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U. S. Coast Guard Morning News Digest
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07/02/09
Coastie Conducts 1st Rescue as Coxswain
Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert M. Kroll, a boatswain’s mate from Coast Guard Station Mayport, Fla., and a Keystone Heights, Fla., native, was still awake when the call came in after midnight. More ...
Memorial Planned for Coast Guard Petty Officer
The Coast Guard has scheduled a memorial service for a petty officer who died in a fishing accident. More ...
CG Changes Oil Pollution Act of 1990
The U.S. Coast Guard announced the publication of an interim rule that adjusts limits of liability for vessels and deepwater ports under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. More ...
CG Cutter Legare Deploys to Africa
The Coast Guard cutter Legare deployed Wednesday to the west and central coasts of Africa. More ...
Coast Guard Salutes a Cherry Point Squadron for a Live-Saving Partnership
Across the country, the Guard has saved more than a million lives throughout its history—but here in the east, they’ve had a little help. More ...
Fifteen Injured in Ferry Crash
Fifteen people are injured after a ferry boat with 800 passengers lost power and crashed into a pier at Staten Island, New York. More ...
Coast Guard Ends Search for Passenger
The Coast Guard has called off its search for a missing ferry passenger who left a bicycle aboard the Bremerton ferry Wednesday morning. More ...
Guam Coast Guard Deputy Makes Commander
U.S. Coast Guard Captain Luann Barndt has departed Guam for a new assignment in a colder climate -- and more stripes! More ...
Coast Guard to Commission New Cutter
The Coast Guard will commission the 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Sea Dog at a ceremony aboard Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. More ...
07/01/09
Coast Guard Says New Technology Will Save Lives, Reduce Hoax Calls
Coast Guard officials introduced “Rescue 21” Tuesday morning at Coast Guard Station Fort Macon. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues 29 People From Delta
The Coast Guard rescued 29 people, 27 of them children, from a boat that was sinking in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Tuesday afternoon, a Coast Guard petty officer said. More ...
Can the Coast Guard Get It Right on Social Media?
The Coast Guard in recent months has embraced web 2.0: The service launched a new multimedia site and took enthusiastically to Twitter. Even Adm. Thad Allen, the Coast Guard commandant, has been updating his blog. More ...
Coast Guard Intercepts Kodiak Vessel Fishing Illegally
A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules crew sighted a Kodiak-based fishing vessel illegally fishing approximately 24 miles south of King Cove Monday morning in the Clubbing Rocks No Transit Zone engaged in halibut fishing. More ...
Woman, Child Drown at NJ Beach
Officials suspect rip currents are to blame for the drowning deaths of a woman and a child at the Jersey shore. More ...
Dry Water Officers Halt 285 Boats on Oneida Lake
The state police led a county, state and national enforcement check called Operation Dry Water, during which time they stopped 285 boats, issued 36 tickets and gave 70 safety warnings, according to state police. The enforcement stretched the entirety of Oneida Lake, with help from the Oneida, Oswego and Onondaga county sheriff’s marine patrols. More ...
06/30/09
Port Security Unit 311 to Return From Kuwait
Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311, located in San Pedro, Calif., will be welcomed home by family and friends during a short ceremony after a seven-month deployment to Kuwait. More ...
Riptide off Montara Beach Kills Mother, Daughter
A mother and her young daughter have died after being pulled from the waters of Montara State Beach Monday afternoon, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant said.
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Training Begins for Coast Guard Academy’s Class of 2013
On Monday, they began Swab Summer, where 295 recruits from across the country and around the world start their four-year journey to becoming Coast Guard officers. More ...
Distressed Boaters Rescued
Three men were rescued by a boater after their boat capsized, according to officials with the Collier County Sheriff's Office. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Boaters Near Rocks
Petty Officer George Degener said the Coast Guard was called shortly after 4 p.m. from a sail boater who radioed dispatch to tell them he was in trouble after he damaged his boat near the rocks. More ...
5th District Welcomes New Commander
The Fifth Coast Guard District welcomed a new district commander Monday as Rear Adm. Wayne Justice relieved Rear Adm. Fred M. Rosa, Jr., during a change-of-command ceremony at the Integrated Support Command.
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Coast Guard Crew Conducts Boardings During Operation Dry Water (Video)
A boat crew from Coast Guard Station Cape May, N.J., conducts recreational boat boarding’s near Wildwood, N.J., in participation of Operation Dry Water. More ...
