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U. S. Coast Guard Morning News Digest
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02/03/12
Station Michigan City Advances OIC
Rebecca Polzin, a native of Preston, Minn., and current officer-in-charge of Coast Guard Station Michigan City, Ind., was advanced to the rate of senior chief petty officer in the U.S. Coast Guard during a ceremony held at Station Michigan City, Feb. 1. More ...
Auxiliary Meeting Helps Mission Readiness
On Jan. 27 Coast Guard Vice Commandant Vice Adm. Sally Brice-O’Hara addressed the Coast Guard Auxiliary’s National Training Meeting (N-Train) in St. Louis, Mo. More ...
GSA Revises Plan for Coast Guard Headquarters Due to Budget Cuts
The General Services Administration will be cutting even more corners to finish the new Coast Guard headquarters on time, according to a spending plan sent to Congress Jan. 27. More ...
New London Tube: Coast Guard Academy 800 Meter Race
But although these stories occasionally have a photo provided as well, it's sometimes easy to forget just how hard these athletes are working. This video of the 800 meter race at the Coast Guard Academy's indoor track race last Saturday is a rather nice illustration of their efforts. More ...
Man Suffering Seizures Rescued in the Gulf
A crewman who suffered seizures aboard a fishing vessel 67 miles west of Tarpon Springs was rescued by the Coast Guard Thursday. More ...
Authorities Find Small Boat off of SB Coast
Deputies, the U.S. Coast Guard and Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol personnel recovered the boat after receiving numerous calls reporting the vehicle off Fernald Point in Montecito. Authorities found the empty boat approximately 200 yards off the coast as well as several life vests on the shore nearby, suggesting the passengers made it to land. More ...
Coast Guard: Bayfield Ice 'Extremely Hazardous'
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that ice conditions on Lake Superior in the Bayfield area are extremely hazardous due to warmer temperatures and shifting winds. More ...
Retired Military Officers Push for Va. Preschool Funds
Speaking to reporters aboard the battleship Wisconsin, the officers - two former Air Force generals and a former Coast Guard admiral - pointed to research that shows more than a quarter of Virginia high school graduates who seek to join the Army can't pass the service's basic entrance exam, and roughly three-quarters of all Americans ages 17 to 24 aren't even eligible to try, More ...
Marina del Rey Deputies Seize Bales of Pot Floating in Ocean
A recreational boater headed to Marina del Rey on his way back from Santa Barbara came across five floating bales of pot about noon Wednesday and called the U.S. Coast Guard, said Sgt. Michael Carriles of the sheriff's Marina del Rey station. More ...
Coast Guard Medevacs Ailing Cruise Ship Passenger
An aircrew from U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego airlifted a passenger in need of urgent medical care from a cruise ship approximately 30 miles southwest of San Diego Thursday evening. More ...
02/02/12
Coast Guard to Approve LNG-Fueled Ships Case-by-Case
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) must judge all designs for U.S.-flagged LNG-fueled ships. Vessel owners are increasingly considering LNG as a replacement fuel to marine diesel and heavy fuel oil, also called bunker fuel. More ...
Coast Guard Continues to Monitor Fuel Spill on Savannah River
The Coast Guard continues to coordinate with the Motor Vessel Maersk Dellys in response to the report of a fuel leak at Garden City Terminal in Savannah, Tuesday, Jan. 31. More ...
Nine Rescued by Coast Guard After 48 Hours Adrift
After almost 48 hours adrift with no food or water, nine persons, including three children, were rescued by the US Coast Guard off West Palm Beach. More ...
Army Teams With US Coast Guard on the Aircraft Towing System
The U.S. Army teamed with the U.S. Coast Guard on the Standard Aircraft Towing System joint venture during a roll-off ceremony at the NMC-Wollard facility in Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 1. More ...
Englewood Men Rescued 13 Miles off Stump Pass Coast
The fishermen were spotted about 13 miles off Stump Pass sitting on their boat's hull by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Diamondback, an 87-foot patrol boat, according to a Coast Guard statement. More ...
2012 Ice Season Begins
Icebergs, bergy bits or growlers. Whatever you call them, these massive chunks of ice – some the size of a small country – all pose a threat for ships transiting the North Atlantic. But thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol and their partners, mariners will have the information they need to stay safe, and out of harm’s way. More ...
Tangled Whale Vanishes Before Help Arrives
The U.S. Coast Guard sent a boat and helicopter hoping to find the whale. A marine specialist from NOAA was on the boat and was hoping to disentangle the whale, but by the time they arrived on scene the whale had vanished. More ...
02/01/12
Coast Guard to Find New Home at Ellington Field
A groundbreaking ceremony will take place at Ellington Field for a new facility to house the U.S. Coast Guard. More ...
Body of Missing Waldron Island Woman Found
The body of Dorothy Shayler, 38, was found on Waldron Island on Jan. 28. Officials believe Shayler committed suicide, but are awaiting autopsy results. Shayler had been missing since Oct.17. More ...
Coast Guard Responds to Fuel Spill at Georgia Port
The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Savannah was responding to reports of a fuel spill Tuesday morning at Garden City Terminal in Savannah. More ...
Cuba Can't be Trusted With Oil, Florida Says
The Cuban government can't be trusted to oversee the safety of oil drilling activity planned 90 miles from the Florida coast, a state official said. More ...
U.S. Coast Guard is Cost-Effective
Intensive U.S. Coast Guard training like that we reported last week is a reassuring reminder that although we live in a dangerous place, there are polished professionals ready to help us in our times of need. More ...
Ohio-Native Coast Guardsman Among 3 Recognized as Coast Guard's 'Shipmates of the Week'
An East Liverpool, Ohio, native and two others were recognized as the Coast Guard's 'Shipmates of the Week' on Friday for helping rescue five fishermen off the southern coast of Jamaica earlier this month. More ...
