CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Mike Nosbaum (right) and Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Cunningham, both from Marine Safety Detachment Humboldt Bay, address concerns of a local fis More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Nick DeBrum, Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Griffin, Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott Wingfield and Petty Officer 3rd class Adam Plourde, from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound in Seattle, displ More
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeremiah Winston, a marine science technician stationed at Coast Guard Sector San Francisco, pauses after evaluating the scene of a partially sunken dredge barge, June More
ANTIOCH, Calif. - Responders from the U.S. Coast Guard, Office of the Contra Costa Sheriff, Contra Costa Health Services and others deploy containment boom around a partially sunken barge with the help of a 25- More
ANTIOCH, Calif. - A 25-foot response boat crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Rio Vista ensures containment boom is positioned correctly around a partially sunken barge June 10, 2010. Coast Guard members from th More
A 25-foot response boat crew from Station Rio Vista ensures containment boom is positioned correctly around a partially sunken barge June 10, 2010. Coast Guard members from the Coast Guard Sector San Francisco More
ANTIOCH, Calif. - Melissa Hagen, a hazardous materials specialist of the Contra Costa Health Serivices, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Lucas Martin, a marine science technician stationed at Coast Guard More
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Pollution-cleanup workers deploy containment boom around a partially sunken dredge barge, June 10, 2010. Coast Guard members from the Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Incident Management Team More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- National Response Corporation Environmental Service workers, contracted by a Unified Command comprised of Coast Guard and California Department Fish and Game personnel and local harbor More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - National Response Corporation Environmental Service workers, contracted by a Unified Command comprised of Coast Guard and California Department Fish and Game personnel and local harbor m More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - A friend of the owner of the sailboat that washed ashore Friday during the tsunami salvages the owner's personal property, Saturday, March 12, 2011. The tsunami resulted from an 8.9 magn More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - A National Response Corporation Environmental Service workers, contracted by a Unified Command comprised of Coast Guard and California Department Fish and Game personnel and local harbor More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- Friends of a sailboat owner whose boat washed ashore during Friday's tsunami help salvage the owner's personal property, Saturday, March 12, 2011. The tsunami resulted from an 8.9 magni More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - Community members gather around the inner harbor to observe damages left by Friday's tsunami, Saturday, March 12, 2011. The tsunami resulted from an 8.9 magnitude earthquake that occurre More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Alexander, from Marine Safety Detachment Humboldt Bay, checks on the status of a catamaran that's anchored in the outer harbor during heavy win More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- National Response Corporation Environmental Service workers secure a fishing boat adrift in the inner harbor, Monday, March 14, 2011. A tsunami, which resulted from an 8.9 magnitude ear More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Alexander, from Marine Safety Detachment Humboldt Bay, communicates with workers of the National Response Corporation Environmental Service, as they deploy More
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- A tsunami response contracted diver checks his equipment as he prepares to dive the inner harbor to assess the status of sunken vessels there, Monday, March 13, 2011. A tsunami, which r More
NEW YORK - Coast Guard crews from Station New York and Sector New York are working with New York Police Department marine units near the capsized tugboat Katherine G at Liberty Island in New York Harbor, Friday More
The Coast Guard and Global Diving and Salvage work to contain the potential pollution of a 67-foot pleasure craft that ran aground near the Everett, Wash., boat launch, Feb. 14, 2014. (Photo by U.S. Coast Guard.)
Crewmembers from Coast Guard Sector Columbia Rivers incident management division check up on an ongoing diesel fuel cleanup effort after two fuel drums started leaking on board the fishing vessel Silver Girl lo More
The tug Vigorous sits at Ballard Oil in the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Oct. 9, 2015. Coast Guard, Washington State Department of Ecology and Global Diving and Salvage are scheduled to remove petroleum products More
The Coast Guard closed a section of the Upper Houston Ship Channel Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, after the tug Annie Moon and attached barge sank across from the Kinder Morgan terminals in Galena Park. The barge was c More
Response personnel deploy containment boom around the Western Yacht Harbor Marina on Lake Union near Seattle, after a fire caused a pollution event, Nov. 2, 2015. Response contractors have deployed 1,000 feet o More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas Debrum a marine science technician and member of the Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound Incident Management Division, inspects the scene of a fire with a member of the Seattle Fire More
The 65-foot fishing vessel Black Fish is pictured after sinking at the Makah Marina in Neah Bay, Wash., Dec. 11, 2015. Responders from the Coast Guard Incident Management Division in Seattle are on scene and Na More
