Sentences with phrase «coast guard said»

In a statement the Coast Guard said, «The ship's command immediately began taking actions to turn the ship around and begin search and rescue operations.»

While rescuers searched for 11 missing offshore oil workers off the coast of Louisiana, the flaming, tilting rig they were on sank Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

«The Coast Guard said it was the earliest the ice had frozen here since the 1930s, and the river connecting Lakes Superior and Huron has been some of the toughest ice they have seen.

The weather on May 19th made it a «favorable» day for burning oil on the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer John Kepsimelis).

The Coast Guard said in a news release personnel aboard the Carnival Triumph extinguished the fire and no one was injured.

The United States is not ready to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic, the head of the Coast Guard said yesterday.

The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday that between nine and 18 barrels had spilled.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday Lehner's tender cable had become detached during the training exercise.

Searchers spotted debris from a plane that disappeared over the Bahamas with four people on board, including a New York woman and her two children, the Coast Guard said.

The U.S. Coast Guard said a suicide note was found inside Scott's black Toyota Prius.

Those aboard include Eritreans, Somalis and Ghanaians, the coast guard said, and the boat is believed to have launched from Libya's coast.

Oily matter that reached two islands in Japan is likely to come from a sunken Iranian tanker, the Japan Coast Guard said.

And now, the U.S. Coast Guard says the process of removing the oil from the lake has begun.

In its PAWSA report, the Coast Guard says the workshops» most significant recommendations were to create a Hudson River Safety Committee; increase recreational boating safety information; and clarify current anchorage regulations.

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But «primarily, it's what we call pangas,» Vice Adm. Charles Ray, the Coast Guard deputy commandant for operations, said during the hearing.

The area covered by traffickers around the Galapagos Islands is as big as the continental US, Ray said, leaving Coast Guard assets assigned to the area stretched thin.

They say the smooth, sustained maiden flight over the Hudson was FAA and U.S. Coast Guard approved.

Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews, and the Mobile fire and police departments «saturated a search area covering three square miles» near the mouth of the Mobile River, and the investigation continues, a Coast Guard spokesperson said.

U.S. Coast Guard air units and boats have rescued more than 4,000 people, Captain Kevin Oditt, commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston - Galveston, said at an afternoon news conference.

The water line is higher than the roofs of some houses, leaving them completely submerged, said Commander Jim Spitler, commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Houston.

The Coast Guard has 25 helicopters and three airplanes conducting search and rescue operations, he said.

The U.S. Coast Guard would instead provide summaries of crew interviews to the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), which would share them with the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), he said.

«My first reaction is that he's speaking to graduates of the US Coast Guard Academy, and these are men and women who will be on the frontlines of protecting the homeland,» Tapper said on CNN.

President Donald Trump went off script during his Wednesday commencement speech to Coast Guard Academy graduates, saying critics and the media had treated him more unfairly than any politician «in history.»

U.S. Coast Guard officials also said interference with ships» GPS disrupted operations at a port for several hours in 2014 and at another terminal in 2015.

HALIFAX — Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Ottawa will spend up to $ 448 million on new vessels for the coast guard.

Bronwyn Barter, president CUPE Local 873 who represents workers at the Ambulance Service of BC, said paramedics relied heavily on the Kits Coast Guard.

The clergy gather on a Coast Guard cutter in the harbor and bless the fishing, commercial and rental boats in the town over ship - to - ship radio, Rieder said.

With equally cheerful warnings was U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Steven Rattior who said, «it could be bad, or it could be devastation.»

«Whether it's my unit, whether it's Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard — it doesn't matter,» Villanueva said.

«The other night,» said Bob Socoloskie of Pittsburgh, «I was two miles out into Lake Ontario when the Coast Guard made me turn around.

Kamman says pool owners should insist non-swimmers wear Coast Guard - approved floatation devices.

Trump struck a defensive tone while delivering the commencement address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Class of 2017, saying: «Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media.

The inspections — conducted last week at shipyards in Rockland County and southern New Jersey — came after the Coast Guard received a report of «minor mechanical issues,» Conroy said.

Mr. Haeg, a private detective, Vietnam veteran, and holder of a United States Coast Guard master's license, said his background in investigative work would be an asset.

Coast Guard officials, who make these kinds of decisions on use of navigatable waterways, agreed to extend comments for another 90 days, which is to say well beyond the election where public input might have more impact.

A spokesperson for Italy's coast guard, which coordinates and participates in rescues, confirmed the five bodies were on board Proactive's ship, the Golfo Azzurro, which he said would remain in the area in case of any emergency calls.

Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney was the first to announce the Coast Guard's decision to suspend the proposal and say it was killed.

Update: Officials from the Coast Guard, the lead agency on the investigation, say its pollution teams discovered the diesel is actually rain runoff from somewhere up river, not from a tugboat as originally reported.

She also said that the Coast Guard lacked the capacity to properly vet the proposal for potential environmental and economic impacts.

Coast Guard public affairs officer Katelyn Waddle said the spill is not as bad as it could have been.

U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - Cold Spring, issued a statement Wednesday afternoon that said Coast Guard Adm. Steven D. Poulin was «effectively killing the proposal» by announcing he would ««suspend future rulemaking decisions» regarding the designation of additional anchorage sites in the Hudson River.»

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said in an email to the media that it was a «wise choice by the U.S. Coast Guard to shelve the decision to create additional anchorages along the Hudson River and instead to solicit wide input on river safety.»

Conroy, though, said the Coast Guard rather was taking more time to assess the plan, especially in light of the volume of comments it received from opponents.

«The anchorages proposal has been suspended because, after analyzing and reviewing the more than 10,000 comments that were received, it was brought to our attention that there's a lot that we really don't know about the Hudson River that we have to study before we make any sort of permanent decision,» Coast Guard spokeswoman Allyson Conroy said Wednesday.

A statement issued by the Coast Guard late Wednesday said Poulin «has suspended future rulemaking decisions and directed a formal risk identification and evaluation of the Hudson River, known as a Ports and Waterways Safety Assessment (PAWSA)... a disciplined approach to identify major waterway safety hazards, estimate risk levels, evaluate potential mitigation measures and set the stage for implementation of selected measures to reduce risk.»

«The Coast Guard needs to hear from people in the Hudson Valley that we don't want these anchorages, that they jeopardize our river, the scenic beauty of the Hudson Valley and the safety, frankly, of our communities with these volatile products that would be transported in very large volumes by these barges,» Carlock says.

Additional anchorage sites along the river are not among the recommendations, though onlookers says the Coast Guard has not ruled out future proposals and rulemaking.

Coast Guard officials say the barge called the Meredith Reinauer ran aground around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday on the west side of the river near Catskill, about 30 miles south of Albany.

The first phase of the Lighthouse Point project, which includes a 12 - story residential building with about 116 - rental units, a commercial building, a parking garage and a public plaza, plans to open at the former U.S. Coast Guard base in 2017, developer Triangle Equities said.