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U. S. Coast Guard Morning News Digest
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05/16/12
Life of a Service Dog: Capitol Hill
Over the next few weeks, Compass will be sharing Nathan’s journey from birth, through his puppy “years” and into his final stages of training in our series “Life of a service dog.” We hope you enjoy Nathan’s story as he goes from a clumsy puppy to a focused service animal ready to serve our nation’s veterans. More ...
FBI, Coast Guard Seek Help in Kodiak Shooting Investigation
FBI and Coast Guard investigators want to speak with anyone in Alaska who may have sold, traded or transferred several models of .44-caliber revolver during the last year, in connection with last month’s double homicide at a Coast Guard communications stationon Kodiak Island. More ...
Coast Guard Makes a Wish Come True
Trey Erwin, a 15-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, and his family were given a tour of the air station. During the visit, the family met with Coast Guard pilots and rescue swimmers. Trey, his mother and younger brother were given flight suits, boots and pilot’s helmets to wear during their flight. More ...
One Rescued After Two Jet Skis Overturn in Lake Michigan
Milwaukee Coast Guard officials say one person had to be rescued Tuesday afternoon, May 15th after two jet skis overturned south of Bradford Beach and McKinley Marina. More ...
No Lifejackets Forces Maine Fishing Boat Back to Harbor
The Coast Guard says a boarding team conducted a routine at-sea inspection of the Corea, Maine-based, 38-foot fishing vessel Calypso on Monday and found several safety violations. More ...
Fire on Coast Guard Ship
An incident in the St. Clair River caused a stir along the shoreline as a U.S. Coast Guard ship caught fire Tuesday afternoon. More ...
Washington Closes Penn Cove Shellfish Harvesting
The Washington state Health Department has temporarily closed Whidbey Island's Penn Cove to all shellfish harvesting due to a diesel spill from a sunken fishing boat. More ...
Hearing to Examine Coast Guard Plan to Replace Aging Vessels & Aircraft
A Congressional hearing on Wednesday will examine the status and sustainability of the U.S. Coast Guard’s acquisition program and plans for recapitalizing its aging vessels and aircraft, formerly known as the Deepwater program. More ...
Staten Island Coast Guard Unit Makes 2 Rescue Calls to Same Tanker
Coast Guard emergency crews made two separate rescue visits to the same tanker at Stapleton Anchorage in New York Harbor Tuesday. More ...
Coast Guard Exercise to Result in Traffic, Increased Police Presence
The exercise will result in road closures, areas of high traffic, and an increased presence of law enforcement and emergency response personnel in the vicinity of Coast Guard Training Center Cape May. More ...
Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound to Hold New Haven Open House
The public “is invited to explore a variety of Coast Guard rescue boats and witness a Coast Guard helicopter from Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., conduct a search and rescue demonstration with a Station New Haven Rescue boat crew,” according to a release posted on the Coast Guard’s website. More ...
CGA Spring Regimental Review - Photos
The United States Coast Guard Academy's Corps of Cadets march in the final Spring Regimental Review on the Washington Parade Field at the academy in New London Tuesday May 15, 2012. This was the final review before graduation on May 16th. More ...
05/15/12
New Coastie was Rescued at Sea by CG at Age 6
Orlando Morel was 6 years old when he and his mother left Haiti on a crowded small wooden boat destined for America. Now 24, Morel remembers the blue of the ocean everywhere. And the hunger. More ...
Coast Guard Airlifts Ailing Merchant Seaman
A 23-year-old man who needed medical help was airlifted from a merchant vessel about 30 miles east of Kitty Hawk Monday, the Coast Guard said. More ...
Accident That Killed Four in Yacht Race to be Probed by U.S. Sailing
U.S. Sailing has appointed a five-person investigative team at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard of San Diego in response to the April 26 sinking of the Aegean, which was demolished near the Coronado Islands during the race. More ...
Coast Guard Aids Man in Need Near Kitty Hawk, N.C.
The 23-year-old was working for the Norfolk Express, a merchant vessel. The Coast Guard 5th District received a call at about 1 p.m., requesting help for the man, according to a Coast Guard news release. More ...
US Coast Guard Repatriates 55 Cubans
The US Coast Guard repatriated 55 Cubans and 37 Haitians who were intercepted at sea on their way to South Florida, said US authorities over the weekend. More ...
1 Person Reported Missing After Boat Accident
The Lake Stevens couple, Brent and Sarah Schilling, had been rounding the north end of Jetty Island in their inflatable Zodiac boat when they heard a man calling for help in the water, they said. More ...
Still Going Strong After 214 Years Together
When you deal with your Coast Guard pharmacist, you’re dealing with someone who has more than just medication behind the pharmacy window. There’s a whole lot of history and maybe a hurricane or an earthquake back there, too. More ...
Leader of Davy Crockett Cleanup to be Honored
The U.S. Coast Guard officer who helped choreograph last year's cleanup and dismantling of the derelict barge Davy Crockett will be honored during a regional conference this week. More ...
05/14/12
Late Rally not Enough for Coast Guard Softball
The Coast Guard Academy rallied after trailing early in Sunday's NCAA championship softball game against Eastern Connecticut State University, but ultimately lost 5-4 to close out its season. More ...
Two Disabled Vessels Helped off Monterey
Coast Guard Station Monterey received a call at about 9:30 a.m. that a disabled 20-foot boat with five persons on board was drifting toward shore off of Point Lobos. More ...
Fishing Vessel Burns, Sinks off Whidbey Island
The blaze broke out late Saturday aboard the Deep Sea vessel. The vessel sank about 6 p.m. Sunday as the Coast Guard prepared to inspect it. More ...
Police Searching for 2 Missing Boaters in Maryland
Maryland Natural Resources Police say the boaters, 41-year-old Richard L. Moore and 49-year-old Daniel V. Graves, were reported missing at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. They were last seen in an 18-foot tan camouflage Polar craft boat near Clay Island about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. More ...
U.S Coast Guard Museum Reopens
The Coast Guard Academy reopened its museum to the public this weekend, after a renovation project that lasted for one year. The newly-renovated U.S. Coast Guard Museum features a redesigned exhibit, which provides an overview of the history of the United States Coast Guard, from its early years until the present. More ...
15-Year-Old Boy Dies After Falling in the East River
The incident occurred just as the NYPD and U.S. Coast Guard were announcing the rescue of a 60-year-old man with head trauma from the Norwegian Gem cruise ship as it was leaving the city. More ...
SD-Based Coast Guard Anti-Terrorism Unit Returns Home
A San Diego-based U.S. Coast Guard anti-terrorism unit returned to Naval Station North Island on Sunday from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba following a six-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. More ...
05/11/12
Coast Guard Helps Disabled Boat off N.C. Coast
Despite winds of about 15 mph and waves up to 5 feet, the cutter rigged the boat and took it to a crew from Coast Guard Station Fort Macon in Fort Macon, N.C. That crew towed the boat to Beaufort. More ...
Career Started in the SPARS
Dorothy Kurtz was 21 and living in the Bronx, N.Y., when she enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. She was assigned to the SPARS, a nickname given to the Women's Reserve, which existed to free up men to fight overseas by allowing women to do their stateside jobs; Kurtz worked in accounting. More ...
Coast Guard Will Play Softball Winners Bracket
The Coast Guard Academy softball team will advance to a winners bracket against Eastern Connecticut State University after defeating Ithaca College in the NCAA Division III Championship on Thursday. More ...
U.S. Coast Guard to Support Abaco’s First Annual Special Olympics Torch Run
On Saturday, May 12, Abaco’s first annual Special Olympics Torch Run will be held in Marsh Harbour with a 9 a.m. start. The six mile route will begin at the airport roundabout and end at the park at the Abaco Central High School. The U.S. Embassy is lending its support to the event, represented by LTJG Karin Evelyn of the U.S. Coast Guard who will lead off the first leg of the law enforcement relay, taking the Special Olympics torch for the first two miles of the route through the streets of downtown, Marsh Harbour, Abaco. More ...
Coast Guard Valor Award Goes to Local Man
To the Cub Scouts he leads, Mark McDowell has always preached the importance of being prepared to handle emergencies. More ...
Congress Poised to Give Coast Guard More Money Than Requested for FY 2013
Regardless, Congress appears poised to provide the Coast Guard with more money than the White House requested for next year. House Republicans unveiled a homeland security budget Tuesday evening that would provide the Coast Guard with $10 billion in discretionary funding, an increase of $211.7 million above the president's request and $63 million below last year's level. More ...
Coast Guard Assists Ill Fisherman South Of Shinnecock Inlet
Shortly before 7 a.m., Coast Guard officials received a call from the Good News II, a 95-foot fishing boat out of Hampton, Virginia, requesting medical attention for a 63-year-old crew member, according to Petty Officer 2nd Class Jetta Disco, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard. At the time, the boat was about 28 nautical miles south of Shinnecock Inlet. More ...
