June 2009
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Coast Guard, ferry rescues 33 from vessel taking... →
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Thirty-three people were rescued from a vessel taking on water in the vicinity of Suisun Bay near Concord by the Coast Guard, Contra Costa Sherriff’s Department, and the Good Samaritan passenger ferry Intintoli at approximately 1 p.m.
Coast Guard Sector San Francisco received a distress call from the motor vessel Farallones, a 85-foot sea scout training vessel, at 11:55 a.m. The...
Mackerel Rocks Rescue →
At 5.30pm on Monday 29th June, RNLI Bangor Lifeboat launched to rescue two young men who had become stranded by rising tides.
Crew from Bangor Lifeboat had just finished a 2 hour training exercise when they received an emergency alert from Belfast Coastguard requesting they rescue two young men who had become marooned by rising tides.
Volunteer crew quickly proceeded to an area of coastline,...
Three people rescued off Brunswick, Ga., boat... →
BRUNSWICK, Ga. - The Coast Guard rescued three people from the disabled 37-foot vessel, Cheeky 2, Tuesday morning approximately 150-miles east of Brunswick.
The Coast Guard received a distress call via satellite phone at approximately 7:45 p.m. Monday, after the Cheeky 2 reportedly experienced engine failure. Due to limited communication with the boaters, the Cheeky 2’s emergency position...
Search called off for boater missing in Long... →
STAMFORD — A 52-year-old city man went missing over the weekend, and his unmanned sailboat turned up in Long Island Sound.
The search for David McKinley, an avid boater, teacher and community theater volunteer, was called off Sunday evening pending new developments, the Coast Guard said. Stamford police said he last was seen working on his sailboat on Cummings Pier before 11 a.m....
Rescue 21 Communications System Introduced in... →
The U.S. Coast Guard formally accepted and introduced their new Rescue 21 advanced communications system at a ceremony today at Sector North Carolina.
This new capability, which will eventually be introduced nationwide, increases the ability of Coast Guard men and women to execute all of their missions, especially the search and rescue mission, with greater agility and efficiency. Today’s...
New yacht sinks after falling off freighter →
US Coast Guards are investigating how a brand new 56ft yacht managed to fall off a freight vessel and sink in San Diego harbour. The yacht was one of a number being moved to the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal on 27 June when the incident happened
The yacht has been checked by Coast Guards for diesel leaks and will be refloated this week. Lt Josh Nelson, a US Coast Guard spokesman, said that the...
SARSAT Rescues Weekly Update →
Here are some of the cases over the past two weeks that involved the use of emergency distress beacons and the SARSAT (Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking) System. A SARSAT rescue is counted when a beacon alert was the primary means of notification or primary locating method for a rescue.Click link for more.
America's Tall Ship departs Charleston: Photos &... →
The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, known as “America’s Tall Ship,” home ported in New London, Conn., departed Charleston Monday afternoon to continue its participation in Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge 2009.
The present day Eagle has become a recognizable symbol of the U.S. Coast Guard. Known throughout the world for its history of belonging to the Germans, the Eagle was originally a...
One dead after barge strikes anchored pleasure... →
One boater was killed when a barge struck an anchored pleasure vessel in Watts Bar Lake, the Knoxville News Sentinal reported. The barge was being propelled by the towing vessel Bearcat. Two other boaters were able to swim to safety.
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Video highlights: Match Cup Sweden - Day 1 →
Highlights from the opening day of the Match Cup Sweden. Marstrand, 29 June 2009. Video copyright World Match Racing Tour.
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What dolphins can teach us about hydrodynamics →
The flippers that some marine mammals use to glide underwater have a lot in common with the wings of passenger jets and fighter planes. An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Duke University, West Chester University and the United States Naval Academy recently found out just how similar the manmade wings and marine mammal flippers are by testing scale models in a water tunnel. “Ultimately,...
Coast Guard rescues man from out-of-control boat →
The Coast Guard rescued a man from an out-of-control pleasure boat near the Gulfport Ship Channel, Monday, July 29, 2009.
Coast Guard Sector Mobile, Ala. received a report at 8:17 a.m. from a crewmember aboard the motor vessel Miami River that the 39-foot recreational vessel, Capt. Avery, was turning in circles and that no one appeared to be on board.
