WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued four people Thursday after their boat became disabled 26 miles southeast of Hatteras Inlet. Watchstanders at the Sector North Carolina Command Center in Wilmington received notification via VHF-marine radio at approximately 4:15 p.m. Wednesday stating the 23-foot boat Joe Dot Com was disabled with four people aboard. A […]
Recently, with persistence and hard work by CBIA Board Members, UNC-W approved a grant to benefit the Carolina Beach Inlet Association’s request for Professor of Economics Dr. Chris Dumas to gather and study data to compile an Economic Impact Study with regard to real estate values in our community, for having a shallow draft inlet […]
NOAA Fisheries announces federal waters from 9 to 200 nautical miles off Texas will close to shrimp trawling at 30 minutes after official sunset, local time, on May 15, 2016, corresponding to the time Texas closes its state waters to shrimp trawling. Federal waters off Texas are west of the line shown in the […]
PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard rescued two people Sunday after the boat they were on began taking on water five miles east of Sea Isle City, New Jersey. Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay watchstanders received notification Sunday at approximately 4:20 p.m. that the 32-foot sailboat Island Time with two people aboard was taking on water. […]
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard and local partner agencies responded Sunday to two people aboard a boat taking on water near Hart Miller Island. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region received a report from Baltimore County Fire Rescue dispatch stating a boat was taking on water, and the owner was unsure if the […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard is responding Sunday to a submerged boat in Currituck Sound. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received a call at about 12:34 p.m. from the operator of a 52-foot pleasure craft Cheryl Lynn out of Coinjock that began taking on water near Tulls Bay Marker 79 in Currituck […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued two people from a grounded pleasure craft Sunday near Wrightsville Beach. Watchstanders at Station Wrightsville Beach received a request for help at about 4:52 a.m. from the male operator of an 18-foot boat aground in Shinn Creek approximately one mile from the station. He expressed concerns about his […]
Coast Guard, local agencies search for man near Trenton boat ramp PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard, Trenton Fire Dept. and New Jersey State Police Dept. are searching Saturday for a missing jet skier near the Trenton boat ramp. Missing is Jesus Diaz Melendez, 26, of Trenton, New Jersey. The crew of the vessel A.J. Meerwald […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued four people from a sinking pleasure craft Saturday southeast of Beaufort. Watchstanders at the Sector North Carolina Command Center in Wilmington received a distress call from the 26-foot aluminum-hulled catamaran Fish Tank at about 1:18 p.m. taking on water approximately 26 miles southeast of Beaufort Inlet. A 47-foot […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a man Saturday from a fishing boat about 35 miles east of Chincoteague. Watchstanders at the Sector Hampton Roads Command Center in Portsmouth received notification at approximately 10:45 a.m. a 58-year-old crewman aboard the commercial fishing boat Good News II out of Hampton was having trouble breathing and […]
