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On Sunday, August 10, around 4 p.m., the U.S. Coast Guard received a report that the 40-foot fishing vessel Das Bug, carrying four people, had taken on water and capsized while entering Yaquina Bay near Newport, Oregon. A 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay responded, rescuing three individuals from the water. […]

In Astoria, Oregon, Coast Guard crews from two districts responded to a distress call from the Defiant, a 97-foot fishing vessel that reported being disabled and adrift at 6:42 a.m. on Sunday, August 3. Due to the vessel’s distance from shore, watchstanders from the Coast Guard’s Southwest District dispatched the cutter Alder to assist. The

On Easter Sunday, the Coast Guard medevaced a 30-year-old male crewmember from the National Geographic Venture, about 15 miles off Coos Bay, Oregon. The crew reported the man was suffering from severe vomiting and shortness of breath. After consulting a flight surgeon, a helicopter from Air Station North Bend hoisted the patient at 8 a.m.

On January 8, 2019, commercial fisherman and deckhand Joshua Porter went to work, scared of entering a dangerous storm off the coast of Oregon. That day, the entire crew drowned after the boat overturned in an unsuccessful attempt to sail through the Yaquina Bay Bar.  Now, over five years later, the U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation