A rescue boatcrew from Coast Guard Station Buffalo, N.Y., assisted four people in the Niagara River Tuesday afternoon after their boat struck bottom and became disabled. This is the second assist the crew of Station Buffalo conducted in a 12-hour period. At 11:28 a.m., search-and-rescue controllers at Coast Guard Sector Buffalo received a report that a 24-foot [...]
Forty cadets from the Japan Coast Guard training vessel Kojima visited U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu May 17, 2013, as part of an ongoing partnership between the two services. Kojima, a 377-foot training vessel, is homeported at the Japan Coast Guard Academy and serves to educate and train future officers of the Japan Coast Guard. [...]
A motor launch was apprehended by a Coast Guard personnel after it was towed from its grounding position at the vicinity waters of Honday Bay Pier in Palawan last 06 May. According to reports, ML Jocshan accidentally ran aground on top of a large shoal while trying to maneuver its way out of the Pier. [...]
Capt. Joseph McGuiness was relieved by Capt. Steve Teschendorf as the commander for Coast Guard Sector Ste. Sainte Marie, Mich., Tuesday, at a ceremony at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie. Sector Sault Ste. Marie is responsible for all Coast Guard missions — including search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, aids to navigation, [...]
Sri Lanka Navy and Coast Guard assisted in the repatriation of 5 Sri Lankan fishermen on 29th April 2013. The fishermen with their fishing boat named “Jaya Isuru” were taken over from the Indian Coast Guard Ship “Rajshree” at the International Maritime Boundary Line off Kankasanthurai by Sri Lanka Naval Vessel Ranajaya attached to the [...]
A total of 40 passengers, 27 of which are foreigners and four are minors, arrived safely in Coron, Palawan after the personnel of Coast Guard Detachment (CGDet) Linapacan towed their distressed motor boat at the vicinity waters of Pangaldauan Island last Thursday, 25 April. The wooden hulled Oniel Cruiser, owned and operated by Nilo J. [...]
Today, the Peene shipyard in Germany successfully completed a new series that was part of an order obtained during insolvency. The coast guard vessel (Kustbevakningen Vessel) KBV 034 was handed over to the Swedish Coast Guard, with a reflagging ceremony at dock 2 of the Peene shipyard in Wolgast, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The Swedish Coast Guard [...]
The German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz in partnership with Italian marine automation provider Seastema has been selected to deliver advanced integrated bridge and navigation system for two Italian Coast Guard military patrol vessels. The vessels are currently being built at Fincantieri’s Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) shipyard. The delivery will be the first military application [...]
On Friday afternoon, Chinese fishing vessel F/V Min Long Yu, was successfully towed and removed from its grounding site near the northern isle of Tubbataha Reef. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) commandant Rear Admiral Rodolfo Isorena said that around 2:20 p.m. the vessel that ran aground last week was extracted from its grounding position by [...]
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Elements of Coast Guard Station (CGS) Basco is searching for a reported missing fisherman onboard his non-motorized banca at the vicinity waters of Diura, Mahatao, Batanes yesterday, 07 April. The incident was reported by his wife, Teresita Carzon, who disclosed that his husband Artemio Carzon, 58 years old and resident of Brgy Uyoy, Mahatao, Batanes [...]
