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USCG Responds to Person in Water Near Hull, Mass

Sep 03, 2016

Coast Guard and local agencies responded to reports of people in the water in the vicinity of Peddocks Island and Hull Gut Friday evening.At approximately 10:44 p.m. the Hull Harbormaster called Coast Guard watchstanders to report a possible person in the water…

2 Resuced from Pacific Island

Aug 28, 2016

Two mariners who were stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, are safe, Friday, after writing “SOS” in the sand.A Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft crew from Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 was responding…

26 Hours of Information Recovered from El Faro's VDR

Aug 24, 2016

A group led by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has gathered information from the recovered voyage data recorder (VDR) of sunken cargo ship El Faro to develop a detailed transcript of the sounds and discernible words captured…

Giant CMA CGM Ship Vasco De Gama Runs Aground

Aug 24, 2016

CMA CGM’s mega containership Vasco De Gama ran aground off the Port of Southampton on the UK’s south coast just after midnight on August 22, 2016, reported Fleetmon. The damages of the  2015-built, 17,859 teu giant vessel are being assessed…

27% of Ship Incidents Stem from Misdeclared Cargo

Aug 22, 2016

UK P&I Club Risk Assessor David Nichol discusses the carriage of dangerous goods and issues associated with misdeclaration.  Data captured by the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) over the 2013- 2014 period indicates that 27 percent…

Fire on Caribbean Fantasy Extinguished

Aug 22, 2016

The Puerto Rico Fire Department extinguished the fire on the passenger vessel ferry Caribbean Fantasy using 3,000 gallons of seawater from the San Juan Harbor around 6 p.m. Saturday.The Unified Command is establishing mechanical ventilation to circulate air through the vessel…

Harbor Cruise Boat Rescued near Gloucester Harbor

Aug 21, 2016

The Coast Guard and partner agencies responded to a 37-foot Cape Ann Harbor Cruise vessel taking on water, in the vicinity of Brace Cove, outside of Gloucester Harbor, Saturday.At 4:34 p.m. Saturday, watchstanders from Coast Guard Sector…

USCG Assists Disabled Fishing Vessel near Honolulu

Aug 20, 2016

The Coast Guard safely towed a disabled 46-foot commercial fishing vessel with three persons aboard back to the Port of Honolulu, Friday.A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Honolulu relieved the USCGC Kittiwake (WPB…

Ship Collision Kills Three in Bosphorus Strait

Aug 17, 2016

Three Turkish Coast Guard personnel were killed on Wednesday after their vessel collided with a bulk carrier in the Bosphorus strait, forcing officials to temporarily suspend traffic in the busy shipping lane. Their vessel capsized after colliding with the Tolunay…

Boat Collision Claims Four Lives off Greece's Aegina

Aug 16, 2016

Four people, including a nine-year-old child, died and four were injured after a boat with about 20 people on board and a speedboat collided off the Greek holiday island of Aegina near Athens on Tuesday, the coastguard said.The child, the…

USCG Saves 4 Off Cape Cod

Aug 11, 2016

The Coast Guard rescues four people stranded on Monamesset Island Wednesday after their 23-foot center console ran aground.At about 10:40 a.m., an employee from a commercial towing company called Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England…

El Faro’s Voyage Data Recorder Recovered

Aug 09, 2016

The voyage data recorder (VDR) from El Faro, a U.S. flagged cargo ship that sank during Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015, has been recovered from the ocean floor late Monday evening, the U.S. National Transportation Board (NTSB) said. The…

Three Rescued after their Boat Flips in Pamet Harbor

Aug 06, 2016

The Coast Guard rescued three people from the water after their boat overturned in Pamet Harbor, Massachusetts.At 3:15 p.m., the owner of a 14-foot aluminum boat reported to Coast Guard Station Provincetown watchstanders that he had lent his boat to three people…

Man Medevaced 90 miles East of Jacksonville

Aug 05, 2016

The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a man Thursday who sustained a head injury 90-miles east of Jacksonville.A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew medevaced the 33-year-old man from the vessel Eagle Texas.Coast…

Injured Fisherman Medevaced

Aug 01, 2016

Coast Guard Station Chatham crewmembers medevaced an injured fisherman Saturday night near the entrance of Great Round Shoal.A person aboard the fishing boat Illusion, which was about 30 miles east of Nantucket en route to its homeport of New Bedford…

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