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Coast Guard rescues three near Tawas, Mich. →
U.S. Coast Guard Station Tawas rescued three men near Tawas, Mich. after their vessel began taking on water and sank at approximately 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station Tawas received a distress call relayed from a good samaritan vessel on VHF channel 16 at approximately 3:30 p.m. The station’s 47-foot motor lifeboat was dispatched to the scene, where the three men were clinging to the partially...
Discovery’s Edge story makes global news →
The summer issue of Discovery’s Edge, Mayo Clinic’s research magazine, published an unusual lead story last week. Urology researchers at Mayo are seeing dramatic results with a new experimental antibody in combating some of the most aggressive and deadly forms of prostate cancer (see the news release). Three patients have left the clinical trial, undergone surgery and are now free of cancer.
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Coast Guard, state, local agencies search for... →
CURRITUCK, N.C. - The Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, and other state and local agencies are searching for a missing 26-year-old swimmer in Little Narrows near Poplar Branch in Currituck Sound.
Currituck 911 notified Coast Guard watchstanders at Sector North Carolina at 8:30 p.m. that Leah Bland was reported missing after swimming from an 18-foot boat with one other person on board.
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Coast Guard medically evacuates man with chest... →
The. U.S. Coast Guard Station Cleveland harbor medically evacuated a 55-year-old crewman from the motor vessel H. Lee White in the vicinity of the Cleveland breakwall at approximately 1:00 p.m. Sunday.
Station Cleveland Harbor received a distress call on VHF channel 16 at approximately 11:15 a.m. requesting assistance for a crewmember who was experiencing chest pains.
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Coast Guard rescues two people after vessel... →
The Coast Guard rescued two people from the water Saturday night after their vessel capsized at the mouth of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts.
A Good Samaritan on the recreational vessel Fanatic notified Coast Guard Station Merrimack River, Mass., at 8:42 p.m., on VHF/FM channel 16 that a 20-foot recreational vessel was taking on water.
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Coast Guard helicopter and boat crews work... →
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Coast Guard rescued three people Sunday morning after a 23-foot fishing boat capsized approximately 20-miles east of St. Marys, Ga.
Rescued are Kevin Gilman, 25, Allan White, 48, and Lawrence White, 44.
The men reported they were fishing when their boat capsized, causing them to fall into the water. Two of the men made there way onto the floating hull, while another...
Coast Guard crew rescues 2 near Newport, N.J. →
The Coast Guard rescued two people Saturday in Nantuxent Creek near Newport, N.J., who were reported overdue after the personal watercraft they were aboard became stranded in shallow water.
The Coast Guard received a call at 9:32 p.m. from one of the overdue persons father reporting his son and his son’s friend overdue from their trip.
A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Fortescue,...
Changing Course and The Secret Of gCaptain. →
After the sucessful launch of gCaptain’s new Maritime Jobs Board we are ready for the next big idea. The jobs section was built to help solve a problem, clear away the clutter of existing job platforms and equip gCaptain community members (the best mariners in the world!) with a tool to find jobs that exite and inspire. This article is written to announce the next idea… a product that will change...
Northwest Navy, Coast Guard Train Together During... →
Navy divers and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team members from the Pacific Northwest met with Coast Guardsmen at the U.S. Coast Guard Station Quillayute River in La Push, Wash., for a week-long training evolution, June 22-26. According to Lt. Daniel Pick, officer in charge of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11 Det. Bangor, the Homeland Defense Interoperability Exercise...
Talk about getting the cart before the horse. →
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No One Gets Left Behind →
Murphy was part of a dedicated team fighting the Taliban, a fundamentalist regime that a U.S.-led coalition knocked from power in Afghanistan in 2001, but has continued to conduct guerilla operations, particularly along the Pakistan border. Murphy worked to help ensure al-Qaeda terrorists could not train in, nor launch strikes from Afghanistan since their lethal attack on the World Trade Center in...
No One Gets Left Behind! →
“Gets Left Behind” is the motto that the American & the Allied Military lives by. Our Freedom is held up by this amazing concept. Our team with a Grammy Nominee utilized this group of beautiful words to create a music video to honor our beloved troops. Another critical point made in this song is “It ain’t politics on one side or the other” .
