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Photo Release: Coast Guard conducts helicopter demonstration for Alameda...
Students cheer in excitement as Petty Officer 2nd Class Ian Jobs, a Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco rescue swimmer, is lowered into the water off Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The...
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FEATURE RELEASE: Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg crews give a helping hand
Story and photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael De Nyse, PADET D7 Central ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Coast Guard crewmembers from several units at Sector St. Petersburg and Aids to Navigation Team...
View ArticleMultiple federal agencies conduct operation in Savannah, Brunswick ports
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, and Transportation Security Administration personnel are coordinating a multi-agency strike force operation at the Georgia ports of Savannah...
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National Strike Force continues operations at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Mike Jolly, a response officer with the Pacific Strike Team, talks about the National Strike Force dewatering operations at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in New York,...
View ArticleCoast Guard, NOAA remind mariners to slow down for right whales
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard advises large vessel operators that Operation Right Speed is in effect during the annual right whale migration in the mid-Atlantic waters from Nov. 1 to April 30....
View ArticleCleanup continues of orphaned containers
NEW ORLEANS — The cleanup and processing efforts of orphaned containers continues as the area recovers from Hurricane Isaac. An incident management team, consisting of the Coast Guard, Federal...
View ArticleHealy to return home after 84-day Arctic deployment
SEATTLE – The nation’s only operational polar ice breaker, Coast Guard Cutter Healy is scheduled to arrive U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle, Pier 36, Nov. 10, 2012 at 10 a.m., after an 84-day deployment...
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Coast Guard members walk the docks of Northern California to save lives
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Coast Guard members up and down the California coast are conducting free, dock-side inspections for fishermen as part of Operation Safe Crab, an initiative to save lives and prevent...
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Hurricane Sandy response teams continue to monitor pollution
An assessment team formed by the Hurricane Sandy Pollution Response Unified Command discusses plans to mitigate pollution after assessing damage at the Atlantic Highlands Municipal Harbor, N.J., Nov....
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Coast Guard, partners search for possible missing diver
Editor's note: For a high resolution image, click the thumbnail above. HONOLULU – The Coast Guard, federal and local first responders are searching for a possible diver in distress near He'eia Keea...
View ArticleCrews investigating reports of oiled wildlife on St. Lawrence Island
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the mayors of Gambell and Savoonga established a unified command to investigate reports of oiled wildlife...
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PHOTO: Coast Guard begins nation's largest buoy retrieval operation
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Buckthorn, a 100-foot inland buoy tender homeported in Sault Ste Marie, Minn., lowers a lighted ice buoy into the St. Mary's River, Nov. 8, 2012. The Buckthorn's...
View ArticleCoast Guard begins mandatory dockside examinations of commercial fishing vessels
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard is scheduled to conduct Operation Get Decal, performing mandatory dockside examinations of Dungeness crab vessels at ports throughout Washington and Oregon, Monday through...
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PHOTO RELEASE: Middle school holds Veteran's Day ceremony, honors Coast Guard...
TAMPA, Fla. — Faculty and students from Nancy Bartels Middle School, honored crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Joshua Appleby during their Veteran's Day ceremony, Friday. The ceremony was called...
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Hurricane Sandy Response Teams to distribute pollution notices.
NEW YORK - Coast Guard pollution response teams will begin leaving notices to owners of vehicles, vessels or tanks that are potential pollution threats to the marine environment in New York and New...
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Feature Release: Behind the blue curtain
Seaman Aly Nagel, a member of deck department aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Alert, a 210-foot Medium Endurance Cutter homeported in Astoria, Ore., studies helm and lookout watchstander materials on...
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PHOTOs: DHS agency reps come together at Great Lakes Coordinating Council...
Rear Adm. Michael N. Parks, commander of the 9th Coast Guard District, speaks during a Great Lakes Coordinating Council meeting held at the 9th Coast Guard District offices in Cleveland, Nov. 8, 2012....
View ArticleCoast Guard, good Samaritan rescue 4 fishermen near Tarpon Springs, Fla
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — Four fishermen were rescued by the Coast Guard and a good Samaritan after their 34-foot fishing boat sank 14 miles west of Tarpon Springs, Friday. Pasco County 911 dispatch...
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FEATURE STORY: Who speaks for the seas?
Who speaks for the seas? by Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Pamela J. Boehland The large, green generators in the engine room of a 292-foot ship moored to a pier in San Francisco grind to life,...
View ArticleCoast Guard helps America remember ‘service and sacrifice’
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Coast Guard recruits and Coast Guardsmen will participate in several Veterans’ Day events to honor America’s past and present service members Sunday. More than 80 Training Center Cape...
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