Coastguard Videos, Reports, and Responses to Mariners

Mishaps & Rescues - Long Island Sound

Disaster averted - The marine community along New York’s lower Hudson River sprang into action recently to rescue all 155 passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 from 35-degree waters.

Mishaps & Rescues – New England

Recent responses around the Northeast

The sailing vessel Moonshine is pictured at the dock at Coast Guard Station Montauk, N.Y., after the Coast Guard rescued a four-person crew caught in an offshore storm that shredded the sails. C.G. saves four in storm

Station Point Judith, R.I.

The Coast Guard rescued four people aboard a storm-ravaged sailboat, about seven miles south of Block Island, R.I. The crew of the 45-foot sailboat left East Greenwich, R.I., bound for Puerto Rico, when it was caught in an offshore storm, which ripped its sails and disabled propulsion.

Mishaps & Rescues – Mid-Atlantic

Helicopter Rescue

Gogul pulls in the trail line to a stokes litter.

Fireman Joshua L. Graham spots Petty Officer 2nd Class John Z. Gogul while awaiting the trail line on a

41-foot utility boat from Coast Guard Station St. Inigoes while practicing transport of rescued personnel from a boat to a helicopter.

Gogul pulls in the trail line to a stokes litter.

Coast Guard Response Report - Long Island Sound

Recent responses from around the nation

HOLED — Fishing vessel Sarah-Kate sits aground in Rockland Harbor, Maine as strong winds passed through the area. The Coast Guard reported that at least five boats came loose from their moorings.

Coast Guard response report - Mid-Atlantic

Recent responses from the Mid-Atlantic

Shallow Water

Chincoteague

Coast Guard crew from Station Chincoteague demonstrates the capabilities of the 24-foot Special Purpose Craft - Shallow Water - in the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth, Va. The SPC-SW, intended to operate in areas that other response boats cannot reach, will enhance capabilities for search and rescue, law enforcement and Homeland Security missions.

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