April 27, 2015 — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a fishing boat that was sinking off the New Jersey Shore over the weekend.
The Coast Guard said the boat began taking in water Sunday afternoon, when it was about 20 miles east of Manasquan Inlet.
April 27, 2015 — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a fishing boat that was sinking off the New Jersey Shore over the weekend.
The Coast Guard said the boat began taking in water Sunday afternoon, when it was about 20 miles east of Manasquan Inlet.
April 21, 2015 — The crew of a fishing boat made an unexpected trip to Gloucester over the weekend.
U.S. Coast Guard teams from Station Gloucester and the cutter Legare, based in Portsmouth, Va., responded to the Angela Michelle, a 61-foot trawler fishing vessel around 115 miles east of Gloucester, after the crew reported the vessel’s anchor became wrapped around the ship’s propeller and rudder, according to an official Coast Guard statement.
The four-person fishing crew was still in Gloucester around noon on Monday, according to Roff Ruddell, Coast Guard public affairs specialist.
“I don’t know if they’ve actually unwrapped their line yet,” he said.
Records indicate that the vessel is based out of Dover, N.H., and is owned by Carter Fisheries. Officials with Carter Fisheries did not return phone calls Sunday seeking comment.
Ruddell said he didn’t know what the crew was fishing for.
According to the Coast Guard, the fishing vessel’s crew was met by the crew of the Legare, a 270-foot “medium endurance cutter from Portsmouth, Va.,” which began towing the stranded Angela Michelle.
April 3, 2015 — A man who was reported missing at sea for about two months was rescued from his crippled boat approximately 200 miles off North Carolina on Thursday afternoon, according to authorities.
Louis Jordan, 37, sailing a vessel named Angel, was reported missing by family Jan. 29, according to a news release from the Coast Guard 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth, Va.
According to Coast Guard spokeswoman Lt. Krystyn Pecora, Jordan had been traveling north when he decided to head offshore to go fishing. Somewhere along the way, he got caught in rough weather, and the boat's mast was broken and its electronic system damaged, Pecora said at a news conference Thursday night.
His boat severely damaged, Jordan was adrift, and the vessel capsized three times, he told NBC News. "I was flying through the air, somersaulting and everything was upside down and backwards," he said.
He survived by eating some food he had on board, fishing with a net and collecting rainwater, Pecora said.
Speaking at a hospital in Norfolk, Va., Jordan told WAVY.com early Friday that “I rationed my water to where I had drunk about a pint a day. For such a long a time I was so thirsty. And I was almost out of water, and everyday I was like, 'Please God, send me some rain, send me some water,'" he said. "And finally, right before I ran out of water, finally the conditions were perfect."
He read the Bible repeatedly, cover to cover, he told NBC News, and missed barbecue and organic ice cream the most.
Read the full story and watch the video at the LA Times
April 2, 2015 — The last time Frank Jordan spoke with his son, Louis Jordan was fishing on a sailboat a few miles off the South Carolina coast.
The next time he spoke with him, more than two months had passed and the younger Jordan was on a German-flagged container ship 200 miles from North Carolina, just rescued from his disabled boat.
"I thought I lost you," the relieved father said.
Louis Jordan, 37, took his 35-foot sailboat out in late January and hadn't been heard from in 66 days when he was spotted Thursday afternoon by the Houston Express on his ship drifting in the Atlantic Ocean.
"I was utterly thankful and grateful to the people who rescued me, and I was grateful to God that my parents were not going to be worried about me," Jordan told CNN.
Frank Jordan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he had worried about his son, who is an inexperienced sailor, but he held hope because his son had a good boat. And he had the strength to make it.
"He's got very strong constitution and (is strong) not only physically, but spiritually," Frank Jordan told CNN. "And he told me on the phone that he was praying the whole time, so I believe that sustained him a great deal."
