CAPE CHARLES, VA. (Oct. 22, 2014) The coast guard reports that three people and their pets were saved from rough water in the Bay.
Category: Sea rescue
Coast Guard medevacs sailor from Navy ship in Atlantic – A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., medevacs a man from a U.S. Navy vessel off the Virginia coast, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. The man was taken to Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Va.
Coast Guard crews and a good Samaritan respond to a distressed boater who’s boat had caught on fire in the Chesapeake Bay.
rescue stranded boaters
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard medevaced a 58-year-old woman Friday from a cruise ship near Smith Point.
A crewmember aboard the Grandeur of the Seas contacted watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Baltimore at approximately 10 p.m. and requested a medevac for a 58-year-old woman who had sustained injuries during a fall.
OCEAN CITY, MD. (Sept. 17, 2014) — After a busy afternoon on the beach when members of the Ocean City Beach Patrol were preparing to call it a day after pulling five people out of rip currents, including one man who died, when one an off-duty lifeguard noticed a body boarder in distress in the area of 12th Street and the beach who soon became the second fatality in one day.
Ocean City police and fire departments, including the OCFD’s rescue swimmers, also responded to assist. Two of the victims required medical attention and were transported to Atlantic General Hospital by Ocean City EMS. The first victim, a 19-year-old male, was transported with non-life threatening injuries; however, the second victim, a 52-year-old male victim from Huntingdon, PA, was pronounced deceased at approximately 1:30 p.m. at the hospital.
Star-Spangled Spectacular will feature more than 30 naval vessels and tall ships from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Germany, Spain and Turkey. The ships arrive on September 10 and depart on September 16 with public visitation between September 11 – 15, generally from noon until 5:00 PM. This will vary to some degree from ship to ship. Please check individual ship pages by clicking any ship in the list below
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