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Coast Guard crews are enforcing a safety zone surrounding 16 construction barge mooring locations at the Tappan Zee Bridge construction site. No unauthorized vessels are allowed in the safety zone, which encompasses all navigable waters within a 200-yard radius of the largest machine on the project, the I Lift NY super crane, legally registered with the U.S. Coast Guard as the Left Coast Lifter.
U.S. Coast Guard pilots share personal accounts from a series of rescue operations over the weekend in the Baton Rouge area where communities were inundated with flood waters beginning Friday. Lt. Mike Hennebery, a pilot at Air Station New Orleans, said this was the first time he had flown inland.
The Coast Guard said the man was reported missing Saturday night around 7 p.m. Boats were brought in from both Shark River and Manasquan along with a helicopter from Atlantic City. A cutter continued the search overnight.
Petty Officer 2nd Class James A. Bowell directs Cutter Healy's man basket onto the ice off the Chukchi Sea, north of the Arctic Circle July 12. During Cutter Healy's first of three missions during their West Arctic Summer Deployment, a team of 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration studied the Chukchi Sea ecosystem. SEWARD, Alaska - Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Healy is set to depart Tuesday on a second Artic mission after mooring in Seward to disembark 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from its first mission.
The Border Protection Unit at the Jamaica Customs Agency has reported success for the first quarter of the 2016-17 financial year. "We had, over the quarter, nine Proceeds of Crime Act forfeiture applications made before the courts and we are attempting to get the courts to forfeit almost US$190,000 that was taken from persons who were attempting to bring the money in through our airports," said Director of Cargo Imaging Kingsley Henry.
The Latest on the rescue of 46 crew members who abandoned a fishing vessel in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Tuesday : Officials say two Good Samaritan vessels have rescued 46 people who abandoned a fishing boat in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Coast Guard Petty Officer Lauren Steenson says there were no reports of any injuries as the crew members were transferred from life rafts to the vessels in a fairly calm Bering Sea.
Two Good Samaritan vessels rescued 46 people Tuesday night who abandoned their sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Coast Guard said. There were no reports of any injuries as the crew members were transferred from life rafts to the merchant ships, in a fairly calm seas, Coast Guard Petty Officer Lauren Steenson said.
Two Good Samaritan ships were helping rescue 46 crew members who abandoned a sinking fishing vessel in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday. There were no reported injuries to the crew members, who had donned survival suits and then huddled in three large life rafts awaiting rescue after the 220-foot Alaska Juris started taking on water late Tuesday morning.
A crew of 46 people aboard a fishing boat abandoned ship nearly 700 miles off the Alaskan coast on Tuesday after the vessel began taking on water, authorities said. The Alaskan Juris issued an emergency beacon at 11:34 a.m., local time, alerting the U.S. Coast Guard and nearby vessels that the stranded crew members were abandoning ship in the Bering Sea.
The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking the public's help to find someone who has been broadcasting false 'mayday' distress calls over marine radio for the past two years. The person has made 28 such calls since July 2014 from an area around West Street near Route 2, the Coast Guard said.
The search is resuming for two men missing in Lake Michigan after high waves swept them from a pier in eastern Wisconsin. Keith Risse with the Sheboygan Fire Department says the men were fishing on South Pier on Sunday afternoon when they were washed from the pier.
Keith Risse with the Sheboygan Fire Department says the men were fishing on South Pier on Sunday afternoon when they were washed from the pier. A third man who also was knocked into the water was rescued and taken to a hospital.
C raig Morgan has cancelled the remainder of his July concert dates, according to his website , as his family mourns the loss of his son, Jerry Greer . The 19-year-old disappeared Sunday afternoon after a tubing accident on Tennessee's Kentucky Lake.
In a closely choreographed dance, a rescue swimmer was lowered from the helicopter to the 45-foot U.S. Coast Guard response boat. Amid the spray of Lake Michigan and waves generated by the wind from the rotors of the helicopter, the guardsmen on the boat safely took the swimmer aboard.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday continued searching for three missing fishermen off Hawaii after search and rescue crews found their overturned boat. Petty Officer 2nd Class Tara Molle said a helicopter, airplane and patrol boat were looking for the men.
Imperial County Sheriff's Office Boating Enforcement Safety Team Deputies will be on the Colorado River conducting saturated patrol on the river this 4th of July weekend. It is important to make a few preparations to ensure everyone has a safe weekend and returns home.
Coast Guard officials are crediting a locator device on a boat that overturned to the quick rescue of four people off Folly Beach. Lt. Dan Sweeney with the U.S. Coast Guard said the 21-foot boat had an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon that made the difference in saving the lives of the four people whose boat capsized.
U.S. Coast Guard swabs, center, are guided by Coast Guard cadets, left and right, as they recite phrases from the cadet handbook before swearing-in ceremonies, Monday, June 27, 2016, at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn. Forty years after military service academies opened their doors to women, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is marking the milestone Monday at its annual reporting-in day, when it welcomes a class with a record 38 percent female cadets.
Three people were killed after a boat carrying seven passengers capsized off the Catalina Island coast Saturday morning, officials said. The overturned boat was reported at 9:30 a.m. near Salta Verde Point on the backside of Catalina, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard.