Coast Guard suspends search for missing fisherman off Big Island
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard suspended the search Monday for a missing fisherman off the Big Island. The 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Kiska, homeported in Hilo, an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew and an...
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Coast Guard rescues 6 aboard flooding boat 30 miles offshore
Click the image above for an audio file of the radio distress call. ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – A Coast Guard boatcrew from Station Ponce De Leon Inlet in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, rescued 6 people who...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 5 from platform in Gulf of Mexico
HOUSTON — Five men were rescued Monday from an unmanned platform about 40 miles southeast of the Texas/Louisiana border, after their fishing boat began taking on water. The men made it to the unmanned...
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Coast Guard celebrates Auxiliary 75-year anniversary
Today marks the 75-year anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Congress founded the auxiliary in 1939 as an organization of volunteers to promote boating safety and to augment the Coast Guard....
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Feature Release: Celebrating 75 years of Auxiliary in the Pacific Northwest
Rear Adm. Richard Gromlich, commander of the 13th Coast Guard District, presents Dean Wimer, commodore of the 13th Coast Guard District Auxiliary, a plaque to honor the Coast Guard Auxiliary for 75...
View ArticleBody of missing free diver recovered near Turtle Bay
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard has recovered the body of a missing free diver approximately 10 miles offshore of Turtle Bay. Nicholas Spotkaeff was located by a good Samaritan who was boating offshore....
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 2 from water near Grand Haven, Mich.
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard rescued two women from Lake Michigan near the north pier head in Grand Haven, Michigan, after their kayaks overturned, Monday afternoon. The names of the women are not...
View ArticleCoast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, NC, to change command
WHO: U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Stephen P. Metruck, 5th District commander, Capt. Joseph P. Kelly, outgoing Air Station Elizabeth City commanding officer and Capt. R. Scott Craig, incoming air station...
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Coast Guard, FWC, local agencies gear up for 2014 Operation Dry Water
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Coast Guard crews in the area are scheduled to assist the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and local law enforcement agencies to provide an increased presence...
View ArticleCoast Guard assists man after boat starts taking on water in Lake Michigan
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard rescued a man after his boat began taking on water approximately 1 mile west of the New Buffalo pier heads in Lake Michigan, Monday evening. The man's name is not being...
View ArticleCoast Guard assists 3 after collision on St. Clair River
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard assisted 3 boaters after their 20-foot boat struck a buoy on the St. Clair River near Marysville, Michigan, late Monday evening. The names of the boaters are not being...
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Coast Guard Response Boat-Medium Project Resident Office holds...
Rear Adm. Joseph Vojvodich (middle), Coast Guard Program Executive Officer and Director of Acquisition Programs, Cmdr. Frank Peirce (right), current executive officer and new commanding officer of...
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Coast Guard, Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue, Atlantic Beach Ocean Rescue,...
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – Members of Coast Guard Station Mayport, Florida; Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Ocean Rescue; Atlantic Beach Ocean Rescue and Lifeguards Without Borders participated in an...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues boaters aboard sinking boat near Aberdeen, Md.
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard rescued two people Tuesday aboard a sinking boat east of Aberdeen. A crewmember aboard a 36-foot boat contacted Coast Guard Sector Baltimore Command Center watchstanders at...
View ArticleCoast Guard, partners searching for missing boaters in Southeast Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard and local search and rescue crews in Southeast Alaska are searching for two missing boaters who were reported overdue near Ketchikan Monday evening. Coast Guard Sector...
View ArticleCoast Guard, partners rescue missing boaters in Southeast Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard, state and local search and rescue crews in Southeast Alaska rescued two missing boaters who were stranded near Ketchikan Tuesday afternoon. After being provided a...
View ArticleCoast Guard searching for missing kayaker near Anchorage, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard is searching for a missing kayaker who was reported overdue near Anchorage Tuesday evening. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders received a report...
View ArticleMissing kayaker located near Anchorage, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — A kayaker reported overdue near Anchorage was located Wednesday morning. Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders were informed by the missing kayaker’s wife that the kayaker ran...
View ArticleCoast Guard units participating in Operation Dry Water to decrease threat of...
Coast Guard launches awareness campaign to reach out to boaters CLEVELAND – Members of the Coast Guard 9th District will participating in Operation Dry Water this weekend as part of a nationally...
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An Appel a day keeps the auditor away
Lt. Karen Appel, budget officer of the 13th Coast Guard District, competed against high-performing military and civilian financial officers from all branches of the Armed Forces to earn the...
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