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Being approached by a US Coast Guard boat when you're on the water is normally not a good thing. But when you're with the crew of the M/V OCEARCH shark research vessel, it feels as if anything can happen.
Boston Light lighthouse Keeper Sally Snowman presents her book to Adm. Paul Zukunft, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard on Little Brewster Island, Mass., September 14, 2016.
Three men are dead and the U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene in Bandon late Saturday, where a recreational crab boat capsized Saturday morning. Coast Guard Sector North Bend's Petty Officer Second Class Ali Flockerzi said the station got the call at 9:20 a.m. that the boat disappeared in the waves at the Coquille River bar with three people on board.
River City Community Development Corporation will select winners from among 18 Men of Excellence nominees at a breakfast in their honor on Thursday. The Men of Excellence Awards Breakfast takes place from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the K.E. White Graduate Center.
Authorities scrambled Wednesday to contain and clean up a leak on the San Pablo Bay caused by an oil tanker berthed at a marine terminal belonging to the Phillips 66 refinery. The leak left two sheens on the bay, including one just over a mile long by 40 yards wide on the water in the northern San Pablo Bay area, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, the lead agency.
Searchers were deploying Wednesday to keep looking for a Sitka man last seen Monday afternoon on a mountain near the Southeast Alaska community, troopers said. Word that 37-year-old Michael Hansen hadn't returned from Mount Verstovia reached troopers Tuesday afternoon, according to a statement.
The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard has announced that Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., of Panama City, Florida has been awarded a contract to continue development of the Offshore Patrol Cutter. The contract includes $110.29M for detail design of the Offshore Patrol Cutter and options for production of the lead ship and up to eight follow-on cutters.
Farmers as well as town and state officials converged on Stratford Community Farm on Wednesday, taking time out from a picture-perfect day to officially christen the site after one of its main champions - the late Long Island Soundkeeper and longtime state representative Terry Backer. "We all knew him as a man of the sea, but he ended up not only being a person of the sea, but also a farmer," said Mayor John Harkins, who helped unveil the sign marking the 90+ community plots after Backer, who passed away last December after a long bout with brain cancer.
The last neighborhood the Coast Guard built on the island was Aviation Hill between the late 1990s and 2003, said U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Brian Chambers, who heads the personnel department.
The US Coast Guard on Thursday suspended its search for a woman who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship the day before, according to a news release. While witnesses said they saw her fall off the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy at 2:30 a.m., the cruise ship company released a statement saying she was "witnessed jumping overboard."
Authorities searched in the Bahamas for a U.S. citizen who went overboard from a cruise ship before dawn Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard said the 32-year-old woman reportedly fell from the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy as the ship passed near the island of Grand Bahama.
The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education and welfare of all Coast Guard members and their families, announced today that in 2016 it has awarded a record 128 new scholarships. Combined with multi-year scholarship recipients and three Fallen Heroes Scholars, the Foundation is currently supporting 163 students totaling $576,500 in support this year.
One person was rescued and the search is ongoing for two others after a small plane crashed in Lake Pontchartrain near the Lakefront Airport. The incident occurred Saturday night.
To celebrate 130 years of service, the Port Sanilac Lighthouse is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept, 10. The lighthouse is located on South Lake Street. With the completion of major restoration work, the public can see the original 1886 classic lighthouse Fresnel lens in place on top of the tower before the U.S. Coast Guard replaces it with a new LED light the following week.
U.S. Coast Guard officials say one person has been rescued and crews are searching for two others after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. Multiple media reports say Coast Guard personnel responded to the scene Saturday night after the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the Seabrook Bridge near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
U.S. Coast Guard officials say one person has been rescued and crews are searching for two others after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. Multiple media reports say Coast Guard personnel responded to the scene Saturday night after the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the Seabrook Bridge near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
The two mariners left Weno Island en route for Tamatam Island in an 18-foot vessel over a week ago with “limited supplies and no emergency equipment.” When the two men failed to arrive at their destination a day later, a search effort was launched in the western Pacific on Aug. 19, according to a statement released by the U.S. Coast Guard in Guam. In recent days, crews from Coast Guard District 14 - which covers the Hawaiian islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Saipan area - searched nearly 17,000 square miles using 15 boats and two aircraft, the statement said.
In this Aug. 25, 2016, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a pair of stranded mariners signal for help as a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft crew from Patrol Squadron 8 flies over in support of a Coast Guard search and rescue mission on an uninhabited island in Micronesia, Hawaii. The U.S. Coast Guard says the two stranded mariners were rescued Friday after crews saw their "SOS" in the sand.
Sector North Carolina watchstanders were notified that a diver from the vessel Atlantis reportedly experienced equipment failure and did not resurface, at approximately Watchstanders from Sector North Carolina dispatched a 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew from Coast Guard Station Oak Island, a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium from Station Wrightsville Beach and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City to search for the man. The 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Cushing and 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Ibis are also on the way to assist in the search.