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Coast Guard Sector Charleston received a call at approximately 11:30 p.m., from the girlfriend of a man who has become stranded on Ossabaw Island after suffering mechanical issues on his 14-foot recreational boat. A boat crew aboard a 45-foot Response Boat - Medium from Coast Guard Station Tybee and an aircrew aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Savannah were launched to assist.
Police, firefighters, divers, and the U.S. Coast Guard searched for the teen on Saturday and plan to resume on Sunday morning. WPVI-TV reports the boy, whose father identified him as 16-year-old Antoine Fox, went missing shortly before 11 p.m. Friday near a boat ramp in the city's Torresdale neighborhood.
The United States Coast Guard says it has offloaded 573 pounds of marijuana, worth US$1.2 million, that was seized in the Caribbean Sea.On Friday, the Coast Guard said that the drug - offloaded in the US Virgin Islands, follows a recent at sea interdiction off the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Seven suspected smugglers, all Venezuelan nationals, have been turned over to the US Department of Justice for potential prosecution by the US Attorney's Office for the District of the Virgin Islands, the Coast Guard said.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three fishermen from a nearly submerged boat off the coast of St. Simon's Island on Thursday. We're told a call came into the Command Center shortly before 2 p.m. that the 73-foot fishing vessel was taking on water.
He started with some expected comments about the great responsibility the graduates will have and the challenges they will face as members of the U.S. Coast Guard. But then he diverged and continued his crusade against the media.
A plane has gone missing near the Bahamas in the infamous Bermuda Triangle -- with fears for four people, including two children on-board AP reports that the US Coast Guard issued a statement after air traffic control in Miami lost radar contact with the twin-engine aircraft east of the island of Eleuthera at 2:10pm local time on Monday. Hours later, the Coast Guard tweeted that crews located debris field approximately 24km east of Eleuthera, with the search for survivors continuing.
One of the chief organizers of the 2017 N.C. Potato Festival is anticipating crowds of up to 40,000 for the approximately three-day event this coming weekend. "We'll be ready to go on Friday ... we're almost there," Elizabeth City Downtown Development Inc. Director Deborah Malenfant said Monday afternoon.
New U.S. Coast Guard statistics illustrate the dramatic drop in the number of Cuban migrants trying to reach U.S. shores by sea since President Barack Obama ended "wet foot, dry foot" in January. Coast Guard data released Monday says U.S. authorities caught more than 1,000 Cuban migrants at sea in April and May of 2016.
Environmentalists are calling for better protections around waterfront electrical substations in the wake of a "catastrophic" transformer failure at a Con Edison's DUMBO location that likely leached thousands of gallons of mineral oil into the East River. While the Sunday afternoon transformer failure occurred on land, the oil swiftly flowed across the porous ground into the river nearby, said John Lipscomb, a clean water advocate with Riverkeeper, who has been keeping tabs on cleanup efforts from the U.S. Coast Guard, the State's Department of Environmental Conservation and the public utility.
REDONDO BEACH >> The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search operation Saturday after receiving reports that an aircraft had possibly gone down in the Pacific Ocean near Redondo Beach, authorities said. Coast Guard officials based in the USCG's Los Angeles-Long Beach Sector received a distress call from an aircraft's emergency location transmitter beacon about 11:45 a.m., USCG officials said in a written statement.
A Colombian and two Ecuadoreans have appeared in Miami federal court accused of conspiring to transport cocaine on a boat intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard near the Galapagos Islands in South America. It's only the latest of many similar cases involving boats intercepted at sea, far from Miami, whose crew members are then brought here for trial.
A decommissioned Coast Guard cutter famous for its service in World War II and 1991's deadly "Perfect Storm" off the coast of Massachusetts was laid to rest on Wednesday as it joined the cadre of sunken ships that comprise the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef below the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
There are little details available at this time but reports indicate a small float plane has capsized or crashed in St. Marys River in the vicinity of the Pine Street Marina. The plane's pontoons were spotted above the water level shortly after 4 p.m. today and emergency crews were dispatched.
CHOKOLOSKEE, Fla. A stranded boater was rescued early Sunday morning near the Chokoloskee Island Park and Marina, the Collier County Sheriff's Office said.
Rescue teams with the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a missing boater in Copano Bay near Rockport. The incident started around 3:30 Saturday afternoon after rescue crews say his boat was found adrift with the engine running and fishing gear on board.
Following the inclusion of $5 million for the National Coast Guard Museum in the federal spending bill working its way through Congress, several of Connecticut's congressional delegates are reviving a bill to create a commemorative coin that would help to raise money for the museum. U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, on Wednesday reintroduced the United States Coast Guard Commemorative Coin Act, which would require the U.S. Treasury to create new $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins and half-dollar coins.
The Disney Wonder transited the Panama Canal on Saturday as the first passenger vessel to go through the canal's new set of locks, marking a milestone for the cruise industry. The Disney Cruise Line 2,713-passenger ship was transformed in late 2016, expanding the length of the Disney Wonder to 984 feet.
The U.S. Coast Guard is expanding its operations along Oregon's northern coast by selecting Astoria as the new home for two fast response cutters. The Daily Astorian reports the 154-foot cutters will replace smaller, 1980s-era patrol boats that are nearing the end of service.
Coast Guard watchstanders at Sector Maryland-National Capitol Region were told about a 40-foot vessel with two people aboard. A Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boatcrew from Station Crisfield, the crew of the 87-foot cutter Cochito, a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City rescue helicopter crew, and an aircrew from Naval Air Station Patuxent River responded.