Coast Guard Cutter to Hold Change of Command Ceremony
The Coast Guard Cutter Dependable is scheduled to hold a change of command ceremony at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May in Cape May, Wednesday at 11 a.m.
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Coast Guard Launches Helicopter to Two Scenes Over Weekend
The U.S. Coast Guard assisted in rescue cases this past weekend. More ...
Coast Guard Investigating Harbor Ferry Accident
The United States Coast Guard has launched an investigation into this weekend's harbor ferry accident. More ...
Coast Guard Focused on New Technology
As the Coast Guard works to replace a navigational tower toppled in a car crash at Kewalo Basin, it is also busy modernizing its extensive network of beacons and buoys. More ...
06/29/09
6 Rescued After Boat Loses Power 20 Miles Out to Sea
Six people, including a Port Orange man and a Palm Coast man, were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from a disabled boat Saturday about 20 miles northeast of Ponce Inlet, authorities said. More ...
Two Rescued by Coast Guard
Two people stranded on a personal watercraft in waters off southern New Jersey were found uninjured by Coast Guard rescue crews. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues 3 in Evanston
Three people were rescued by lifeguards and taken ashore by the Coast Guard Sunday night in Evanston. More ...
Coast Guard Medically Evacuates Man With Chest Pains
The. U.S. Coast Guard Station Cleveland harbor medically evacuated a 55-year-old crewman from the motor vessel H. Lee White in the vicinity of the Cleveland breakwall at approximately 1:00 p.m. Sunday. More ...
Missing Swimmer Search Continues
Authorities and volunteers were still searching Sunday evening for a young swimmer lost in Little Narrows near Poplar Branch in the Currituck Sound Saturday night — even as hopes for finding her safe dwindled. More ...
Near-Drowning Among Several Beach Rescues
A man was rushed to the hospital after lifeguards pulled him from a rip current at Carolina Beach Saturday evening, officials said. More ...
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Chinese Crewmember
The Coast Guard suspended its search for a 37-year-old Chinese crewmember, presumed to have fallen overboard from the 685-foot container ship Sao Paulo approximately 754 miles southwest of Kodiak in the North Pacific Ocean. More ...
Coast Guard Petty Officer Drowns
The Ketchikan fisherman who drowned Saturday trying to retrieve a lure was a Coast Guardsman with 11 years' service, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. More ...
Coast Guard in Iowa Searching for Missing Boater
A weekend boating accident has the U.S. Coast Guard on the lookout for a missing Iowa boater. More ...
06/26/09
Abandoned Boats Proliferate as Economy Slumps
The proliferation of abandoned boats in the San Francisco Bay is prompting harbormasters, environmental groups and law enforcement to come together to brainstorm how to keep owner from just dumping their toys. More ...
Coast Guard Search Comes up Empty
The Coast Guard responded Thursday evening to a radio call from an unknown source saying that a vessel has been struck by lightning and was “going below” on Lake Champlain. More ...
USCG: Change of Command
Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nicholas M. Pavlik relieved Senior Chief Boatswain’s Mate Eric Benafel and assumed Command as Officer in Charge of Station Apra Harbor. More ...
CG Investigates Marine Casualty
The Coast Guard is investigating a marine incident that caused a tug boat to take on water and sink in Lake Pontchartrain. More ...
CG Ends Search for Missing Boater
The Coast Guard ended its search for Seth Coellner, one of four people aboard the 36-foot recreational vessel that went down Wednesday near the mouth of the Merrimack River. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues 5 in Chesapeake Bay
The Coast Guard rescued one adult and four children that were stranded on a disabled vessel due to an engine fire in the Chesapeake Bay near Gibson Island, Md. More ...
Water Taxi Stopped From Suing Coast Guard
A federal appeals court has ruled against the owners of the water taxi that capsized in 2004 leaving 5 people dead in the harbor. More ...
13 Rescued After Canoes Tip Over
Thirteen teenage boaters were treated for hypothermia-like conditions on Thursday evening after big waves swamped their canoes and dumped them into Port Susan Bay. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Injured Boater
The 17-foot boat with three people onboard collided with something in the water. The boaters called the local sheriff's office, who then called in the Coast Guard. More ...
Bangor Woman Gets Three Years in Identity Theft
She stole the identity of the nation’s highest-ranking female U.S. Coast Guard official, and now she will pay the highest penalty.
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