Stephen L. Colby Response crews shift to salvage operations
LECLAIRE, Iowa – The Stephen L. Colby Unified Command are shifting from lightering operations to salvage operations, Sunday. Response crews have been preparing the vessel Stephen L. Colby for salvage...
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VIDEO: Coast Guard helicopter crew hoists 3 people off disabled fishing boat
Click the image above to view and download the video. ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – The video above shows a Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifting three people from a disabled fishing boat in Nassau Sound,...
View Article150 gallons of fuel, oil removed from grounded vessel
SAVANNAH, Ga. – Coast Guard crews oversaw the removal of 150 gallons of fuel and engine oil from the fishing vessel Little D on the south tip of Jekyll Island, Ga., Sunday, effectively mitigating the...
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MULTIMEDIA RELEASE: Stephen L. Colby Response crews shift to salvage operations
LECLAIRE, Iowa - Crews for the Stephen L. Colby Response continue to work around the clock, focusing on the safety of the public and responders involved, on continually reducing the impact to the...
View ArticleCoast Guard oversees spill clean up in Brownsville Ship Channel
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Coast Guard is overseeing the cleanup of 500 gallons of diesel Monday, that spilled from a tugboat in the Brownsville Ship Channel near the turning basin. At approximately...
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Coast Guard Cutter Decisive returns from 32-day patrol in Windward Passage
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Decisive returned to its homeport after a 32-day patrol deployed to the Windward Passage to assist the 7th Coast Guard District in illegal migration...
View ArticleCoast Guard Cutter Midgett returns after a successful 64-day counter-narcotic...
SEATTLE — The 150-person crew of Coast Guard Cutter Midgett is scheduled to return to homeport at Coast Guard Base Seattle at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, after a successful 64-day counter-narcotics patrol...
View ArticleGood Samaritan saves 2 after collision near Port O’Connor
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A good Samaritan rescued two people after a collision between a recreational boat and a tug Sunday in the Intracoastal Waterway about 3 miles southwest of Port O'Connor. They...
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Video: Coast Guard medevacs injured kayaker
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW THE VIDEO: ALAMEDA, Calif. —An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescue crew from Coast Guard Station San Francisco medically evacuated a man suffering from stomach pain and dehydration...
View ArticleCoast Guard seeks information about disabled Napali Coast boater
HONOLULU – The Coast Guard is seeking the public’s help in identifying two boaters who were seen in a possible distress situation off Kalalau Beach, Kauai Monday. The Coast Guard Sector Command Center...
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Chicago's Christmas Ship Committee, Coast Guard set for annual re-enactment,...
Members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw begin loading more than 1,200 Christmas trees onto the ship in its home port of Cheboygan, Mich., Nov. 25, 2013. The Mackinaw will arrive in Chicago Dec. 6,...
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U.S. icebreaker deploys to McMurdo, Antarctica
Two tugboats escort Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a 399-foot Polar Class Icebreaker homeported in Seattle, through Elliott Bay after the cutter got underway from Coast Guard Base Seattle, Dec. 3,...
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Stephen L. Colby Response salvage, cleanup operations continue
LECLAIRE, Iowa – Salvage, cleanup and environmental protection efforts continue in response to the sunken towboat Stephen L. Colby on the Mississippi River near LeClaire, Iowa, Tuesday. A unified...
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Photo Release: Coast Guard provides outreach to village residents on Kodiak...
Petty Officer 2nd Class Sylvia Flores, a health services technician, from Coast Guard Base Kodiak provides vision screenings to children in Port Lions, Alaska, as part of the annual outreach to the...
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PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard offloads more than $18 million of cocaine in St....
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Nantucket, hmeported in St. Petersburg, offloaded more than $18 million in cocaine Wednesday at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg....
View ArticleCoast Guard medically evacuates ailing fishing vessel crewmember
NEW YORK – The Coast Guard medically evacuated an ailing crewmember from the fishing vessel Raiders 50 miles south of Moriches, N.Y., today. A communications watchstander at Coast Guard Sector New...
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Photos and Video available: Coast Guard intercepts 5,000 pounds of marijuana,...
To download high resolution photos and caption information, click on the photos below To download video and caption information, click on the thumbnail image below SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Coast Guard...
View ArticleChristmas Service of Lessons and Carols at Coast Guard Academy
NEW LONDON, Conn. – The Coast Guard Academy will hold its annual Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols Dec. 11 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Memorial Chapel. The service, set to start at 6:45...
View ArticleCoast Guard assists 3 boaters, tows disabled boat near Ketchikan, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard assisted three boaters aboard a disabled vessel about 12 miles west of Ketchikan, Tuesday. A 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew from Coast Guard Station Ketchikan towed the...
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PHOTO RELEASE: Iowa State representatives test river water for Stephen L....
LECLAIRE, Iowa - Glass bottles are labeled and await samples of Mississippi River water, taken by environmental specialists with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, near the Interstate 80 Bridge...
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