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VINEYARD SOUND, Mass. - Boston Bruins hockey player Shawn Thornton pilots Coast Guard Station Menemsha's 47-foot boat through Vineyard Sound during his day with the Coast Guard Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. Thornton was given a tour of Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, Station Woods Hole, and Air Station Cape Cod and had the oppotunity to get underway, climb into a helicopter and a falcon jet, fast-rope from a training tower and witness tactical law-enforcement training. (USCG Photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Jorgensen)
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- PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard releases photos, video of capsized vessel rescue
- Follow the interagency Arctic awareness trip via social media
- Coast Guard to award good Samaritans for role in recent rescue
- Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville to host Change of Command Ceremony
- Coast Guard saves 6 from capsized vessel, locates body of possible 7th passenger
- Coast Guard reports a rise in 2008 recreational boating fatalities
- 08-12-09 Coast Guard Auxiliary rescues two near Chicago.
- 08-12-09 Coast Guard medevacs woman from Mackinac Island
- Coast Guard medevacs U.S. woman, Canadian man with possible heart problems
- Media Availability -- Arctic media flight from Anchorage to Coast Guard operations in Nome
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