COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING FISHING BOAT CREWMEMBER GALVESTON, Texas- Coast Guard rescue crews are coordinating with locals in the search for a crewmember missing from a capsized fishing boat a half mile south of Grand Chenier, La., this evening. Coast Guard Group Galveston was notified at about 3:35 p.m. that the 39-foot fishing vessel […]
COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO FISHING VESSEL FIRE BOSTON – The Coast Guard Cutter Spencer responded to a distress call from the 84-foot fishing vessel Patriots, with seven people aboard, stating they had an electrical fire in their engine room while offshore approximately 130 nautical miles east of Nantucket, Mass. at 6 p.m. today. The Spencer, […]
Dead Right Whale approximately 78 miles east of Nantucket BOSTON – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba worked with NOAA officials to document a dead right whale 78 miles east of Nantucket, Mass., today. The cutter Escanaba, homeported in Boston, received a call from a NOAA surveillance plane reporting the dead right whale. […]
COAST GUARD DENIES ENTRY TO FOREIGN SHIP NORFOLK, Va. – The Captain of the Port of Hampton Roads has denied entry to a foreign freight ship after a Coast Guard boarding team determined the master was intoxicated. A Coast Guard Sea Marshal team boarded the 214-foot General Lee, flagged in Panama, at 6 a.m. today […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES CREW FROM TUG FIRE IN ICW HOUSTON– Coast Guard search and rescue crews from Station South Padre Island, Texas, rescued the four-man crew of the tugboat Wally Blessey that caught fire just before midnight Sunday in the Intracoastal Waterway in Port Isabel, Texas. The tug, pushing one barge carrying lube oil, had […]
PERSON MISSING FROM DOWNED HELICOPTERCoast Guard Coordinating Multi-Agency Search Efforts PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is coordinating local, state, and federal assets in a search effort this morning for a man missing from a downed helicopter in the Potomac River. A medical helicopter went down about 11:30 p.m. Monday in the river near the […]
NOAA SCIENTISTS ABLE TO MEASURE TSUNAMI HEIGHT FROM SPACE Jan 10, 2005  After reviewing data from four Earth-orbiting radar satellites, NOAA scientists today announced they were able to measure the height of the devastating tsunami that erupted in the Indian Ocean. The ability to make depth surveys from space may lead to improvements in […]
COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO OVERTURNED TOWBOAT PITTSBURGH – Investigators from Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Pittsburgh are responding to an overturned towboat in the Ohio River, near the town of Industry today. The Coast Guard was notified at 3 a.m. that the M/V Elizabeth M and three of the vessel’s six loaded coal barges went […]
Sinking of fishing vessel Northern Edge BOSTON – The Coast Guard continues its investigation into the capsizing and sinking of the fishing vessel Northern Edge, Dec. 20, 2004. Five fishermen lost their lives when the vessel capsized and sank in frigid waters about 45 miles east southeast of Nantucket, Mass. To conduct a thorough investigation […]
Scoping Meetings to Consider Effects of Acoustics on Marine Mammals NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Protected Resources will be holding four scoping meetings to gather public input on the criteria addressed in the Acoustic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This EIS will analyze the potential impacts of applying noise exposure criteria in guidelines to determine what constitutes […]
