U.S. COAST GUARD

The Coast Guard returned 309 Haitian migrants to their home country after intercepting their boat in waters off Florida's coast. The group was a mixture of men, women and children.

A boat carrying nearly 400 Haitian migrants was detained near the far-flung Cay Sal island. The migrants will be processed in the Bahamas and later repatriated.

The search ended for the missing Texas kayaker after officials found a body matching the description of the 49-year-old man.

Officials say the U.S. Coast Guard has detained a boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas in one of the biggest human smuggling incidents in the region

A Russian spy ship has been patrolling off the coast of Hawaii but so far has remained in international waters.

The Coast Guard has been tracking a Russian vessel "believed to be an intelligence gathering ship" off the coast of Hawaii in recent weeks, officials said Wednesday.

A search is underway for a 63-year-old fisherman who went overboard about four miles off the coast of Hawaii on Sunday morning after hooking a massive ahi.

The Coast Guard has returned another 177 Cuban migrants who were caught off Florida’s coast to the island.

Florida's governor has declared a state of emergency and is now bringing in the Florida National Guard to address the migrant crisis.

The Coast Guard found 350 pounds of illegally caught red snapper on a boat off the South Texas coast over the weekend.

The Coast Guard interdicted a lancha crew and seized 350 pounds of illegally caught fish Saturday in federal waters off southern Texas.

Cuban migrants are still arriving by boat in the Florida Keys even as the Biden administration promises a crackdown.

18 people, including women and children, were rescued from a makeshift boat by the Scarlet Lady cruise ship between Key West and Cuba.

A massive oil spill near Corpus Christi over Christmas weekend is larger than first reported, spilling roughly 14,000 gallons of oil.

Crew members aboard two cruise ships rescued around two dozen migrants in small boats, the latest episode of hundreds making or attempting landings in the Florida Keys over the past several days, authorities said. Crew members aboard Celebrity Beyond rescued 19 migrants from a crowded boat Monday, and crew members aboard Carnival Celebration spotted five people in distress on a small vessel about 29 miles (46 kilometers) northwest of Cuba. Once the migrants were rescued from their drifting boat, the Carnival Celebration crew members contacted the U.S. Coast Guard, which took them into custody offshore, said Matt Lupoli, a spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line.

Dry Tortugas National Park is closed while authorities process the migrants, amid a recent uptick in arrivals to the Florida Keys.

About 14,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into Corpus Christi Bay, compared to the 3,800 gallons originally estimated.

Response crews were assessing the North Beach area Friday following reports of oil spotted near the city’s popular North Beach.

Crews in a boat and a helicopter had found no sign of those who were on board by evening.

Cleanup of a nearly 4,000-gallon oil spill over the weekend may continue for several days, according to officials.

Up to 3,800 gallons of light crude oil flowed into the Corpus Christi Bay over the weekend due to a cracked pipeline.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued six non-citizens stranded near Port Mansfield. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders received a call relayed by Willacy County dispatch personnel at 6:42 a.m. Friday regarding six adults who are not U.S. citizens stating they were stranded on Padre Island north of the jetties near Port Mansfield, Coast Guard officials said in a news release. According to the release, the individuals indicated they were overcome by cold weather and in need of medical attention. Watchstanders directed the launch of MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crews from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi. After transporting the people to Charles R. Johnson Airport in Port Mansfield, the crew returned to retrieve the last three individuals from the Island.

Emergency personnel have evacuated nearly 900 passengers from a Staten Island Ferry vessel following a fire in the ship’s engine room.

The U.S. Coast Guard reported 34 Haitians abandoned by smugglers on a Puerto Rico cliff were rescued by crews on cutter Heriberto Hernandez, which is homeported in San Juan.

Two men who were missing for 10 days after their vessel, the Atrevida II, was pushed out to sea by a storm and lost power recalled their miraculous rescue.

The sailboat, without power or fuel, was found more than 200 miles off Delaware's coast.

Two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after friends and relatives had last heard from them, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday. Kevin Hyde, 65, and Joe Ditomasso, 76, were sailing from Cape May, New Jersey, to Marathon, Florida.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 34 Haitian migrants abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico

One of the obstacles is that potential recruits don't know what the Coast Guard does.

A man who went overboard on a Carnival cruise ship and said he spent nearly 20 hours in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico is speaking out about the experience.

"The survivor had about 30 seconds to a minute left before we would have lost him," a Coast Guard officer said.

The U.S. Coast Guard recently saved a Texas kite surfer stranded in the Gulf, clinging to wooden debris.

A 28-year-old man fell overboard from the Carnival Valor cruise ship hours before he was reported missing off of the southeast Louisiana coast. The passenger is in stable condition.

The group was found about 16 miles southwest of San Diego in a broken motorboat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Gladys Hughes, 99, a veteran of the Coast Guard women's reserve, shares a patriotic message about our military veterans — saying that service members are "responsible for the many freedoms we have."

