrew member at Coast Guard Station Emerald Isle, N.C., and a member of Carteret County emergency medical services assist a man off a 24-foot Special Purpose Craft – Shallow Water at Coast Guard Station...
Coast Guard contracts removal of fuel from sunken boat
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Coast Guard contracted the removal of any fuel or hazardous substances that may be aboard the 65-foot motor vessel Wanderer Monday, after the vessel sank in the Intracoastal Waterway at Osprey Marina in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Saturday morning.
Personnel at Coast Guard Sector Charleston were notified of the sunken vessel and directed pollution responders to investigate further.
The...
