MIAMI – Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew assisted the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with the transfer and disposition of approximately 391 kilos of cocaine worth an estimated value of $7.5 million at the Mayaguana Airport in The Bahamas. Tuesday, March 25, 2024. Operation Bahamas Turks and Leer másCoast Guard and partners seized 391 kg of cocaine in Bahamas[…]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew conducted the medevac of a woman (passenger) from the MS Nieuw Amsterdam cruise ship approximately 100 nautical miles north of Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Monday afternoon, January 15, 2024. A woman, 81-years-old U.S. citizen, who experienced an open fracture injury in her left Leer másCoast Guard MH-60T medevac woman 100 nm off Puerto Rico[…]
MIAMI — A Coast Guard Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescue six sailors after their vessel sank about 30 nautical miles north of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Coast Guard 7th District (Southeast) watchstanders received a request for assistance from the Dominican Republic Navy, after six people Leer másCoast Guard MH-60T rescue 6 sailors off Dominican Republic[…]
MIAMI — The Coast Guard 7th District and the U.S. Department of State welcomed foreign and federal partners to Miami for the inaugural Northern Caribbean Security Summit (NOCSS), Wednesday through Friday last week. Leaders, military, and law enforcement representatives from The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United Kingdom and United States discussed shared regional Leer másU.S. Government hosts inaugural Northern Caribbean Security Summit[…]
MIAMI — A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew rescue a man northeast off Turks and Caicos Thursday, after his vessel became disabled 155 nautical miles offshore. District Seven watchstanders received an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) alert from the vessel Erin Kjrra’s owner Wednesday, alerting them of his distress at approximately Leer másCoast Guard rescue man 155 nm off Turks and Caicos[…]
MIAMI — A deployed Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescue aircrew assisted Turks and Caicos police and marine units in finding 159 people approximately 13 miles east of West Caicos Island, Turks and Caicos. While the aircrew remained on scene, TCI responders removed all the people from the sail freighter and brought Leer másCoast Guard, TCI Police rescue 159 people off Turks and Caicos[…]
MIAMI — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medevac a 34-year-old fisherman from the fishing vessel, Chin, near Raccoon Island, Bahamas, Monday. The Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter is encounted deployed in support of Operations Bahamas, Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), the aircrew responded to emergency and launched to the vessel coordenades. Over the fishing Leer másCoast Guard medevac 34-year-old fisherman near Raccoon Island, Bahamas[…]
MIAMI — The USCG, along with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air Marine Operation (CBP-AMO), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) interdicted four Bahamian suspected drug smugglers, Monday, approximately 10 miles south of the Exuma Island chain in the Bahamas. Coast Guard 7th District watchstanders initially received a report Leer másCoast Guard, CBP-AMO, DEA and RBPF interdicted four Bahamian suspected drug smugglers[…]