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The U.S. Coast Guard interdicted 87 Mexican lanchas fishing illegally in U.S. waters in fiscal year 2022, seizing nearly eight tons of catch and detaining 373 fishermen off the Texas coast, officials say. Since the first recorded lancha interdiction in the 1980s, Coast Guard officials say there has been a significant increase in the detection of the illegal vessels, and 2022 showed an increase of 11.5 percent over the previous year. A lancha is a fishing boat used by Mexican fishermen that is approximately 20-30 feet long with a slender profile. Lt. Shane Gunderson assumed command of Coast Guard Station South Padre Island in June. “There is a degree of what we call recidivism, kind of recurring similar faces time and time again,” Gunderson said.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Good Samaritans rescued all 13 members of a fishing vessel that collided with a container ship off the shores of Chincoteague, Virginia.

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

Cuban state media say at least five people died when a boat off northern Cuba traveling north toward the United States sank after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship

The U.S. Coast Guard, a crew of scientists and others launched an air and sea mission to rescue 13 people, including a child, from a fishing vessel just moments before it sank in darkness in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia.

A Rhode Island fishing crew discovered a WWII explosiveon Oct. 25, 2022, which was ultimately detonated by U.S. Navy explosive experts the next day.

Authorities are searching for at least eight migrants believed to be missing in waters near the historic area of Puerto Rico’s capital

Crossing land isn't the only way migrants are finding their way into the U.S. Many Haitian and Cuban migrants make the difficult journey on the ocean.

The passengers told Coast Guard crew members that they had been at sea for a week and lacked food and water during the last two days.

Almost 100 people mostly from Haiti who were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the Florida coast had no food or water for two days.

Almost 100 people, mostly from Haiti, who were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the Florida coast had no food or water for two days, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter spotted the 96 Haitians, as well as a passenger each from Uganda and the Bahamas, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Boca Raton, Florida, last week. The passengers told Coast Guard crew members that they had been at sea for a week and lacked food and water during the last two days.

After Hurricane Ian whirled past the Florida Keys late last month, it left flooding and more than 100 displaced boats in its wake.

The Coast Guard continues to search for the missing 17-year-old swimmer last seen in the water at South Padre Island.

Coast Guard officials searching for missing swimmer off South Padre Island

Video: "Rescued just in the nick of time," stated the U.S. Coast Guard, adding that the "fishermen were fending off sharks when the rescue occurred."

Coast Guard saves three boaters fending off sharks in Gulf of Mexico after their boat sank. You can watch the full rescue here.

Two anglers whose boat sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico clung to an improvised float and fought off sharks while the third swam to search for help.

The anglers were adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for more than a day.

Coast Guard crews interdicted an illegal Mexican fishing crew off South Padre Island on Thursday, confiscating 220 pounds of illegally caught fish.

Federal authorities have issued a warning about a part of the tail in the type of seaplane that crashed in Washington state’s Puget Sound last month, killing 10 people.

The United States Coast Guard reported 55 Cuban migrants located off the coast of Florida over the past week were sent back to their home country on Wednesday.

Life-long Los Angeles Dodgers fan Travis Evans celebrated his 100th birthday at his first-ever Dodgers game on Tuesday night. The Dodgers played against the Colorado Rockies.

The U.S. Coast Guard released video footage of the rescue of two people and a dog from Florida's Sanibel Island following Hurricane Ian. The strong storm left many stranded in the area.

A federal agency has given a Texas oil company approval to repair a pipeline that ruptured a year ago and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude off the Southern California coast.

"We can only pray our crews find them so their families and loved ones can rest," the Coast Guard said.

The bodies of some of the 10 victims and most of a floatplane that crashed in Washington state’s Puget Sound earlier this month have been recovered.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China.

U.S. Coast Guard boats are a familiar presence during the U.N. General Assembly, guarding the aquatic border of the United Nations alongside New York City police boats.

Authorities are making contact with some of the most remote villages in the United States to determine the need for food and water and assess damage from a massive weekend storm that flooded communities dotting Alaska’s vast western coast.

A civil rights activist, a business owner, a lawyer, an engineer and the founder of a winery and his family were among the 10 people killed when a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound.

The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to search for nine people who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters northwest of Seattle.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for nine people who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters northwest of Seattle.

Coast Guard law enforcement crews caught 14 fishermen engaged in illegal fishing in federal waters off southern Texas on Tuesday, according to a press release.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five people off the coast of Texas on Monday after their boat started sinking.

The U.S. Coast Guard seized 40 sharks that were caught illegally off the South Texas coast earlier this week.

A U.S. defense contractor and his wife who federal authorities say lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children have been charged with identity theft and conspiracy.

A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through a pipeline during Louisiana barrier island restoration work in 2016.

Officials say two people were killed and 10 others had to be rescued after a nighttime boat collision near Key Biscayne, Florida.