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Disabled Vessel Assisted By Amver Ship →
The Amver participating commercial ship British Trader was diverted by United States Coast Guard search and rescue authorities early Saturday June 27th to assist a disabled vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. The British Trader arrived on the scene, launched a rescue boat, and boarded the disabled vessel to see if they could repair their engines. The British Trader crew could not repair the engine and...
Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell →
Marcus Luttrell (born 1975) is a former Petty Officer First Class[3] (pay grade E6) and United States Navy SEAL. He received the Navy Cross for his actions in 2005 facing Taliban fighters during Operation Red Wing.
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Navy Seal Operation Redwing →
On June 28, 2005, deep behind enemy lines east of Asadabad in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan, a very committed four-man Navy SEAL team was conducting a reconnaissance mission at the unforgiving altitude of approximately 10,000 feet. The SEALs, Lt. Michael Murphy, Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Danny Dietz, Sonar Technician 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew Axelson and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SEAL)...
Coast Guard conducts medical evacuation of laker... →
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary operated Small Boat Station Alpena medically evacuated a 37-year-old crewman from the motor vessel Maumee approximately 26 nautical miles northeast of Alpena, Mich., at approximately 11:00 a.m. Friday.
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie received a distress call from the Maumee at approximately 9:00 a.m., requesting...
Alaska Coast Guard searching for missing Chinese... →
The Coast Guard is searching for a 37-year-old Chinese crewmember presumed to have fallen overboard from the 685-foot container ship Sao Paulo approximately 754 miles southwest of Kodiak in the North Pacific Ocean.
The man was last seen aboard the ship at 11:30 a.m. Thursday and was discovered missing approximately seven hours later after he didn’t report for watch.
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Video Release: Coast Guard rescues 5 in Chesapeake... →
A 41-foot utility boat crew from Coast Guard Station Curtis Bay, Md., responded to a call via marine-band radio reporting an engine fire aboard a 26-foot pleasure craft near Gibson Island, Md., Thursday, June 25, 2009. A volunteer Riviera Beach Fire Department boat crew arrived on scene, boarded the vessel, determined the fire was out and declared that the vessel was safe. The Coast Guard crew...
Photo Tour: A MASH Unit for Ailing Sea Mammals →
SAUSALITO, California — The Marine Mammal Center — located on the site of a Cold War-era missile silo north of San Francisco, within sight of the Pacific Ocean at the end of a military road — has been doing cutting edge veterinary science since 1975.
Then, the vets were working out of shipping containers and keeping animals in kiddie pools. Now, after treating thousands of animals, one of the...
McMurdo Fast-Find 210 - Change In The Way You... →
A few months ago we received a press release from McMurdo on a revolutionary product, the Fast-Find 210 PLB, a portable version of an EPIRB, The revolutionary part was not a change in the way distress signals are sent from the device but rather the size (very small) and price point ($299 list) of the device. Subscribing to the theory of Too Good To Be True, we have held off on writing about the...
Last pole-driven river ferry may close in Virginia →
SCOTTSVILLE, Va. - For more than 130 years, ferrymen have jammed poles into the James River’s gravelly shallows to push the Hatton Ferry slowly across to other side.
The unique calling now may be days from extinction: America’s last known hand-poled ferry is a casualty of ebbing state finances and politics.
On July 1, Virginia stops funding the Hatton Ferry. Unless private donors,...
Aberystwyth RNLI lifeboat rescues man who fell... →
The Aberystwyth RNLI lifeboat was called out at 10.30pm on Wednesday (24 June) to a 21-year-old man who had fallen approx 30ft from cliffs at Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth.
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Amazing rescue effort underway at sea →
An international rescue effort is currently en route to a ship in the Atlantic approximately 700 miles off the west coast of Ireland. A crew member on board container ship “Pascha” has fallen seriously ill and needs urgent medical attention.
The ship’s distance from land makes it impossible for the traditional sea rescue operations to reach; and the U.K.’s Rescue Coordination Center requested the...
Cittia De Salerno Rescue - Incident Photo Of The... →
This week’s incident photo of the week is the rescue of the sailboat Cittia De Salerno’s captain, Gianfranco Tortolani, on the USA to UK segment of the the Original Single Handed Trans-Atlantic Race.
