A Coast Guard Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft crew joined by Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph Avvenire, an intelligence specialist from Sector Houston-Galveston, conducts a damage overflight Sept. 15, 2021, of the Intracoastal Waterway from Galveston, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana, following Tropical Storm Nicholas. Damage assessments following major storms are essential to ensuring port infrastructures and navigable waterways are safe for vessels. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Dickinson)
Tropical Storm Imelda brought historic rainfall to southeastern Texas and, even though the storm had hit a few days before, the effects were still mounting. Floodwaters caused by the storm posed serious hazards, requiring emergency rescues.
Two barges are lodged beneath the I-10 San Jacinto River Bridge, after nine barges broke away from their moorings at the San Jacinto River Fleet in Houston, Sept. 20, 2019. A unified command consisting of the Coast Guard, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas General Land Office, and Canal Barge Company is responding. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Zimmerman)
HOUSTON — Coast Guard response and incident management teams are coordinating with G & H Towing and T & T Marine Salvage to prevent a disabled tug and barge from running aground on Galveston Island Saturday.
Coast Guard rescues 3 from grounded shrimp boat
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted three men off of a disabled shrimp boat that grounded early Tuesday morning near Pass Cavalo, about 5 miles southeast of Port O’Connor.