Remembering Life Aboard Coast Guard Icebreakers
Since that post went up, about a dozen former crew members of the Glacier and other icebreakers have managed to find it and post comments reminiscing about their duty. More ...
Coast Guard Steps up Inspections of Towboats
Since a 2008 collision and oil spill near New Orleans involving an improperly licensed towboat captain, the Coast Guard has begun inspecting work boats across the nation. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues 3 After Fish Boat Ammonia Leak
The Coast Guard says it has medevaced three crew members from a Bering Sea fishing vessel that reported an ammonia leak. More ...
Scan Eagle UAS Deploying Aboard Coast Guard National Security Cutter Demonstrated for top Military Officials
Navy engineers demonstrated the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of a ship-based unmanned aerial system (UAS) for senior Coast Guard, Navy and Congressional stakeholders in an exercise on the Potomac River May 3. More ...
Coast Guard Member Convicted of Murdering Man
A member of the Coast Guard has been convicted of murdering a Queens man who was racing to flee the city because he believed someone was gunning for him, prosecutors said Thursday. More ...
The Coast Foundation Announces its 27th Annual Pacific Area Awards & Reception
The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education, welfare and morale of all Coast Guard members and their families, announced today that its 27th Annual Pacific Area Awards and Reception in tribute to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) will take place on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. More ...
On Patrol With Waesche: Boardings & Shark Fins
Those standing along the banks near the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Honolulu in early April saw a fairly common sight as Coast Guard Cutter Waesche’s crew manned the rails to render honors to the USS Arizona Memorial. To those on shore it is a common occurrence, but for those clad in Coast Guard blue, it signified the beginning of their first-ever fisheries law enforcement patrol. More ...
05/10/12
Video, Witness Describe Fatal Philly River Crash
Video footage played Monday at the opening of a trial stemming from the boat crash that killed two Hungarian tourists shows the teenage girl killed in the collision toss a deckhand her life jacket moments before the doomed vessel is driven under by an unmanned barge. More ...
Sand Choking River Mouth as CG Weekend Nears
With boating season approaching, maritime veterans are expressing concern that the mouth of the Merrimack River is unusually shallow at low tide. More ...
Coast Guard Drill on Hood Canal
The Coast Guard conducted Anti-terrorism training on Hood Canal yesterday. Commander Dale Bateman, Program Manager of the Military Force Protection Unit(MFPU) for Coast Guard District 13, says that, although the exercises are pretty dramatic to see, its actually business as usual. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Three From Sinking Fishing Boat
Three commercial fishermen were plucked from a sinking fishing boat by Coast Guard rescuers early Wednesday morning after their boat ran aground near Neah Bay. More ...
Coast Guard Sends More Helicopters to Cordova
Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak positioned assets in Cordova in preparation for the upcoming spring and summer fishing seasons in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. More ...
BP: Coast Guard Investigating Oil Sheen
This investigation is not complete. It will determine whether a responsible party can be identified and, if so, recommend how the oil should be removed from the water. More ...
Coast Guard Training Week 6: Firefighter & Pugil Stick Training
In the next segment of our coast guard training series we follow Coast Guard Recruit Company November 186 as they go through firefighter training and tag along with them as the jump in the ring and duke it out. More ...
600 Pounds of Marijuana, Hashish Found by Coast Guard
The Coast Guard has detained two smuggling suspects and recovered about 600 pounds of marijuana and hashish after stopping their 15-foot boat off the South Florida coast, the agency said Wednesday. More ...
Coast Guard Softball Begins Play Today in NCAA Tournament
The fifth-seeded Coast Guard Academy softball team will begin play in the NCAA Division III tournament's Mansfield Regional beginning at 1:30 p.m. today at Eastern Connecticut State University with a matchup against No. 4 Ithaca. More ...
Adm. Papp Testifies at Senate Appropriations Hearing
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp testified before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Homeland Security Subcommittee, about the Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2013 (FY 2013) budget today. More ...
Yoga for Life
The Coast Guard’s Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team members scale cargo ships, dig through the holds of fishing vessels and board unsteady go-fasts bobbing in the ocean. They seize narcotics being smuggled into the United States – more than two tons of cocaine already this year – and combat piracy near Somalia. More ...
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