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Coast Guard temporarily detains cruise ship in New... →
NEW YORK - A 782-foot cruise ship carrying 848 passengers and crew is being temporarily detained in New York Harbor after a routine safety inspection revealed minor hull damage and several maintenance deficiencies Thursday.
A seven person examination team from Coast Guard Sector New York boarded the cruise ship Oceanic, homeported in Malta, at 9 a.m. Thursday to conduct a routine safety...
House approves requirement that military protect... →
Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, joined his colleagues in a vote of 389-22 to approve the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 2647, which included a Cummings amendment that would require the Department of Defense to protect U.S.-flagged ships at risk of being boarded by pirates.
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Early call for new Clacton lifeboat →
Clacton-on-Sea took delivery of its new “D” class lifeboat at lunchtime and hardly before the crew had time to get it wet it was called into action when two kite-surfers became entangled.
They were off Martello Bay just before 6pm where the lifeboat crew were familiarising themselves with the new boat when one of the crew spotted the two men in the water.
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Coast Guard searching Lake Champlain after Mayday... →
The Coast Guard and other agencies are searching Lake Champlain after receiving a radio call from an unknown source.
The Coast Guard received a call on VHF/FM channel 16 that a vessel had been hit by lightning and was going down.
A storm is moving through the area although authorities have received no reports of lightning strikes.
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Coast Guard rescues 5 from disabled boat in... →
The Coast Guard rescued one adult and four children that were stranded on a disabled vessel due to an engine fire in the Chesapeake Bay near Gibson Island, Md., Thursday afternoon.
The owner/operator of a 26-foot pleasure craft notified Coast Guard Sector Baltimore watchstanders via marine-band radio at 2:05 p.m. reporting his engine had been on fire.
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Whales Might Be as Much Like People as Apes →
Not human people, but as occupying a similar range on the spectrum as the great apes, for whom the idea of personhood has moved from preposterous to possible. Chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos possess self-awareness, feelings and high-level cognitive powers. According to a steadily gathering body of research, so do whales and dolphins.
In fact, their capacities could be even more ancient than our...
NEW ENGLAND: Search for missing boater turns into... →
The Coast Guard is searching for a missing boater near the mouth of the Merrimack River. He was one of four people on board when their boat began taking on water.
The case is now being treated as a criminal investigation.
Authorities said today that the missing man is 36-years-old and from Kensington, N.H., but did not release his name.
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Coast Guard Cutter Eagle to host change of command... →
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle is scheduled to host a change of command ceremony at the passenger terminal Saturday at 9 a.m. Captain Eric C. Jones will assume responsibility as commanding officer of Eagle from Capt. Chris Sinnett during a time-honored ceremony that formally transfers authority and accountability from one individual to another.
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Coast Guard medically evacuates man from Darien... →
BRUNSWICK, Ga. - The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 24-year-old man from a disabled 17-foot boat in the Darien River, Ga., at approximately 12:15 a.m. Thursday.
John Rebush, of Darien, Ga., was en route to Doboy Island, Ga., when his vessel collided with an unknown object in the water. The boaters then contacted the McIntosh County, Ga., Sheriff’s department via cell phone at approximately...
Coast Guard Auxiliary Brings Safety to Boaters on... →
The Coast Guard Auxiliary brought safety to the Missouri River Sunday towing a disabled boat to safety, and then helping a local boater learn about boating safety. On a routine safety patrol on the Missouri River near downtown Omaha, a Coast Guard Auxiliary patrol boat discovered a boater and his family, drifting down river in a boat without power. The disabled boat would not start and was...
Best Captain’s Quotes - A List By Professional... →
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Coast Guard announces new International Maritime... →
Coast Guard announces new International Maritime Organization requirement for Material Organization requirement for Material Safety Data Sheets for tank ships carrying oils and oil products aboard tank ships
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Coast Guard medically evacuates woman off Mackinac... →
U.S. Coast Guard Station St. Ignace medically evacuated a woman off Mackinac Island, Mich., today at appproximately 4:00 a.m.
Station St. Ignace reveived a call from a physician at the Mackinac Island Clinic at approximately 3:20 a.m. Their assistance was requested to medically evacuate a woman who was having respiratory problems to a hospital on the mainland. St. Ignace launched their 25-foot...