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Coast Guard Foundation Recognizes Sector Nola For Hurricane Ida Response

April 20, 2022

The Coast Guard Foundation held its annual tribute to the Eighth Coast Guard District March 11 at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. During the event, the foundation honored… Read More

MVTTC Conference Returns After COVID Hiatus Caption for photo: Capt. Will Watson, captain of U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, speaks at the podium; next to him are Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition and Eddie Belk, director of programs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Caption for photo: Capt. Will Watson, captain of U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, speaks at the podium; next to him are Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition and Eddie Belk, director of programs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

MVTTC Conference Returns After COVID Hiatus

March 11, 2022

After canceling its 2021 meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (MVTTC) held its annual conference February 24, marking the group’s 40th anniversary. Held… Read More

MVTTC To Hold 40th Anniversary Conference

January 10, 2022

After a hiatus in 2021 due to COVID-19, the Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (MVTTC) is set to hold its annual conference again in 2022, this time marking the… Read More

Hurricane Ida Slams Southeast Louisiana On Katrina Anniversary Two tank barges left high and dry by the Hurricane Ida storm surge. (Photo by Capt. David Mark Poindexter)

Two tank barges left high and dry by the Hurricane Ida storm surge. (Photo by Capt. David Mark Poindexter)

Hurricane Ida Slams Southeast Louisiana On Katrina Anniversary

September 3, 2021

Hurricane Ida made a pair of landfalls at Grand Isle and Port Fourchon in southeast Louisiana August 29 near midday as a strong Category 4 storm. Ida came ashore with… Read More

Coast Guard Suspends Search-And-Rescue Efforts At Seacor Power, Recovery Ongoing

April 23, 2021

At sundown April 19, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended search-and-rescue efforts at the liftboat Seacor Power, the vessel that capsized April 13 in the Gulf of Mexico just south of… Read More

Liftboat Capsizes In Gulf Of Mexico, Coast Guard Conducts Search And Rescue A Coast Guard Station Grand Isle 45-foot response boat-medium boat crew heads toward a capsized commerical lift boat April 13. The Coast Guard and multiple good Samaritan vessels responded to the capsized vessel and searched for multiple missing people in the water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Cutter Glenn Harris)

A Coast Guard Station Grand Isle 45-foot response boat-medium boat crew heads toward a capsized commerical lift boat April 13. The Coast Guard and multiple good Samaritan vessels responded to the capsized vessel and searched for multiple missing people in the water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Cutter Glenn Harris)

Liftboat Capsizes In Gulf Of Mexico, Coast Guard Conducts Search And Rescue

April 19, 2021

The liftboat Seacor Power, part of Seacor Marine’s fleet of more than a dozen self-propelled and self-raising vessels that serve the offshore oil, gas and wind industries, capsized April 13… Read More

Watson Succeeds Luttrell As Commander Of Sector Nola From left, Cmdr. Richard M. Scott, Capt. Scott A. Stoermer and Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott A. Manfre, command senior chief, Sector Upper Mississippi, are shown at the sector’s May 27 change of command ceremony, during which Stoermer passed command to Scott. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Monika Spies)

From left, Cmdr. Richard M. Scott, Capt. Scott A. Stoermer and Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott A. Manfre, command senior chief, Sector Upper Mississippi, are shown at the sector’s May 27 change of command ceremony, during which Stoermer passed command to Scott. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Monika Spies)

Watson Succeeds Luttrell As Commander Of Sector Nola

June 8, 2020

U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans held a change of command ceremony May 29, with Capt. Kristi Luttrell—upon completing two years as sector commander and captain of the Port of… Read More