Lt. j.g. Madeline Ede and Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas Debrum, investigators from the Incident Management Division at Sector Puget Sound in Seattle, and Cmdr. Brian Meier, chief of response at sector, discu More
Tyler Edwards and Curtis Chevalier, employees of Global Salvage and Diving, prepare to pump the bilge of an abandoned vessel that was reportedly releasing oil near Port Orchard, Wash., Jan 14, 2016. Pollution r More
Members of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area Strike Team and the Arlington Department of Environmental Services inspect manholes near South Fern Street in Arlington, Va., Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. The agencies are che More
The 34-foot fishing vessel Streaker is pictured after sinking north of Rainbow Bridge near La Conner, Wash., Feb. 17, 2016. The vessel reportedly sank overnight with up to 75 gallons of petroleum product on boa More
A 26-foot cabin cruiser sits partially submerged near Richmond Beach, Wash., March 7, 2016. Coast Guard personnel from Sector Puget Sound, in Seattle, are on scene monitoring cleanup and salvage operations. (U. More
The 74-foot fishing vessel Privateer sinks approximately one mile north of Grays Harbor, Wash. April 15, 2016. The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund was opened to assess the salvaging of the vessel, which was rep More
Coast Guard Sector Columbia River Incident Management Division personnel monitor the clean up operations after a vessel sunk at the Westport Marina, Wash., Sept. 5, 2016. The Coast Guard opened the Oil Spill Li More
A Coast Guard Incident Management Division team, from Sector Columbia River in Warrenton, Ore., and Washington State Department of Ecology personnel respond to the 41-foot vessel Charlotte after it sunk at the More
Coast Guard personnel responded to an oil sheen caused by an unknown source near the Cannery Pier Hotel in Astoria, Ore., January 19, 2018. Coast Guard Incident Management Division Astoria personnel responded t More
Boom contains an oil sheen around a pier near the Cannery Pier Hotel in downtown Astoria, Oregon, Jan. 21, 2018. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River’s Incident Management Division (IMD) team from Astoria conducte More
Soldiers from the Idaho Army National Guard’s Detachment 2, C Company, 1-168th General Support Aviation Battalion were welcomed home from the unit’s deployment to Afghanistan by Gov. Brad Little and senior Idah More
Personnel from Coastal Towing and Salvage remove fuel and other pollution-threat items from the vessel, Island Fever, on Arcadia Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon, March 2, 2020. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ben Card, a marine science technician from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound, responds to a vessel aground near Jefferson Head, Washington, April 8, 2020. The Coast Guard is responding alon More
(From left) Jonathan Conway, lead network engineer, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and U.S. Army Maj. Robert Hjuler, Chief Technology Officer, LRMC, take a look at a network server at LRMC’s Information Mana More
Pat Mahony and Tyler Edwards, technicians from Global Diving and Salvage’s Pacific Northwest region, sound a tank onboard a derelict vessel as part of the vessel’s clean up operation in Port Orchard, Wash., Jan More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas Debrum, a marine science technician, and Cmdr. Brian Meier, chief of response, Sector Puget Sound, discuss incident management operations after arriving on scene to oversee poll More
The 34-foot fishing vessel Streaker is pictured after sinking north of Rainbow Bridge near La Conner, Wash., Feb. 17, 2016. Investigators from the Sector Puget Sound Incident Management Division and Washington More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott Wingfield (left) and Petty Officer 3rd Class Seth Grayson, marine science technicians from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound Incident Management Division, observe a 26-foot cabin crui More
The 74-foot fishing vessel Privateer is seen near the beach at Ocean Shores, Wash. April 16, 2016. Although no pollution has been reported, cleanup coordinators at Coast Guard Incident Management Division Asto More
Coast Guardsmen from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound in Seattle make their way to the summit of Mount Rainier, May 17, 2016. The trip to the top of Washington's tallest peak took the group four days and eight m More
Pictured is the 77-foot fishing vessel Lady Lillian surrounded by boom after it sunk at the Westport Marina, Wash., Sept. 5, 2016. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Columbia River received the report of the s More
The 41-foot vessel Charlotte is surrounded by boom to contain possible pollutants after it sunk at the Westport Marina in Westport, Wash., Nov. 25, 2016. IMD personnel minimize damage caused by pollutants disch More
Coast Guard and local salvage personnel continue cleanup and test waters on the Columbia River near the Cannery Pier Hotel in downtown Astoria, Oregon, Jan. 22, 2018. Coast Guard personnel alongside state, loca More
Personnel from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound and Washington Department of Ecology respond to a vessel hard aground near Jefferson Head, Washington, April 8, 2020. The Coast Guard has contracted Global Diving a More
Employees of Global Diving and Salvage arrive on scene to begin pollution cleanup operations from two abandoned vessels near Port Orchard, Wash., Jan. 14, 2016. Vessel owners who want to relinquish responsibili More
Washington State Department of Ecology personnel deploy boom around the 41-foot vessel Charlotte after it sunk at the Westport Marina in Westport, Wash., Nov. 25, 2016. IMD personnel maintain relationships with More
Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound marine investigator and senior investigators with the Transportation and Safety Board of Canada boarded the 876-foot container ship MOL PRESTIGE on February 12, 2018, at Pier 18 i More