Tag: Coast Guard

On 17th May, the Mark W. Barker, the first U.S. ship built last year on the Great Lakes since 1983, ran soft aground in the Detroit River after the freighter lost propulsion.

Security guards on superyacht Kalizma opened fire on Yemen Coast Guard boats in Yemen last Friday, allegedly mistaking them for pirates.

Italian Coast Guard has detained rescue vessel Louise Michel, in Lampedusa, an Italian island between Malta and Tunisia, on Sunday 26th March, after rescuing 178 refugees and migrants on March 25th. 

This morning around 2 a.m., the Seattle Fire Department’s Fire Alarm Center received 911 calls reporting multiple boats on fire in a marina.

On March 8th, 2023 an oil rig caught fire in Mobile Alabama. The fire was put out but environmental concerns arise as the rig contained diesel, hydraulic fluid, oil and other potentially hazardous substances.

As stated by the U.S. Coast Guard, on February 28th, recovery teams were able to retrieve Tagish, a tugboat that sank on December 28th of 2022, and was partially submerged in the National Guard Terminal in Gastineau Channel, close to Juneau, Alaska.

On 27th April, a 760-foot vehicle carrier ran aground near the Cape Charles Anchorage in the Chesapeake Bay.

In light of the increased cyber incidents within shipping industry, US Coast Guard published a marine notice, urging shipping players to report any malicious cyber activity, in order to prevent and respond to such threats that could disrupt or jeopardize national security.

Following Gulf Livestock carrier's capsize after sailing into a typhoon, Japan Coast Guard managed to rescue two out of the 43 missing crew.

On Friday, June 26, the Italian Coast Guard freed a sperm whale from being entangled in an illegal fishing net off the Aeolian Islands.