OK Just to clarify, after reading the MSNBC.com story of Tuesday's events I fired off an email to WBAL TV who was the originator of the story according to MSNBC. But of course, since WBAL does very little real investigation on their own, I was informed that the story came from a
press release generated by the US Coast Guard Public Affairs Office.
THis is to be expectred since the USCG, now a part of the Department Of Homeland Security has an obvious image problem.