U.S. Coast Guard

S.F. Deputy Michael Roberts' Body Found Near Vallejo Marina

Authorities discovered the body of 56-year-old Michael Roberts, a veteran deputy with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, near Dock B in the Vallejo Marina yesterday afternoon. Earlier that morning, police had found Roberts' unmanned boat adrift near the Vallejo Municipal Marina; his keys were ... More >>

Pilot of Tanker that Hit Bay Bridge Was Involved in Three Other Accidents Since 2009

The pilot operating the tanker that hit the Bay Bridge yesterday morning had been in three other accidents since 2009, the Associated Press reported. Guy Kleess, who has been licensed to handle big vessels in Northern California waters since 2005, was found responsible for two of those accidents. T ... More >>

Juan Escamillo-Rojas and Juan Escamillo-Savoy Identified as Father and Son Who Died While Fishing

The Marin County Coroner has identified the father and son pulled from the water near the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday as 37-year-old Juan Escamillo-Rojas, and his 9-year-old son, Juan Escamillo-Savoy, both San Francisco residents. The family had been fishing in the Marin Headlands at Bonita Cove ... More >>

Top 10 Bay Area Music Scandals of 2012

The Bay Area music scene had a particular flair for making headlines for reasons other than actual music in 2012. Some of these 10 incidents are totally tabloid, others are cold and criminal, but none of them are boring. From Ecstasy rings and instrument thievery to lascivious infidelity and shockin ... More >>

Missing Fisherman Found Dead

Sad news: The Coast Guard is reporting that one of the fishermen who have been missing since Sunday morning has been found dead. According to press reports, family members who had been scouring the beaches off San Mateo County coast found the body of one of the men. The Medical Examiner's Office has ... More >>

Coast Guard Resumes Search for Missing Fisherman

Authorities are still scouring the waters this morning, looking for two fisherman who went missing after their boat capsized yesterday morning off the coast of San Mateo County where swells reached seven feet. According to press reports, an 18-foot striper boat was knocked over at about 10:30 a.m. ... More >>

Christopher Maffei, Father of Abducted Children, Claims Kids Were Being Abused

Christopher Maffei, 43, appeared in court today, but did not enter a plea to felony charges of kidnapping his two young children and stealing a yacht. Maffei -- who has been charged with eight felony counts of kidnapping, burglary, and child endangerment -- claimed that he snatched his children to p ... More >>

Cops Say They Have Spotted Stolen Yacht With Kidnapped Kids

This morning, officials spotted a yacht they believe was stolen by a man who allegedly kidnapped his two toddlers. The 40-foot boat was located about 50 miles off the coast near Pillar Point in San Mateo County, investigators told media outlets. Police and Coast Guard vessels have been dispatched t ... More >>

SFPD Warning Kids Not to Attend Illegal Rave Planned for Tomorrow Night

San Francisco police are asking all you ravers to leave your pacifiers at home and stay away from Treasure Island this weekend, where an illegal rave is reportedly being planned. Officer Albie Esparza tells us that a parent tipped off SFPD, saying that kids are planning to attend this rave on Yerba ... More >>

Drunk Man Might Have Fallen in The Bay After Giants Game

The Coast Guard spent the night scouring above the Bay, looking for a man that may or may not have fallen into the water after drinking too much at the Giants game last night. According to ABC News, the man's friend said they had parked their car at Pier 32 near AT&T Park. After watching the Gia ... More >>

"The Invisible War": Military Sexual Predators Revealed

Body Washed Up at Bodega Bay Might Be Sailor From Farallon Islands Accident

Authorities say they might have recovered the body of one of the sailors who went missing after a boating accident near the Farallon Islands earlier this month.Tourists spotted the body at the base of the cliff at Bodega Head Tuesday evening, but helicopters couldn't see anything "due to the darkne ... More >>

Coast Guard Ends Search for Missing Sailors at Farallon Islands

After 24 hours of scouring the waters, the Coast Guard announced last night that it was suspending its search for the four sailors who went missing in a boating accident over the weekend, and would not resume the search today. Authorities explained to the press their reason for ending the search, sa ... More >>

Man Jumps from Pier After "Aggravating" Phone Call

Mila Zinkova​The U.S. Coast Guard has been scouring the waters of the San Francisco Bay since last night when a man reportedly jumped from a pier near Fort Mason after what appeared to be an irritating phone conversation.According to news outlets, set-up crews for a business party event reported s ... More >>

Thomas Gregoire, Lost Kayaker, Presumed Dead

Gregoire never resurfaced after his kayak capsized​Authorities searched well into the morning for Thomas Gregoire, the 55-year-old man who has been missing since his kayak capsized at Pier 80 in San Francisco yesterday afternoon. Gregoire was paddling back from Candlestick Park with friends at abo ... More >>

