Coast Guard locates 3 missing people in Trinity Bay
Three people rescued by the Coast Guard stand with two of their rescuers after being located and recovered from their aground boat in Trinity Bay Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. The three were reported...
View ArticleUPDATE: Coast Guard assisting in search for missing boater
CAPE ROMAIN, S.C. — A missing boater has been located Wednesday in the vicinity of Raccoon Key, South Carolina. The man was found by a Department of Natural Resources officer searching on foot on the...
View ArticleUPDATE: U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Air Force conclude search for man...
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. — U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Air Force and local crews ended their search for a man missing in Lake Superior near Tofte, Minnesota, after he was found unresponsive late...
View ArticleCoast Guard responds to Ohio River barge collision
JOPPA, Ill. — The Coast Guard is responding to a barge collision on the Ohio River near Joppa, Illinois, Wednesday. Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley watchstanders were notified a collision took place...
View ArticleCGC Alex Haley crew shares holiday cheer with Akutan, Alaska
Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley and Santa Claus join children from Akutan, Alaska, during a visit to the village Dec. 23, 2014. The crew of the CGC Alex Haley delivered Santa along...
View ArticleCoast Guard, partner agencies search for missing man in Elizabeth River
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard and partner agencies are searching Wednesday for a missing man in the Elizabeth River in the vicinity of High Street Landing in Portsmouth. Portsmouth 911 dispatch...
View ArticleCoast Guard Cutter Dependable to return to Cape May, NJ, following 60-day...
Media Note: If you’d like to attend the return to homeport, please contact Public Affairs Detachment Atlantic City at 757-434-6043. CAPE MAY, N.J. -- The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dependable is...
View ArticleCoast Guard to implement safety zones in Biscayne Bay for New Year's fireworks
MIAMI — The Coast Guard will establish a temporary safety zone and a regulated navigation area from 11 p.m. Dec. 31 to 1 a.m. Jan. 1 in portions of Biscayne Bay to help ensure the safety of South...
View ArticleFEATURE STORY: Giving back for bright futures
Petty Officer 1st Class Danielle Wnek, a crewmember at Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, New Jersey, attended 13 schools before graduating high school in 2000. Wnek was born in Cleveland, where...
View ArticleCoast Guard Recruits get home away from home for Christmas
CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard and American Red Cross will placed nearly 300 Coast Guard recruits with several dozen South Jersey families for Christmas as part of Operation Fireside, Thursday....
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues man stranded for five days in Bahamas
MIAMI - A man who was stranded on an island in the Bahamas for five days is safe after the Coast Guard rescued him Thursday afternoon.Rescued was Andrew Black, Bahamian national, 55-years old.While on...
View ArticleUpdate: *Video included* Coast Guard rescues person from sailing vessel 75...
To view video, please click on the image SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard rescued a person aboard a sailing vessel taking on water approximately 75 miles southwest of Monterey, Thursday morning. At...
View ArticleUPDATE: Coast Guard helps boaters in distress off South Carolina coast
Editor's note: for video, click the link above. CHARLESTON, SC — The Coast Guard responded to a vessel taking on water Saturday, 48 miles southeast of Folly Beach, South Carolina. No injuries were...
View ArticleCoast Guard helps boaters in distress off South Carolina coast
CHARLESTON, SC — The Coast Guard responded to a vessel taking on water Saturday, 48 miles southeast of Folly Beach, South Carolina. No injuries were reported, and the vessel did not sink....
View ArticleCoast Guard Station Sandy Hook MEDEVACS passenger from fishing vessel near...
NEW YORK - Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook medically evacuated a 51-year-old man from a vessel approximately eight-miles offshore east of Sandy Hook, N.Y., this morning. Watchstanders at Sector New...
View ArticleTexas Parks & Wildlife, Coast Guard rescue 3 boaters
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Three people in need of medical attention were rescued from their grounded boat by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Coast Guard crews early Sunday morning. At...
View ArticleVideo Release: Coast Guard rescues two from grounded skiff near Sitka, Alaska
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoists a couple after their 17-foot skiff grounded near Sitka, Alaska, Dec. 27, 2014. The passengers were taken to emergency medical personnel in Sitka....
View ArticleCoast Guard conducts search for man overboard in Pacific
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard is searching for the master of a freight ship reported overboard approximately 60 miles east of Wake Island Sunday. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Joint Rescue...
View ArticleCoast Guard Cutter Tahoma returns to homeport
BOSTON — Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma returned Sunday to their homeport of Kittery, Maine after a 55-day patrol conducting operations and training in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. The crew carried...
View ArticleSouth Jersey unit's rescue of 800-pound turtle nominated for Coast Guard's...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Rescue footage of the Coast Guard saving an 800-pound leatherback turtle off Cape May is in the running Monday for the Coast Guard's Video of the Year contest, which ends Jan. 4....
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