Shifting lanes – Coast Guard members observe ‘Bike to Work’ Day
Story and photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart Coast Guard members stationed at Base Alameda, Calif., helped out at an energizer station at the entrance of Coast Guard Island for the cycling community in support of “Bike to Work [...]
California’s Keeper Recovers Drifting Buoy
Story by Lt. Collin R. Bronson The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb, working with the National Data Buoy Center, recently recovered a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather data buoy approximately 100 miles west of San Diego, [...]
MSD Santa Barbara — Rising to the challenge of panga boats
Story by LT Jeff Fry The call from the command center usually comes late at night: “Marine Safety Detachment Santa Barbara, we have another panga on the beach and we need you to respond!” Over the past year, this call [...]
Connecting With the Public – Sector Los Angeles Hosts Commercial Fishing Industry Day
Story by Ensign Michael Schuetzler If ever there was a profession that pitted man against nature, it would be fishing. On Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, a diverse team of Coast Guard experts combined their various seamanship and technology skills in [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Aspen: Superior Technology, Superior Performance
Story by Ensign Sarah Otey It was a bright and chilly morning in late December 2012 as the Coast Guard Cutter Aspen sliced her way through the calm waters of San Francisco Bay toward the more turbulent winter seas of [...]
Coast Guard members give back to community with park cleanup
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas McKenzie ALAMEDA, Calif. – A group of ten Coast Guard personnel and their family members gathered in Union Point Park in Oakland on Monday to assist with a park cleanup. The park, adjacent to [...]
The greatest show on H2O
Story by Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz America’s Cup sailed into San Francisco Bay with all the thunder and excitement of a NASCAR race — even supplying the occasional high-speed crash — all while numerous Coast Guard and local law [...]
Who speaks for the seas?
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Pamela J. Boehland. The large, green generators in the engine room of a 292-foot ship moored to a pier in San Francisco grind to life, filling the enclosed space with machine-produced roar. Coast Guard [...]
Cutter Edisto helps wayward sea lion
Saving the life of an injured fisherman or a boater lost at sea is nothing new for the Coast Guard. But every once in a while the Coast Guard gets to save another kind of life – an animal’s. As [...]
