ISLE AU HAUT — The Coast Guard is searching near the coast of Maine for a missing kayaker. The Coast Guard says Matt Grabowski missed his scheduled check-in call on Thursday. Grabowski, who is on a several-day kayaking and camping trip, was supposed to be kayaking around Isle au Haut. He’s expected to be in […]
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BIW competing to build U.S. Coast Guard cutters
BATH — Bath Iron Works remains in the running to design and build next-generation patrol cutters for the Coast Guard, according to a statement issued Tuesday by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King. A Coast Guard request for proposals to design and build offshore patrol cutters drew submissions from eight shipyards before a Jan. […]
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F-16 crash in Atlantic forces tricky rescue
The night-vision image in the rescue helicopter showed a downed pilot in a life raft bobbing 35 miles from the Atlantic shoreline, but when Brian Fogle got ready to plunge down to him, the midnight sky and sea melded into inky blackness. And then he stepped out that door and slid down a line into […]