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U. S. Coast Guard Morning News Digest
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05/14/08
Coast Guard Backs Down, Allows Officer to Refuse Abortion-Based Vaccine
Coast Guard officials have backed down in the face of pressure from a pro-life law firm that recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Coast Guard officer who, officials told him, must submit to a vaccine that was derived based on fetal tissue from abortions. More ...
Coast Guard to Re-Enact Katrina Rescue Operations
As part of the third annual Ark-La-Tex Water Resource Festival, the U.S. Coast Guard will re-enact the Katrina rescue operations from 2005 at noon on Saturday on the Red River near the foot of the Texas Street Bridge in Shreveport. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Stranded Surfer
With the winds being as strong as they were on Tuesday, surfers were out in force at local beaches. More ...
CG Rescues Four From Eight-Foot Seas
Four people were rescued by the crew of a Coast Guard cutter after their 38-foot sailboat began taking on water approximately 200-miles east of Charleston, S.C. More ...
Coast Guard Helps Find Missing Diver
A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans rescue helicopter crew located a missing diver 30 miles south of Grand Isle, La. More ...
CG Medevacs Injured Boater
A Coast Guard rescue crew aboard a 25-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach, N.C., medevaced an injured man from a 28-foot sailing vessel in the Intracoastal Waterway 12 miles north of Wrightsville Beach. More ...
Coast Guard Investigates Fatal Accident off Del. Coast
A liftboat that foundered off the Delaware coast in heavy seas, leaving one of two crewmen dead, was exempt from regulations for that type of vessel because it was being used for research purposes, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday as they began an investigation. More ...
1 Dead, 6 Rescued Amid Flurry of Distress Calls
One man died and six others were rescued Tuesday from two boats off the coast of La Push, Clallam County, the Coast Guard reported. More ...
Vessel Cited in '07 Investigation
The distress call went out at 7:55 a.m. on Monday. A sudden storm had hit. Waves were reaching 15 feet and winds were gusting over 50 miles per hour. The Russell W. Peterson, a research vessel with two men aboard, was taking on water. More ...
Coast Guard Honors Ranger Rescuers
Coast Guard crew members involved in the rescue of the Alaska Ranger crew will be honored this week in Kodiak. More ...
No Clues to Explain how Boaters Disappeared
Instead of celebrating, his family remained in seclusion at their Oceanside home, trying to understand how he and his fiancee disappeared from his fishing boat last week. More ...
Fallen Woman was in Abusive Relationship, Mom Says
The woman who fell to her apparent death off a cruise ship on Mother's Day off the coast of Atlantic City was the victim of an abusive relationship. More ...
05/13/08
One Killed in Boat Accident
A crew member of a research vessel died Monday after his boat was caught in the storms. A 64-foot research vessel owned by Aqua Survey Inc. grounded on Bethany Beach around noon, but not before Coast Guard members had to rescue two crew members. More ...
Mid-Atlantic Storm Cuts Power, Prompts Evacuations
A wet, gusty storm that lashed the mid-Atlantic states Monday forced evacuations, flooded roads, fanned the flames of a deadly New Jersey fire and wrecked a brand-new research vessel off the Delaware coast, killing a crew member. More ...
Coast Guard Opens Doors
Twenty four hours, seven days a week the United States Coastal Guard protects Rochester's waters. It's a job the 45 employees at the station take pride in. Even though the fast ferry has moved out of the port, the Coast Guard still has their hands full. More ...
Coast Guard Safety Day in Oak Island
Coast Guard Officers are urging people to be careful on the water, so they are hosting a safety day this weekend in Oak Island. More ...
After 100 Years, Coast Guard Gets New Station
Coast Guard Station Marquette is scheduled to host a groundbreaking ceremony at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 14, 2008. More ...
CG Helo Crew Makes 5th Rescue of Day
A rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City rescued a sailor today after his sailboat ran aground off the coast of Ocean City, Md. That was the fifth rescue for the air crew on May 12. More ...
Passenger Overboard on Norwegian Dawn
Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn departed New York City yesterday right on time at 4 p.m. EST en route to Bermuda -- but was forced to perform a search and rescue mission nearly four hours into its voyage because of a report of a passenger overboard. More ...
Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Lobsterman
The U.S. Coast Guard Monday night called off the search for missing lobsterman Christopher Tobey. More ...
CG Repatriates 193 Haitian Migrants
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless repatriated 193 Haitian migrants to Cap-Haiten, Haiti, Monday. More ...
Fishing Vessel Submerged at Pier
Coast Guard Station Jones Beach received the initial call that the Miss Edith, a clamming dredge owned by Bayhead Inc., Manahawkin, N.J., was submerged in roughly 20-feet of water and leaked 100-gallons of diesel fuel in the Hog Island Channel. The owner reported he had deployed a boom around the vessel to stop the leakage. More ...