Five Things You Can Do If You Find a Lightly Used Prosthetic Limb

This morning, we woke up to the bizarre story by Chron columnist C.W. Nevius -- and no, it wasn't about feces on the street. Instead, he tells us a lovely vignette about Al Fraser, a local fisherman who stumbled across an artificial leg in the bay. "I looked at it and it is almost new,'' Fraser tell ... More >>

Another Teen Jumps off Golden Gate Bridge, Survives

Suicide attempt ​Last month, a Sonoma County teen got the attention he was looking for when he jumped 250 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge during a school field trip for shits and giggles -- although nobody was laughing. That incident seems even less humorous after this weekend when another teen j ... More >>

Boater Presumed Dead After Ship Sinks Near S.F

JunBelen/FlickrRough waters expected in San Francisco this week. Be careful.​The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a 53-year-old man who jumped from his sinking ship near the San Francisco coast this weekend after the life jacket he had been wearing washed up on Ocean Beach early ... More >>

Mavericks: Coast Guard Bans Spectator Boats From Waves

Matt SmithLike, a little space, dude​The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a special federal rule banning spectator boats from encroaching on giant waves during the annual Mavericks surfing  contest. The new rule will let boats affiliated with the contest tow surfers toward big waves and cruise ne ... More >>

Man Stranded 5 Days on Island During Rubber Raft Voyage Still Wants To Reach San Francisco

Soon to be in San Francisco​A man attempting to paddle a rubber raft from Sacramento to San Francisco was stranded for five days on a small island in the Delta. Notwithstanding, the 54-year-old Northridge resident plans on continuing his voyage to San Francisco, said Levi Read, a spokesman for the ... More >>

Unmanned Boat Collides with San Francisco Pier

Next stop: Pier 70​"Worse things happen at sea," is a common, if not sensitive, way of telling someone that things could be far worse for him. It's also an applicable utterance when considering a bizarre incident in the Bay yesterday. Boater Rick Saber plunged off his 32-foot vessel, the Eagle, ye ... More >>

Body Discovered on Ocean Beach

View Larger MapThe Medical Examiner's office reports it has just sent personnel to Ocean Beach after the body of a man believed to be in his 60s washed up there near Balboa Street. This follows a woman in her 50s washing up yesterday following a deadly sailing accident near the Cliff House. It is be ... More >>

Investigators to Inspect Dead Couple's Beached Boat

View Larger MapNational Park Service investigators will be poring over the 33-foot boat of a couple killed yesterday off Ocean Beach in an attempt to answer what compelled a middle-aged couple to head overboard to their deaths. "We don't know why the boat was in distress and we don't know why the pe ... More >>

Elizabeth and Jeffery Easterling, Killed in San Francisco Boating Accident

Exclusive to SF WeeklyElizabeth and Jeffery Easterling's empty boat washed ashore near Eagle Point​The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office moments ago identified the couple killed in a Sunday boating accident off Ocean Beach as Elizabeth and Jeffery Easterling. The El Sobrante couple, 50 and 5 ... More >>

Autopsy Today For Woman Discovered in Suitcase

KTVU-TVA grim discovery on the waterfront...​The dead woman found crumpled into a suitcase floating off Folsom and Embarcadero yesterday will go under the knife at the Medical Examiner's office. Details are scarce; the Medical Examiner would not this morning release the identity of the victim. Cal ... More >>

All That Shooting You Hear? Don't Worry About It.

​If you hear loud gunfire noises emanating from across the bay at around lunchtime, worry not. No one is shooting up a church and Vallejo is a long way off. What you may be hearing is a 21-gun salute -- it is President's Day -- by the Coast Guard on Alameda. If the shooting isn't coming from Alame ... More >>

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SF Weekly Letters

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Newsom's Cosco Busan Oil Spill 'Local Emergency' Declaration Misses Boat

Leak From the Deep

Nobody knows for sure what kind of oily polutant is seeping into the water at Fisherman's Wharf

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Last Voyage of the Relentless

Friends and family of a well-known fishing captain are convinced he and his deckhand were victims of a maritime hit-and-run near the Golden Gate

That Sinking Feeling

Coast Guard epic succumbs to watery cliches

Horns Aplenty

All Yours

Yours, Mine & Ours lowers the bar for miserable remakes

Hey, Sailor!

Salty young dogs party on

House Of Tudor

Morbid Curiosity's issue six, F-Hole's punk video party, and Crane's sonic mytho-poetry

Too Close for Comfort

The weird coincidences between last week's terrorist attacks and David Hagberg's novels have been keeping the author up at night

The Perfect Spoiler

George Clooney stars in The Perfect Storm

Night Crawler

To the Farallones

No Fishin'

The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

Night Crawler

Ship Happens

"Traffic," Bar Pilot Donald Hughes barks. "I need some help." The tanker Mundogas Europe has just lost her steering beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, and if the anhydrous ammonia she's carrying hits the water a toxic cloud could cloak San Francisco. A di