President Joe Biden is hailing Adm. Linda Fagan as new Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the armed forces’ first female service chief.

A single vessel carrying 842 Haitians who apparently were trying to reach the United States has landed instead in central Cuba.

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The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard from a cruise ship as it approached Florida.

The U.S. Coast Guard has prepared a second attempt to free a stranded container ship Wednesday, more than two weeks after it ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay.

Ten Cuban migrants in a sinking vessel were rescued off the Florida coast.

Little is known about the 40 people believed to have been aboard a boat that capsized and was found this week near the Florida coast with just one survivor.

The U.S. government has launched a criminal investigation into whether a smuggling ring is behind a boat that capsized off Florida with 40 migrants onboard.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.

The ashes of Winter the dolphin have been returned to the sea, about two months after the beloved marine mammal of movie star fame died at a Florida aquarium.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew braved poor visibility and frigid rapids to reach a car partly submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, then lowered a rescue swimmer on a hoist who pulled out the driver trapped inside.

Federal investigators say a dredge operator’s inadequate communication, planning, and risk management likely led to a propane pipeline blast at a Texas port that killed five people last year.

A shipwreck 260 miles east of Boston has been identified as that of the storied Coast Guard ship U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear.

Family members of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard a scuba diving boat off the California coast two years ago have sued the U.S. Coast Guard for lax enforcement of safety regulations.

An 18-year-old swimmer who disappeared on Padre Island over the weekend was found dead by a spectator.

The U.S. Coast Guard has reopened traffic on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, after a three-day delay caused by a crack in an interstate bridge.

The body of a U.S. Air Force member who was pulled by a rip current on a Southeast Texas beach was found by his father after a nearly 48-hour search.

The Coast Guard has ended its search for survivors of the San Diego boat wreck, which killed three and injured dozens on a bright Sunday morning near tidepools of Cabrillo National Monument, a popular spot for tourists and hikers.

A remotely piloted boat packed with explosives has targeted the Saudi port of Yanbu in the Red Sea.

Divers searching the site of a capsized lift boat off Louisiana's coast have recovered two more unresponsive crewmembers.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has covered an area larger than the state of Rhode Island in its search for a dozen people missing off the Louisiana coast after an offshore oilfield vessel capsized in a storm.

They waved flags to catch the attention of a Coast Guard helicopter crew that flew over the island while on a routine mission Monday. A Coast Guard helicopter earlier this week spotted the two men and one woman and hoisted them in baskets from a rocky cliff in Anguilla Cay, a Bahamian islet close to Cuba. The Associated Press requested interviews with the survivors, but Coast Guard and immigration officials have not released their identities and did not grant access for interviews. The U.S. Coast Guard did not respond to requests clarifying what considerations were made before the group was flown into the United States. However, the rocky, uninhabited island is routinely monitored by the Coast Guard for strandings of migrants hoping to reach U.S. soil.

SABINE PASS, Texas – The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday continued to search for a tanker ship crew member who fell overboard along the Southeast Texas coast. The 27-year-old crew member fell into the water from the tanker ship Sagami about 29 miles offshore of Sabine Pass, Texas, on Wednesday evening. He was last seen wearing an orange life jacket and coveralls with reflective tape. A 45-foot Coast Guard rescue boat and a helicopter were part of the search effort by authorities.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Efforts to stem a plume spewing Tuesday from an offshore natural gas well platform in Texas have been hampered by rough waters, but officials say the environmental impact has been minimal. “It’s not a big concern because it’s very light and usually natural gas just evaporates upon impact, so we’re not too concerned,” Reynolds said. In this image released by the U.S. Coast Guard, natural gas is release from an oil platform approximately three miles offshore of Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Witt O’Brien’s spokesman Sean Fitzgerald said they are working closely with the Coast Guard. He said they don’t yet know what caused the well to begin emitting the plume of natural gas, water and condensate.

A shark, dozens of U.S. Coast Guard members and an inflatable unicorn are all safe after what could have been a disastrous encounter in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. About 30-40 crew members on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball were swimming in the ocean after a long day when, what appears to be a 6 to 8-foot longfin mako or pelagic thresher shark was spotted swimming towards the crew, according to Military.com. Yes, shark watch is a real thing. Coast Guard and Navy vessels have personnel on designated shark and polar bear watches, Military.com reported. The shark was roughly 30-feet away when Cintron opened fire, according to a Facebook post from U.S. Coast Guard officials.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas The search for two crew members of a dredging boat who went missing following an explosion last week in the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas has been ended, the U.S. Coast Guard announced. Our Coast Guard crews worked intently alongside state and local partners to locate the two crew members who remained missing, but unfortunately, we were unable to locate them, said Capt. Edward Gaynor, commander, Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi. The decision to suspend a search is never easy and a lot of factors are considered before suspending a search. Port of Corpus Christi officials said it was a propane pipeline.