Read the full story and watch the video at CNN
March 30, 2014 — UPDATE: The body of an overboard crewman has been found. In a follow-up release, the USCG said the crew of the New Bedford-based Hear No Evil, found and positively identified the crewman around 1 a.m. Monday. He was reportedly not wearing a life jacket when he entered the water, USCG said. The crewman's body was transported ashore at Woods Hole by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Hammerhead. The victim's name has not yet been released.
The United States Coast Guard is searching for a crewman who went missing aboard a scalloping vessel Sunday night. According to a USCG release, Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England watchstanders were notified around 8:30 p.m. that a 54-year-old crew member was missing from the 85-foot Hear No Evil. It is likely the unidentifed crewman fell overboard, according to the release.
March 23, 2015 — The fishing vessel industry fatality rate is 30 times higher than the average of all U.S. industries. To address this, U.S. legislation requires that all new fishing vessels larger than 50 feet must be built to classification rules.
DNV GL is the only classification society to develop rules specifically for the U.S. domestic fishing fleet, addressing how fishing vessels are designed, built and maintained for safety.
The United States is the fifth largest fishing nation in the world, with approximately 110,000 commercial vessels. This means that there are more than 100,000 U.S. fishermen who have their daily work in fishing vessels that often operate in harsh conditions and rough weather. All new vessels built to DNV GL’s class rules will be safer,” said Joar Bengaard who leads DNV GL’s initiative for U.S. fishing vessels from the U.S. HQ in Houston, Texas.
Read the full story from Maritime Reporter
March 13, 2015 — The Coast Guard rescued a stranded fishing vessel 32 miles east of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Wednesday.
Watchstanders at Sector Southeast New England in Woods Hole, Massachusetts received a distress call via channel 16 VHF from the five-person crew aboard the 75-foot scallop vessel Hunter, that they were adrift without power after their main engine failed.
The Coast Guard attempted to reach nearby mariners to assist the Hunter, but none were able. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tybee, a 110-foot patrol boat from Woods Hole launched, arrived on scene, and took the Hunter in tow toward Nantucket Sound.
Read the full story at Cape Cod Today
March 2, 2015 — Icebound fishing vessels in Bremen got a helping hand from the U.S. Coast Guard when the Rockland-based cutter Tackle came to town on an ice-breaking mission Feb. 24.
The 65-foot small harbor ice breaker was operating near the Bremen Lobster Pound Co-Op in the early afternoon after requests for ice-breaking in that area, according to Lt. David Bourbeau, chief of the Waterways Management Division for Coast Guard Sector Northern New England.
The Tackle was headed to Friendship on Feb. 24 to break out the fishing fleet there when requests for assistance in Bremen came in, according to Bourbeau.
Breaking loose a wide swath of ice, the Tackle appeared to free five vessels near the co-op before heading south and apparently away from Bremen.
Read the full story at the Bangor Daily News
WOODS HOLE, Mass. — March 2, 2015 — For the second time in two days, the icy waters off Cape Cod have stranded a fishing crew.
The Coast Guard said that at about 3 p.m. Saturday, the four-person crew on the Capt. RM Chase called for help after getting stuck in ice while heading back to New Bedford from a fishing trip.
Read the full story from CBS Boston
February 14, 2015 — Rescuers on Saturday reached a fishing boat with 26 people aboard trapped in ice near Antarctica and plan to use an unmanned underwater vehicle to assess the damage to it.
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star traveled several hundred nautical miles through heavy ice to reach the Antarctic Chieftan.
Authorities said the Australian fishing boat suffered damage to three of its four propeller blades and lost its ability to maneuver after becoming stuck in the ice Wednesday.
Polar Star Commanding Officer Capt. Matthew Walker said in a statement that the conditions were more formidable than expected, with heavy snow and large icebergs. "We are on scene and progressing well with the rescue," he said.
Once the Polar Star breaks the ice around the fishing boat, the Coast Guard crew will lower a remotely operated vehicle into the water for a better look at the boat's propeller blades.
The plan is then for the Polar Star to free the fishing boat, and, if necessary, tow it from the ice field.
Read the full story from the Associated Press at the New York Daily News