Coast Guard Suspends Search for Overdue Boaters PORTSMOUTH, Va.- The Coast Guard has suspended the search for three overdue boaters on the James River this afternoon. The Coast Guard recovered the body of Lewis Mclean, 53, a Suffolk resident one mile south of the James River Bridge at 11 a.m. today, Kelton Troup, 14 and […]
Coast Guard Responds to Capsized Rowboat PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is responding to an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) signal it recieved today, from a capsized rowboat located 1,300 miles east of Puerto Rico. The rowboat, American Fire, was taking part in the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race, a trans-Atlantic rowboat race from […]
Coast Guard Searches for Overdue Boaters PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is searching the James River for three boaters who were reported overdue at 11 p.m. Saturday night. The boaters were fishing onboard the 23-foot blue and white fishing boat Reel Naughty. A 41-foot search and rescue boat from Station Portsmouth, the Coast Guard […]
NOAA PREDICTS WEAK LA NIÑA Jan. 12, 2006  Weak La Niña conditions are predicted in the tropical Pacific just in time for spring, but NOAA scientists stress it is too early to know how this could affect springtime and summertime weather patterns in the United States. La Niña is the periodic cooling of ocean […]
Media Advisory Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Tugboat Crewman PORTSMOUTH, VA. – The Coast Guard has suspended the search this afternoon for Richard Kuczera, a 38-year old crewman from the tugboat Emma M. Roehrig. The search for Kuczera, a New York resident, who fell overboard at approximately 5 a.m. today, eight miles west of […]
COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING CREWMAN PORTSMOUTH, VA – The Coast Guard is searching for a tugboat crewman who who fell overboard approximately 5 a.m., near the CY buoy approximately eight miles west of Cape Charles, Va. A Coast Guard 25-foot search and rescue boat from Station Cape Charles and the Maryland pilot vessel Patasco […]
Tokai rescues two U.S. citizens at sea from vessel taking on water SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Two U.S. citizens were rescued at sea today by the crew of cargo vessel Tokai 55 nautical miles northwest of the Dominican Republic, after their vessel was taking on water. Steve Fierce, tug boat Monitor captain, relayed to […]
**UPDATE** COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR FROM SINKING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four people aboard a liferaft after their vessel began taking on water approximately seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 7:30 a.m. today. The crewmembers of the 38-foot, Scituate-based, vessel were hoisted into the […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR FROM SINKING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four people aboard a liferaft after their vessel began taking on water approximately seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 7:30 a.m. today. Coast Guard Group Woods Hole received a VHF-16 distress call from a […]
NOAA NAMES JOHN H. DUNNIGAN ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR NOAA’S NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE John H. Dunnigan, currently director of NOAA Fisheries Service’s Office of Sustainable Fisheries, has been named as the new assistant administrator for the NOAA Ocean Service by retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D, undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere […]
