PHOTO: Cleveland-based Coast Guardsman wins triathlon gold at Gay Games 9
Lt. Hillary Allegretti, a marine safety officer and public affairs officer at Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Cleveland, stands in front of the Coast Guard's Cleveland Moorings Building, Aug. 11, 2014,...
View ArticlePHOTO: Coast Guardsman, South Huntington-native wins triathlon gold at Gay...
Lt. Hillary Allegretti, a marine safety officer and public affairs officer at Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Cleveland, stands in front of the Coast Guard's Cleveland Moorings Building, Aug. 11, 2014,...
View ArticlePhoto Release: Coast Guard responds to grounded vessel in Juneau, Alaska
The motor vessel Pacific Queen grounded at Harris Harbor in Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 12, 2014. Coast Guard pollution responders arrived on scene, observed a small sheen and maintains an active role in...
View ArticleCoast Guard, state, local agencies respond to overloaded chemical tank near...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard, state and local first responders are responding Wednesday to an overloaded tank containing sodium hydroxide in Norfolk along the Elizabeth River. Norfolk Fire Department...
View ArticleCoast Guard responds to multiple vessel collision near New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard is investigating a multiple vessel collision on the Mississippi River near Gretna, early Wednesday. Watchstanders with Coast Guard Sector New Orleans command center...
View ArticleCoast Guard to conduct Operation Mystery Sheen to combat pollution
LOS ANGELES – The Coast Guard will be conducting Operation Mystery Sheen for the next month throughout the Cabrillo, Calif., and Wilmington, Calif., areas. Oil pollution that can cause a sheen on the...
View ArticleU.S., Canadian Coast Guards, Macomb County Sheriff rescue man overdue since...
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard and the Macomb County, Michigan, Sheriff's Marine Division combined efforts to rescue a 31-year-old man aboard a 16-foot boat in Lake St. Clair...
View ArticleCoast Guard, federal, state, local agencies respond to chemical leak near...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard, federal, state and local first responders are responding Wednesday to a sodium hydroxide chemical leak in Norfolk along the Elizabeth River. It was initially reported...
View ArticleAnchors, seas and maple leaves: U.S., Canadian coast guard conduct joint...
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Carr, an aviation survival technician assigned to U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles, Wash., is lowered from an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter onto the deck of Canadian...
View ArticleUPDATE: Coast Guard reopens river to vessel traffic
NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard Captain of the Port, New Orleans, has reopened the Mississippi River to all traffic transiting around the International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) between mile marker 96 and...
View ArticleCoast Guard investigates death of mariner in Hurricane Sound, Maine
VINALHAVEN, MAINE- The Coast Guard is investigating the death of a mariner discovered in the water alongside his unmanned fishing boat in Hurricane Sound.At 1:43pm, Coast Guard Station Rockland...
View ArticleCoast Guard assists Provincetown IV Ferry near Scituate, Massachusetts
BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews assisted the crew and passengers aboard the Provincetown IV Ferry, which was disabled near Scituate, Massachusetts, Wednesday. Watchstanders at the Sector Boston...
View ArticleEmergency beacon, preparedness save mariner off Diamond Head
Editor's note: For an audio file of the mayday call and a graphic of the search area click on the icon above. HONOLULU — The Coast Guard rescued a man in a life raft after his sailboat sank...
View ArticleInjured man medically evacuated from container ship 78 miles offshore
Click the image above to view and download video of the medevac. CHARLESTON, S.C. – A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Facility Charleston hoisted an injured man off a container ship 78 miles east...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 4 after boat hits Milwaukee breakwall
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard rescued four men after the 30-foot vessel they were aboard struck the breakwall on the north side of the Milwaukee Harbor entrance late Thursday evening. The names of those...
View ArticlePHOTO RELEASE: Kris Kristofferson attends son's Coast Guard boot camp...
Singer, actor and songwriter Kris Kristofferson hands Jesse Kristofferson, his son, a certificate during the graduation ceremony of Alpha-190 at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., Aug....
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 164 migrants in the span of a week, urges safety at sea
Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark rescued 100 Haitian migrants from a grossly overloaded sail freighter in Bahamian waters and safely embarked them onto the cutter on August...
View ArticleCoast Guard Auxiliary rescues mariners near Homer, Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Auxiliarist and Coast Guard Cutter Roanoke Island crewmembers rescued mariners aboard a disabled vessel 20 miles southwest of Homer Friday morning.The Auxiliarist and...
View ArticleUpdate: Coast Guard, Lee County EMS medevac man from Back Bay, Fla.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A man was medevaced from a vessel near Matanzas Pass in Fort Myers Beach, Florida by Coast Guard and Lee County, Florida, Emergency Medical Service crews, Friday. At...
View ArticleCoast Guard, AMVER vessels assist tanker adrift 700 miles from Oregon coast
Coast Guard air and cutter forces continue to assist the 22-person crew of a 485-foot, Bahamian-flagged chemical tanker after a fire in the main engineroom disabled the vessel, leaving it without...
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