COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO NAVY HELICOPTER CRASH PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard assets responded to a Navy helicopter crash about 30 miles off Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., today. The cause of the crash is unknown. Before going down, the crew was able to radio a mayday which was heard by local Coast Guard […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES HUNTER PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Coast Guard crew rescued a duck hunter whose boat was stuck in the ice in Chincoteague Bay this afternoon. After receiving a cell phone call from Anthony McGee about 12:30 p.m., a Coast Guard Station Chincoteague crew launched their 23-foot rescue boat to an area about three […]
THREE HUNTERS AND DOG RESCUED ASSATEAGUE ISLAND, Md. – Three hunters and their dog were rescued by the Coast Guard, Virginia Marine Police and the Maryland State Police in Chincoteague Bay, Va., on Tuesday night. At approximately 6:20 p.m., Worchester, Md., 911 received a phone call from three hunters on a cellular phone to report […]
SHIP MASTER GUILTY OF OPERATING VESSEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE NORFOLK, Va. – The master of a Panama-flagged freighter was convicted Wednesday of operating a commercial vessel while under the influence of alcohol and was fined $3,000 and ordered not to operate a vessel in U.S. waters for one year. Immigration officials are also processing Hungarian […]
Corps and Coast Guard work cooperatively to address shoaled inlets WILMINGTON, NC – The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is working closely with the United States Coast Guard as the Coast Guard plans to remove entire buoy systems from four dangerously shoaled inlets along the North Carolina Coast. These inlets are Lockwoods Folly […]
Long Distance Movements of Atlantic Sharks from the NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program* by J.G. Casey and N.E. Kohler *In: Discovering Sharks. 1990. S.H. Gruber ed. American Littoral Society, Highlands, N.J. pp.87-90. In 1962, the U.S. Government initiated a shark tagging program in the Atlantic Ocean with the volunteer assistance of sport and commercial fishermen. […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES 2 FROM LIFE RAFT ATLANTIC CITY – With heavy weather rolling in, the Coast Guard Cutter Ibis rescued two men from a life raft after their 45-foot scalloper sank about 20 miles east of Atlantic City today. The F/V Chico Bravo began taking on water and sank leaving the two men onboard, […]
AS WINTER GRIPS MOST OF THE NATION, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPACE WEATHER, TOO Jan 19, 2005  For the past five days, forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., have observed all types of space weather: radio blackouts, solar radiation storms and geomagnetic storms. Currently, space weather forecasters are observing a moderate […]
Maritime safety regulations for Super Bowl XXXIX finalizedFor detailed instructions concerning the maritime regulations and security zones please click here. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port has finalized and released the regulated navigational areas, security zones and temporary anchorage areas on the St. Johns River, which will be established and enforced […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR ON DISABLED FISHING BOAT PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Coast Guard cutter is towing a disabled squid fishing vessel from the Mid Atlantic off New Jersey to Block Island Sound, R.I. The crew of the New York, New York-registered, 86-foot fishing vessel Provider radioed Coast Guard Station Woods Hole, Mass., for help […]