Standoff Ends Peacefully
Officers moved in quickly, closing the 190 in both directions, leaving hundreds of cars and trucks stuck on the highway. Coast Guard officers cleared all boats away from the shore. More ...
05/12/08
Spirit of Columbia Escorted by Coast Guard
A 143-foot cruise ship, Spirit of Columbia, had to be escorted by the Coast Guard after the ship reportedly lost power to both generators and was operating on one of two propellor engines. More ...
Women's Rowing Hosts ECAC Championship
The U.S. Coast Guard earned a first-place finish with a time of 7:05.371. More ...
Boat Capsizes; Nine People Rescued
A group of nine people were thrown into Tampa Bay after their boat capsized. More ...
Coast Guard Auxiliary a Welcome Presence
It was a good thing to host a regular Bingo night 30 years ago. More ...
Coast Guard Saves Men in Capsized Boat
Three boaters were rescued by the Coast Guard Sunday after their 22-foot fishing boat capsized about 8 miles east of St. Augustine. More ...
Coast Guard Hoists Injured Snowmachiner
A Coast Guard rescue helicopter was in the right place at the right time Saturday while on a patrol over Prince William Sound. More ...
Boater Rescues 2 Capsized Kayakers
The U.S. Coast Guard said two kayaks capsized in Greenwich Bay and two people were treated for mild hypothermia. More ...
Coast Guard Cutter Takes a Break
The Coast Guard cutter Healy is making a quick stop in Juneau after a two-month mission in the Bering Sea. More ...
Coast Guard Searches for Man in Gulf of Mexico
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who fell off of a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues 15 From Boat Fire
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 15 people from a boat that caught fire Saturday evening in Bon Secour Bay, authorities said. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues 6 Paddlers off Maui
Six people were rescued early yesterday morning after their outrigger canoe overturned in the Alenuihaha Channel 14 miles south of Maui, the Coast Guard said. More ...
Coast Guard Academy Honors Ex-Secretary Baker
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy honored former Secretary of State James A. Baker III as its 14th Hedrick Fellow at a dinner, address and reception last month. More ...
Search Ends for Missing Couple
The search for a missing Oceanside couple ended yesterday evening, a day after their empty fishing boat washed ashore near Rosarito, Mexico, Coast Guard officials said. More ...
USCG Cutters Visit
Three more US Coast Guard cutters are scheduled to visit Grand Cayman this month. More ...
05/09/08
Coast Guard Accepts New Cutter
After repeated delays and cost overruns, the Coast Guard on Thursday accepted the first in a series of massive ships built by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman that are the cornerstone of a multibillion-dollar fleet modernization. More ...
CG Medevacs Man South of Freeport
The Coast Guard medevaced a 42-year-old man from an oil tanker approximately 30 miles south of Freeport, Texas. More ...
Man Involved in Boating Accident Dies
The husband of an elderly woman who died in a boating accident earlier in the week in Rockledge has succumbed to his own injuries. More ...
CG Suspends Search for 3 Missing Men
The Coast Guard has suspended the search for three fishermen in the vicinity of Stevenson, Wash., approximately 30 miles east of Vancouver, Wash. More ...
Dead Whale Stuck Under Pier
A dead whale wedged beneath a pier was spotted by swimmers Thursday, but no government agency raced to remove the foul-smelling mammal. More ...
Admiral Transfers Helm of Command
Rear Adm. Manson K. Brown will be relieved as Commander, Coast Guard Maintenance and Logistics Command Pacific by Capt. Robert E. Day, during a change of command ceremony. More ...
05/08/08
Coast Guard Nabs 10 Smugglers in a Day
Coast Guard and Custom and Border Protection Air and Marine crews working in tandem along Florida's coastlines have intercepted 10 suspected smugglers from Key West, Fla., to Miami during the last 24 hours and will transfer those individuals to CBP Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators for further questioning. More ...
Coast Guard Pilots Prepare for Tests
U.S. Coast Guard helicopter pilots are preparing for a national evaluation and at the same time flying more often out of the Arcata/Eureka Airport later at night to meet minimum standards for nighttime operations. More ...
Cheney to Speak to USCGA Grads
The Coast Guard Academy says Vice President Dick Cheney will speak at its commencement ceremony May 21. More ...
CG Searches for Three Missing Fishermen
Coast Guard Sector Portland is responding to a report of three missing fishermen in the vicinity of Stevenson, Wash., approximately 30 miles east of Vancouver, Wash. More ...
Alaska Native Receives CG Award
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Willard Milam, an aviation survival technician from Soldotna, Alaska, was awarded the Admiral Chester R. Bender Award on May 2, 2008 for his participation in the rescue of four fishermen on Feb. 9, 2007. More ...
Emergency Responders Undertake Search and Rescue Exercise
The island's emergency responders took part in a search and rescue (SAR) exercise coordinated by the United States Coast Guard. More ...
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