Coast Guard rescues three Alameda-bound sailors
The Coast Guard rescued a trio of Alameda-bound sailors Saturday whose 32-foot catamaran capsized en route from Crescent City, 20 miles off the coast of Fort Bragg.
The crew of the catamaran, Calypso, were taken to an area hospital to be treated for hypothermia after the Coast Guard found them clinging to the hull of the [...]
Beacon credited with quick rescue of teen sailor Abby Sunderland
At 5:20 a.m. on June 10, an alarm sounded at the U.S. Coast Guard’s Pacific Area Command Center here in Alameda. A California-based sailor had set off an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB), and the signal had bounced from a satellite to the Alameda command center, where the vessel’s name and an emergency contact [...]
USCGC Waesche comes home to Alameda
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The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest national security cutter, the USCGC Waesche, in a ceremony Friday in the cutter’s new homeport of Alameda. The 418-foot Waesche (pronounced way-shee) is the second of eight cutters designed to meet the Guard’s broadening security mission and to replace existing ships that are more than three decades old. [...]
Local HomeSec boat takes down drug runners: VIDEO
From the better-late-than-never department: I’m just getting the chance to tell you about a dramatic drug bust that the Coast Guard cutter Bertholf, which is stationed here at Alameda Point, made last Wednesday night off the coast of Guatemala.
A maritime patrol aircraft spotted four suspicious “panga” boats in international waters 80 miles off the Guatemalan [...]
Coast Guard looks to “green” operations
The Coast Guard wants to know what you have to say about a series of proposals intended to lessen the service’s impacts on marine animals and the waters they call home, along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington.
The Coast Guard is hosting a public hearing to discuss the environmental impacts of their proposals from [...]
The icemen cometh back
I’ve been meaning to tell you that the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Sherman were able to make it back to Alameda for the holidays, following a two-month stint in the Bering Sea, off the Alaska Coast.
The crew was monitoring 90 vessels that fished some 20 million pounds of Alaska’s prized red king crab, [...]
Rest in peace, Hawk
In case you missed it, former Journal editor Lucinda Ryan has a moving tribute in today’s paper to Hawk, a yellow Labrador who served the Coast Guard for four years and who was honored for his service with a retirement ceremony Thursday.
Indeed, Ryan had the heart to do what we could not. Hawk is being [...]
Snow patrol
Last week was a busy (and apparently, somewhat dangerous) one for our local Coasties. Last Saturday, Sept. 13, the crew of the USS McInerney busted a drug sub about 350 miles off the coast of Guatemala that was carrying $187 million worth of cocaine, according to this story on NBC 11’s website. Apparently the alleged [...]
Changing of the Guard
Did anyone else catch the rather sizeable ad in the Journal last week regarding potential changes in Coast Guard operations? I guess the Guard is looking to “modernize” its command structure in an effort to keep up with what they say is an ever-growing and shifting workload.
Under the proposal, the Pacific Area Command based in [...]
