Coast Guard: little hope of survivors
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The Coast Guard suspended its search for six people lost for three days in the frigid Bering Sea after the crash of a rescue helicopter that had plucked them from a broken freighter.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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With the weather improving Sunday, the Coast Guard planned to send a helicopter to lower a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast -- a
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Accounts from the survivors of an ordeal that killed about 50 people stranded at sea have gripped the Dominican Republic.
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As evacuation orders come down, homeowners ask: What really matters? What can't be replaced?
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  NEW BEDFORD - A stoic vigil by families waiting for word on the fishermen lost in the frigid sea off Nantucket erupted into tears and wails of grief yesterday as they got the call they dreaded: At least one body has been recovered from the sunken Lady of Grace.
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PETALING JAYA: A US Coast Guard helicopter which was trying to rescue crew members from a disabled freighter - the Malaysian-flagged Selendang Ayu â-rashed in the Bering Sea, Alaska, in rough conditions on Thursday.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Margo Marks operates a ferry service on Lake Michigan and has nothing but respect for the Coast Guard. But she shudders at the thought of machine gun bullets whizzing over the water.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float miles out to sea.
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A 92-foot crab boat with six crew members sank in the Bering Sea on Saturday, and the Coast Guard was searching for survivors. Three crewmen have been recovered, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said, but she would not say whether they survived.
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GRAND MANAN, New Brunswick -- The Canadian Coast Guard showed its flag and some muscle yesterday as it patrolled the Bay of Fundy near a tiny island claimed by both Canada and the United States.
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By ERIN RICHARDS  Instead of firing its new machine guns on Lake Michigan Thursday, Milwaukee's Coast Guard unit was forced to postpone its scheduled training mission and end the day "shooting" brooms while navigating a course of buckets on the lawn.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for six boaters and said it was investigating the distress calls about their small craft taking on water as a possible hoax.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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By Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 19--Bowing to pressure from a wide-ranging group of critics, the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday backed off from plans to permanently conduct live fire exercises on the Great Lakes.
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Officials shifted their focus from  rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on  Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship  split apart two days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.