SEATTLE — Coast Guard crews and local responders rescued three people from the water south of the Grays Harbor South Jetty, Saturday. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Astoria in Warrenton, Oregon hoisted two females and one male, and safely transported them to emergency medical personnel waiting at Coast Guard Station Grays Harbor in Westport. Watchstanders at Coast Guard […]
SEATTLE — Coast Guard and Washington Department of Ecology personnel are overseeing pollution cleanup after sheening was reported around the bulk carrier Nord Auckland anchored near Kalama, Thursday. The responsible party contracted Clean Rivers Cooperative, who has two booming vessels on scene with crews engaged in cleanup operations. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Columbia River received reports of […]
SEATTLE – Coast Guard and Washington State Department of Ecology personnel are overseeing the response to the sunken 34-foot fishing vessel Streaker north of Rainbow Bridge near La Conner, Washington, Wednesday. Global Diving and Salvage technicians, who were contracted using funds from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, are en route and will remove all […]
MOBILE, Ala. – The Coast Guard advises mariners to prepare for severe weather conditions forecasted by the National Weather Service, impacting Mississippi, Alabama and the Pensacola area, Tuesday afternoon. Winds are expected to increase to small craft advisory levels on Tuesday afternoon with frequent gusts to gale force winds through early Wednesday. Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected […]
Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at sunset, Thursday, February 25, 2016 the following changes in restrictions will apply to the area open to the mechanical harvest of oysters: I. MEANS AND METHODS MECHANICAL HARVEST RESTRICTIONS: A. Oysters may be taken by mechanical methods (See General Information Section VII. E., G. and I. […]
Triad Saltwater Anglers, Inc., a saltwater fishing club located in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina will be hosting a saltwater fishing school/seminar at the Village Inn Event Center 6205 Ramada Drive, Clemmons, NC 27012 on March 19, 2016. There will be a full day of seminar with some of our area’s best charter […]
MOREHEAD CITY – The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries will hold a public meetingto discuss the Atlantic Ocean monkfish large mesh gill net fishery at 6 p.m. March 3 at the division’s Manteo Office, 1021 Driftwood Drive, Manteo. The purpose of the meeting is for division staff to explain to fishermen the permit requirements and other conditions […]
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued three people Sunday after the boat they were on began taking on water 39 miles southeast of Oregon Inlet. Sector North Carolina watchstanders received notification Sunday at about 12:20 p.m. that a 24-foot boat with three people aboard was taking on water. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew […]
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard medevaced a diabetic man from a Galveston Party Boats catamaran while they were underway about 70 miles southeast of Galveston Saturday. The captain of the catamaran, Cavalier, radioed to Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders at 2:19 p.m., stating that a 44-year-old passenger was suffering diabetic shock and had a heart attack. Another passenger aboard was a doctor […]
PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard oversaw the refloating of a barge and tugboat Sunday near Absecon Inlet. The 77-foot Miss Katie experienced a loss of power Saturday and ran aground north of the Absecon Inlet, and the 135-foot barge drifted and ran aground on the south side of the north jetty. Personnel from Coast Guard Station Atlantic City arrived […]
