Watchstanders from Coast Guard District Seventeen received notification Thursday, July 7, that Anthony Imas, 50, was injured and required medical assistance. Imas was reportedly suffering from severe back pain after falling aboard the 50-foot fishing vessel HEIDI LINEA. The Coast Guard directed the launch of a helicopter rescue crew, which…
Three men and two women were thrown from their 19-foot boat after it took a wave over the bow in Lake Ontario on Monday, July 4. A member of the Coast Guard Reserve witnessed the event and called the Coast Guard Station Rochester to notify the crew of the accident.…
The Coast Guard medically evacuated fishermen Alvin Floyd and John Hodges from a 23-foot commercial fishing vessel on the south end of St. Catherines Island on Wednesday, June 22, following an explosion onboard. Operational watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Charleston received reports of the explosion and deployed two rescue helicopter…
Coast Guard Sector Charleston was notified Thursday, June 30 by Alan Carl, 45, asking for medical assistance after sustaining an injury while fishing around the mouth of the North Santee River near Georgetown, SC. Officials said the man’s arm was severed at the shoulder, possibly by the winch on board…
Five men were pulled from the water by Mark Forester aboard his boat BLUCIFER on Friday, June 10. The five men had been clinging to their boat for approximately 22-hours southwest of Cape Lookout off North Carolina shores. Rescued were Chul Lee, Byung Park, Ung Chong, Ku Changu, and Ung…
A Coast Guard helicopter and crew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston were on patrol when they spotted an overturned 18-foot boat in Galveston Bay on Sunday, June 19. The helicopter conducted a search of the area and spotted one person in the water. The crew hoisted Robert Rasmussen of…
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville received word of a sinking 26-foot boat about one mile southeast of Cape Canaveral, Thursday morning around 9:45 a.m. The captain noticed the boat listing and sinking; once in the water he was able to make a mayday call using a cell phone in…
Around 2:30 a.m. on June 14, the Coast Guard vessel KNIGHT ISLAND noticed a boat drifting without its navigational lights on, about twelve miles off Riviera Beach in Florida. According to Petty Officer Nick Ameen, the boat then accelerated and attempted to elude the authorities, before stopping about 12 miles…
The Coast Guard assisted the 48-foot fishing vessel JB which ran aground on the south jetty of Grays Harbor, WA, at 1:45 a.m., Monday, June 6. Upon receiving the distress call, Coast Guard Sector Columbia River coordinated the deployment of a Station Grays Harbor 25-foot response boat and 47-foot motor…
A Coast Guard aircrew assisted in the rescue of three fishermen who had been missing for three days and found around 100 miles west of Tarawa, Kiribati on Thursday, June 2. The government of the Republic of Kiribati sent an official request to assist in the search to watchstanders in…