NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing 42-year-old man in the James River, Monday.

Coast Guard crews searched more than 230 miles for approximately three hours.

Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads watchstanders had received a call at approximately 4:30 p.m. from Newport News dispatch, reporting the man missing from a 22-foot sailing vessel.

Sector Hampton Roads issued an urgent marine information broadcast and launched rescue boat crews from Station Portsmouth and a rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City.

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NEW YORK-U.S. Coast Guard Cadet 1st Class Jonas Miller unfurls an American flag alongside members and veterans of the armed services, during a Memorial Day celebration on the deck of the USS Intrepid in Manhattan, N.Y., May 30, 2011.

Unfurling the flag aboard the deck of the Intrepid has become a tradition during New York City’s Fleet Week, a celebration of American and foreign marine services.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Seth Johnson

NEW YORK-U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Daniel Neptun, Commander of the Coast Guard’s 1st District, unfurls an American flag alongside members and veterans of the armed services, during a Memorial Day service on the deck of the USS Intrepid in Manhattan, N.Y., May 30, 2011.

Unfurling the flag aboard the deck of the Intrepid has become a tradition during New York City’s Fleet Week, a celebration of American and foreign marine services.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Seth Johnson

NEW YORK-A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City leaps from a rescue helicopter during a search and rescue display alongside the USS Intrepid in Manhattan, N.Y., May 30, 2011.

New York’s fleet week is a celebration of American and foreign sea services, allowing people to go aboard their boats and see demonstrations of what sea going services do while away.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Seth Johnson

UPDATE: Coast Guard, agencies continue to search for possible missing swimmer

SAN DIEGO – The Coast Guard continues to search Monday morning for a possible missing swimmer near Oceanside, Calif., who has been missing since Sunday evening.

The Joint Harbor Operations Center (JHOC) in San Diego received a call for assistance from the Oceanside Harbor Police just before 8:00 p.m., Sunday, requesting help in the search of a report of a man wearing a wet suit about 200 yards from shore near the Oceanside Pier who appeared to be in distress.

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Sector San Diego continues to search the area Monday morning as well as the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin, homeported in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Two harbor police boats initially started searching the area where the man was last reported to be seen, and lifeguards and members of the fire department also aided in the search.

At 8:20 p.m., Sunday, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Sector San Diego was launched to assist, and continued to search through the night and into Monday morning. A Customs and Border Protection helicopter also helped with the search during the night hours.

Since it was reported the swimmer was wearing a wet suit the survivability 38 hours. At the beginning of the search, the current water temperature was 64, the seas were seven to 10 feet and the winds were 20-25 miles per hour. Monday morning the seas calmed to five to six feet.

If anyone knows of a friend or family member who was planning on taking a swim in the vicinity of the Oceanside Pier this evening and he has not returned, please call the U.S. Coast Guard at 619.278.7031.

Who: Officials from the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, Transportation Security Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and North Carolina Ports Authority, as well as U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre and Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo

What: A ribbon cutting ceremony for the new interagency operations center in Wilmington with interviews of agency officials and facility tours to follow, operations permitting

When: Tuesday, May 31 at 10:30 a.m.     

Where: 721 Medical Center Drive, Suite 100, Wilmington, NC 28401 (Street parking is available on Silver Stream Lane with additional parking available at 725 Wellington Avenue)

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Federal and state officials are scheduled to be part of a ceremony opening a new interagency operations center here Tuesday and will host tours of the facility afterward if operations permit.

This facility has been established in response to the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act, which required the Coast Guard to establish interagency operations centers in select ports.

“You cannot understate the importance of coordination and information sharing between response agencies,” said Capt. Anthony Popiel, Coast Guard Sector North Carolina commander. “The opening of the interagency operations center in Wilmington is an important step towards advancing both our response capabilities and our maritime domain awareness. We feel that we’ll be better postured to manage large scale incidents as well as day-to-day operations.”

The operations center in Wilmington will bring watchstanders from the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement all under one roof. The Coast Guard staff will include 40 personnel, including the sector commander and members of the command staff, who were transferred from Coast Guard Base Fort Macon in Atlantic Beach, N.C.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The ceremony and tours are not open to the public. The brief ceremony will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m. Please RSVP to Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class John Miller at 757-407-9541 or 757-398-6272.

SAN DIEGO – The Coast Guard is searching for a possible missing swimmer near the Oceanside, Calif., pier approximately 200 yards from shore, Sunday evening.

The Oceanside Harbor Police called the Joint Harbor Operations Center (JHOC) in San Diego just before 8:00 p.m., informing them they were searching for a man in a wet suit in the water and requested a rescue helicopter to help in the search.

U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego launched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to assist.

The current water temperature is 64 degrees, the seas are seven to 10 feet and the winds are 20-25 miles per hour.

If anyone knows of a friend or family member who was planning on taking a swim in the vicinity of the Oceanside Pier this evening and he has not returned, please call the U.S. Coast Guard at 619.278.7031.

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NEW YORK - Members of the United States Coast Guard Silent Drill Team, based in Alexandria, Va., perform for guests on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima, May 29, 2011. The event was part of New York Fleet Week, a week-long event in which mariners from around the world are celebrated in a series of maritime-oriented events. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas McKenzie

NEW YORK - Members of the United States Coast Guard Silent Drill Team, based in Alexandria, Va., perform for guests on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima, May 29, 2011. The event was part of New York Fleet Week, a week-long event in which mariners from around the world are celebrated in a series of maritime-oriented events. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas McKenzie

NEW YORK - Members of the United States Coast Guard Silent Drill Team, based in Alexandria, Va., perform for guests on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima, May 29, 2011. The event was part of New York Fleet Week, a week-long event in which mariners from around the world are celebrated in a series of maritime-oriented events. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas McKenzie

DETROIT – Coast Guard personnel are en route Sunday evening to the location of an 86-foot passenger vessel that suffered an engine shutdown while underway in the Detroit River with 143 passengers and six crewmembers aboard.

A marine investigator and a marine inspector from Coast Guard Sector Detroit are headed to the private dock in East China, Mich., where the passenger vessel Diamond Belle was able to moor after the engine casualty.

Sector Detroit was notified at 1:25 p.m. by Canadian coast guard personnel at Vessel Traffic Service Sarnia, Ontario.  Initial reports are that smoke was seen in the engine room, followed by a shutdown of the vessel’s main diesel engine. 

With no means of propulsion, the master was reportedly able to use the vessel’s momentum to guide it to a private dock, drop the vessel’s anchor and swing it in to moor there.

The Coast Guard is working closely with the vessel owner, Diamond Jack’s River Tours, to investigate the matter.

There are no reports of injuries.  The waterway remains open to marine traffic.

For more information, contact Lt. Justin Westmiller, Coast Guard Sector Detroit public affairs officer, at 313-701-6016.