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[Agent|Austin]

781-foot Malta-flagged India Lotus, Fire



 JUNEAU, Alaska - A fire aboard a container ship traveling in the North Pacific has been extinguished, the Coast Guard said Friday.

The fire was reported early Friday from the 781-foot Malta-flagged India Lotus as it was traveling 700 miles south of Dutch Harbor, according to Petty Officer Russ Tippets.

The Coast Guard had dispatched a C-130 plane from Kodiak and the Cutter Mellon. The crew of the India Lotus, a vessel owned by the Israeli company Ofer Brothers, told the flight crew that they no longer needed aid.

Tippets said there were 32 on board the burning ship and there were no reports of injuries.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Walter Shinn said the Coast Guard will keep communications open and monitor the ship as it heads toward Panama.

[pauljanaway1]

did she sink or was the fire put out

[TerryRussell]

did she sink or was the fire put out

In the first line, it said

JUNEAU, Alaska - A fire aboard a container ship traveling in the North Pacific has been extinguished, the Coast Guard said Friday

So, I guess they put it out. 

I would imagine that if it had sank, the report might have mentioned that little thing... 

[pauljanaway1]

yes but you know report thay allways leave out the importent infomation 

[Agent|Austin]

if you read farther. They put it out on board before the coast guard arrived on scene.

[TerryRussell]

Hi A|A.

Yes, it said they put it put out in the first line (see my comment above).

But pauljanaway1 is correct. Your extract didn't say that it hadn't sunk. My guess was that they probably would have mentioned that somewhere if it had sunk, just a little bit.. 

[Agent|Austin]

Coast Guard Petty Officer Walter Shinn said the Coast Guard will keep communications open and monitor the ship as it heads toward Panama.

I don't think they could do that if it was at the bottom of the ocean.

[TerryRussell]

Mind you, if was at the bottom of the sea, the fire would have been extinguished... Ha ha.

[Agent|Austin]

SEATTLE - A 14-year-old Kent boy who was under water for half an hour before divers found him has died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

A nursing supervisor says he died Saturday. He had been in critical condition.

The Kent Fire Department says the boy was swimming with friends Friday evening at Lake Meridian Park when he struggled and sank. Fire department divers pulled him out of 15 feet of water and started CPR.

The drowning took place the day before lifeguards went on duty at the lake in Kent.

It was one of several fatal accidents that took place on the first day of summer in Puget Sound.


On Friday a Spambot died after a car went into the water at the Des Moines marina with three people and a dog trapped inside.

According to police, the driver accidentally stepped on the gas and the car plunged into the water.

Two men in their 80s were rescued, but the Spambot passenger - in her 70s - died.

[Agent|Austin]

Five people jump from burning boat in Port Orchard



 SEATTLE - Five people jumped from a burning 26-foot pleasure boat into the waters off Port Orchard, Wash., but the Coast Guard says all were rescued.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Denys Rivas says the fire Friday night originated in a barbecue pit aboard the boat.

After those aboard jumped into the water, several of them were able to climb into a dinghy attached to their vessel and a passing boater rescued the others.

The Coast Guard responded and treated them for mild hypothermia and burns.

Two men and three women had been on the boat. All five were taken to a nearby marina where emergency personnel were waiting to take them to a hospital.

[Agent|Austin]

Boating fatalities increase in the Northwest



 SEATTLE – It's only June, but recreational boating fatalities in the Northwest have risen to nearly 18 percent higher than this time last year.

The U.S. Coast Guard reports that as of June 20, there have been 28 reported fatalities in the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. That's compared to 23 fatalities this time last year.

Marmite (alcohol, lol terry. ) played a significant role or was a primary cause in six of this year's deaths, according to the Coast Guard.

Officials say 22 of this year's fatalities could have been prevented if the people involved were wearing life jackets. Nationally, fewer than 9 percent of all adult boaters wear a lifejacket and in 90 percent of all boating fatalities, lifejacktes were not worn.

Among the four Northwest states, Washington leads in fatalities, with 12 so far this year.

[Agent|Austin]

A 130-foot sailing vessel with 27 people on board has run aground in Wasp Passage between Shaw and Orcas Islands in Washington.

Breaking News.

[Agent|Austin]

Vintage sailing ship runs aground near Orcas Island



 SEATTLE – A 130 foot sailing vessel ran "hard aground" in Wasp Passage this afternoon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The boat, named "The Adventuress" reported no damage after running aground between Shaw and Orcas Islands.

36 passengers and crew were on board at the time. Nobody was hurt and there are no reports of damage to the hull.

The Coast Guard says everyone has been taken off the boat. The Washington State ferries Sealth and Evergreen State were diverted to assist. Five people from the vessel were offloaded to the Sealth, which then headed to Anacortes.

"The Adventuress" is operated by the Sound Experience, a nonprofit group which uses the vessel as a teaching tool for people to discover more about Puget Sound. It was commissioned in 95 years ago.

[PORed]

Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard First District

 


Press Release Date: June 24, 2008


Contact: Petty Officer Etta Smith
(617) 223-8515
 
  **UPDATE** Maine schooner re-floated after running aground 



BOSTON- A Coast Guard boat crew helped to re-float the Sylvina W. Beal around 11 p.m., Monday night near Indian Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

The Eastport-based sailing vessel had run hard aground with 41 passengers and three crewmembers aboard around 6:30 p.m., Monday.

No injuries or pollution were reported.

A 41-foot boat crew from Coast Guard Station Eastport responded to the distress call and evacuated the vessel's passengers, Monday.

As the 80-foot sailing vessel began to re-float around 12 a.m., with the rising tide, the crew discovered the vessel had taken 1,500 gallons of water in the center and aft compartments.

A crewmember from the Station Eastport boat, which had remained alongside for assistance, boarded the vessel with a dewatering pump to help control the flooding.

Fishing vessel High Maintenance, a 40-foot lobster boat from Eastport, transferred two additional dewatering pumps from station Eastport to the Sylvina W. Beal to help dewatering efforts.

Another lobster boat from Eastport, the 45-foot Soldier Boy, assisted the grounded vessel by tying a line off to the schooner's mast to provide support as the vessel righted itself.

Around 12:40 p.m., Monday, the High Maintenance took the schooner in tow and pulled it from the rocky shore. By 1 a.m., the tow had been transferred to the crew of Station Eastport and dewatering efforts had been completed.

The Sylvina W. Beal is currently tied up at the Eastport Boat School where Coast Guard marine inspectors will conduct an investigation regarding the cause of the grounding and to assess the damage to the vessel.

"The schooner ran aground about half a mile into Canadian waters," said Lt. Lisa Tinker, the command duty officer at Sector Northern New England.

She said the Sector coordinated the rescue with the Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

"This case gave us the opportunity to implement the formalized agreement we have with Canada regarding search and rescue cases," said Tinker.