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Racers are shown participating in a previous year's Pack & Boots race. This year's Pack & Boots 5K and 1-Mile Survival Run event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 4. Hundreds are expected to run, walk and enjoy the scenic views of Downtown Portsmouth on Wednesday, July 4, at the Sixth Annual Pack & Boots 5K and 1-Mile Survival Run.
Mike Diaz, a kayak fisherman, describes spending 17 hours treading water and fighting the tides of Long Island Sound after his kayak capsized in October of 2017. Diaz credits his life jacket with his survival.
A 600-foot product tanker rescued four fishermen who had been adrift for more than 20 days approximately 350 miles southeast of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico on Sunday, June 3, 2018. U.S. Coast Guard officials received a notification from the Amver participating tanker Torm Resilience that the crew located a fishing vessel with four people aboard.
Records obtained by USA TODAY include only the Coast Guard's extra costs for 16 trips to South Florida since his inauguration in January 2017 Trump's Mar-a-Lago visits cost Coast Guard nearly $20M Records obtained by USA TODAY include only the Coast Guard's extra costs for 16 trips to South Florida since his inauguration in January 2017 Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2taFm5U A U.S. Coast Guard boat passes in front of the Mar-a-Lago Resort where President Donald Trump stays occasionally on weekends.
A recent deployment in the Pacific Ocean proved very successful for a US Coast Guard crew: During their 80-day patrol, they seized nearly 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth around $206 million. The Coast Guard cutter Campbell returned to its homeport in Kittery, Maine, on Friday after the counter-narcotics patrol in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
Following recent searchers for missing paddle boarders, the U.S. Coast Guard is leading a training program to help increase safety. Last Friday, the body of Spencer Mugford, 21, as located Friday by a commercial fisherman off the coast of Groton.
Watchstanders in North Carolina received the notification from Perquimans County 911 around 3:40 p.m. A 16-foot bass boat capsized and the two passengers were in distress. A rescue boat from Coast Guard station Elizabeth City was diverted and an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City was dispatch to assist.
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that a main reason the US Coast Guard was so busy rescuing people during Hurricane Harvey was that people were watching the storm on boats. The Coast Guard "saved 16,000 people, many of them in Texas, for whatever reason that is," Trump said during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters for a briefing on hurricane season.
Ben Krupinski, a noted homebuilder on the East End, was killed Saturday after his plane crashed into the ocean off an East Hampton beach. Krupinski, who owned an air charter service based at East Hampton Airport, was flying home with his wife Bonnie Bistrian Krupinski in his Piper PA31 Navajo, when the craft plunged into the water.
Port Huron has plenty to offer sightseers, even those who live here Residents get a look at what brings visitors to area. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://bwne.ws/2LPYYDP Jeremy Stapleton takes a photo of U.S. Naval Sea Cadets Hannah Smith and Michael Castillo during the Be a Tourist in Your Own Town event on Saturday, June 2, 2018 in Port Huron.
More than a dozen Navy and Coast Guard ships took part in a 30-year tradition this week, parading through New York Harbor for Fleet Week . The nautical display lasts just a few days, but the U.S. Coast Guard patrols the waterways of New York all year long, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
Students from Veronica Connor Middle School worked after school cleaning up the DeGlopper Memorial in the center of town last week. Students from Connor Middle School were some of the volunteers who pitched in to tidy up DeGlopper Park, located at the intersection of Grand Island Boulevard and Baseline Road.
The event is an undertaking of the It Happened to Alexa Foundation. Preparations for the 2018 version of GCR - much like the relocation of the foundation itself - remain a work in progress from Lewiston to Buffalo.
As Ohioans welcome the beginning of the summer season, a new report highlights the dangers of swimming in open water. The research released Tuesday by the group Safe Kids Worldwide shows about 1,000 children die in drowning accidents each year in the U.S. and another 7,000 are taken to emergency rooms.
In this July 14, 2017 file photo, The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails past the American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, left, and behind it, the Russian island of Big Diomede, separated by the International Date Line on the Bering Strait. The International Maritime Organization has approved two-way shipping routes into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait.
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating Thursday night's Hudson River yacht collision which led to an abrupt end to the Weehawken High School prom. The school's prom was just getting underway aboard the Cornucopia Destiny, an 115-foot yacht operated by Cornucopia Cruise Line, when the vessel crashed into another yacht docked at the 14th Street pier in Hoboken.
The Coast Guard assisted a distressed Canadian mariner after his vessel began taking on water about 80 miles from the Big Island. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry escorted the 73-year-old mariner to port aboard his 44-foot sailing vessel once the flooding was under control.
The California Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard train a police dog and his handler for vertical deployment on any ship that may need to be checked for bombs or other reasons. The California Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard train a police dog and his handler for vertical deployment on any ship that may need to be checked for bombs or other reasons.
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary members, at left, Raoul Lufbery and, at right, Gary Whipple flank VNP Chief Ranger Ben Welch as they donate 10 lifejackets to promote use by young people. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary members, at left, Raoul Lufbery and, at right, Gary Whipple flank VNP Chief Ranger Ben Welch as they donate 10 lifejackets to promote use by young people.