Laying to Rest a Coast Guard Veteran
The Greatest Generation came of age during a world at war and created a lasting legacy that has shaped us all and the communities we live in. One of the members of this generation was Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Frank L. Spatuzzi, a talented ballplayer who felt a higher calling and made the decision to leave a game he loved. That higher calling was service to his country. More ...
01/31/12
DoD Mulls TRICARE Changes for Future Retirees
The Pentagon could require future working-age retirees to take employer-provided health care as a way to tackle the Defense Department's cost growth, one top official said Monday. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Three From Sunken Crab Boat
The crew of a Coast Guard MH-60 Dolphin helicopter rescued three men after a crab boat sank approximately 11 miles off the coast of Crescent City, Calif., Jan. 27. More ...
Coast Guard to Hold Hearings on Tidal Power Plan
The Coast Guard is holding a pair of meetings this week to hear from mariners about a tidal energy proposal in Cobscook Bay at Maine's eastern tip. More ...
Experts: US Ill-Prepared for Oil Spill off Cuba
The comments at a congressional subcommittee hearing in the Miami Beach suburb of Sunny Isles come more than a week after a huge oil rig leased by Spanish energy giant Repsol YPF arrived in Cuban waters to begin drilling a deep water exploratory well. More ...
Coast Guard Advanced Helicopter Rescue School Hosts Joint Agency Training in Astoria
The U.S. Coast Guard Advanced Helicopter Rescue School (AHRS) in Astoria hosted the first joint agency class of its kind Jan. 23-27, strengthening partnerships and sharing knowledge with agencies with similar search and rescue missions on the west coast of North America. More ...
Coast Guard Cutter and Tanker Reach Open Water
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy and the Russian tanker Renda entered ice-free waters in the southern Bering Sea on Sunday afternoon, according to news report. That’s a relief, and those who pulled off the successful delivery of fuel to ice-bound Nome deserve congratulations. More ...
Coos Bay Man Drowns in Charleston Harbor
At about noon on Sunday, the vessel 'Idaho' was sailing out into the bay with three people on board, when 43 year old Robert Partipilo fell overboard, near the entrance to Charleston Harbor. More ...
Airbus Delivers 13th USCG Ocean Sentry
The Coast Guard is using the Ocean Sentry to replace its aging fleet of HU-25 Guardian jets and some older HC-130H aircraft. The Ocean Sentry is based on Airbus’s CN235 tactical airlifter, more than 250 of which are operated by 27 countries. More ...
01/30/12
Coast Guard Airlifts Man to Hospital
About 6:15 p.m., the Coast Guard received a report that a 54-year-old man was suffering from the symptoms of a heart attack aboard the Stoltz Topaz, which was about 11 miles off the coast of Galveston. More ...
Coast Guard City Celebration a Blast
The designation is given based on support to local Coast Guard stations and its members. Clearwater is home to two posts including the Air Station Clearwater, the busiest in the nation and Station Sand Key. More ...
Coast Guard Frees 2 Mich. Vessels From Icy Waters
The U.S. Coast Guard has freed two ships trapped by ice in the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas. More ...
Coast Guard Searching for Man who may Have Fallen off BC Ferries Vessel
Canadian and US Coast Guard crews are scouring an area of the Georgia Strait for a man who may have fallen off a BC Ferries vessel. More ...
Remembering Lives That Ended Tragically and too Soon
Retired Master Chief Petty Officer John Chassereau calls the service to order. His continued passion started by his father, also a retired master chief, is the glue that keeps this tradition appropriately in full view and is the epitome of our core values. We owe him and his father and the local chief’s mess a debt we cannot repay. More ...
01/27/12
One More CG Role: Helping Animals
There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the Coast Guard. While search and rescue and law enforcement tend to dominate the headlines, that doesn’t mean the Coast Guard isn’t performing other missions in communities across our nation. More ...
Cutter SPAR Starts Drydock Period
The Coast Guard Cutter SPAR crew commenced a two-month drydock maintenance period at the Fairhaven Shipyard in Bellingham, Washington Jan. 10. More ...
Coast Guard Needs Your Help to Identify Hoax Distress Caller
The Coast Guard Investigative Service is asking for help locating the person responsible for sending a series of false distress calls. They started in 2010 over marine band radio. More ...
Coast Guard Crew Runs Med Supply Drop
The crew of a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft from Air Station Sacramento completed a medical supply drop to a 950-foot Greek flagged bulk carrier Jan. 26 off the coast of Mexico. More ...
San Diego Man Charged for Faking Mayday Calls.
The first incident reportedly happened in 2007. The indictment says he falsely transmitted that he was bailing water out of his boat and he was in trouble. More ...
Coast Guard Men's Basketball Picks up First NEWMAC Win
The Coast Guard Academy split a pair of games with Wheaton College on Wednesday, winning the men's competition and losing the women's competition. More ...
Coast Guard Foundation Establishes new Fund
Established to benefit the morale, education and wellness of Coast Guard units and their families in Northern Michigan, the fund also thanks and honors the Foundation’s retiring board chairman, Ross E. Roeder. Chairman of the Board for the Coast Guard Foundation since 2005, Mr. Roeder retired at the end of 2011. More ...
Coast Guard Crew Serves Different Mission at Our Daily Bread in Pascagoula
Although crew members of the Pascagoula-based U.S. Coast Guard cutter Decisive were not fighting drug smugglers on Thursday, they were on another important mission. More ...
On Thin Ice
While scores of boaters in colder parts of the country have put their boats into storage until spring, many still rely on their vessels for hunting, fishing and transportation. But what happens when a lake or river freezes over and a snowmobiler falls through the ice, or fishermen become stranded on an ice floe? More ...
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