Coast Guard urges people to stay off the water; changes port condition as...
HOUSTON — Coast Guard units along the Texas coast began preparations to ensure the safety of their own crews and commercial facilities and vessels and they urge the public to do the same Monday as the...
View ArticleCoast Guard scheduled to commission Puerto Rico's first fast response cutter...
Editor's note: Media interested in attending the commissioning ceremony need to RSVP by June 18, 2015, with Chief Crystal Kneen at 727-535-1437, Ext 2143. Media must arrive no later than 9:30 a.m. and...
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UPDATE: Coast Guard responds after barges hit dam protection wall, break free...
The towing vessel Joyce Hale recovers one of two barges that drifted into piers of the Starved Rock Dam in Utica, Ill., June 15, 2015. The vessel was pushing eight barges of dry cargo on the...
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Imagery Update: Coast Guard, partner agencies detain, release violators of...
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**Photos and Video**Coast Guard Station Montauk rescues turtle caught in line...
NEW YORK – Coast Guard Station Montauk crewmembers assisted in disentangling a leatherback turtle in Montauk, New York, Monday. At 1:30 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center was...
View ArticleCoast Guard scheduled to participate in multi-agency training in Port Miami
MIAMI — The Coast Guard is scheduled to facilitate a one-day, multi-agency homeland-security-related incident exercise in Port Miami, Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The homeland security exercise is...
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Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returned to Boston from a 55-day North Atlantic...
BOSTON – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returned to Boston after a 55-day patrol in the North Atlantic, Tuesday. While conducting a law enforcement inspection aboard the commercial fishing...
View ArticleCoast Guard closes waterways from Matagorda Bay to Galveston Bay as Tropical...
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard continues to broadcast notification of a Federal Safety Zone in place for small crafts Tuesday on the waterways from Matagorda Bay to Galveston Bay. This safety zone was...
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**Photos Available**54 migrants rescued at sea repatriated to Haiti
A crewmember aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant lowers a child to a boatcrew during a repatriation off the coast of Haiti, June 16, 2015. Fifty-four Haitian migrants were interdicted south of...
View Article*** MEDIA ADVISORY *** New Captain for Coast Guard Sector Northern New England
PORTLAND, Maine — Coast Guard Sector Northern New England is scheduled to hold a change of command ceremony Thursday in Portland. WHO: Capt. Michael A. Baroody will be relieving Capt. Brian S. Gilda...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 2 men, dogs near Anchorage, Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew, forward deployed to Cordova, rescued two men and two dogs after their boat became disabled in Little Susitna River, near...
View ArticleU.S. Coast Guard commandant releases cyber strategy
WASHINGTON — The commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, released the service's cyber strategy Tuesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to ensure the prosperity and...
View ArticleCoast Guard hoists 3 after fire engulfs boat
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Three people were rescued in a cooperative effort between a good Samaritan fishing boat and the U.S. Coast Guard, Tuesday, approximately 118 miles east of Brunswick. Watchstanders at...
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Coast Guard rescue swimmers train underwater
As part of their routinely intense training regiment, Coast Guard aviation survival technicians practice in and under the water June 16, 2015, at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay....
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Photo Release: Coast Guard, Dare County personnel assist injured woman near...
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Coast Guard Oregon Inlet crew members and Dare County EMTs came to the aid of an injured woman Tuesday after the boat she was on ran aground southeast of Wanchese.Personnel at Coast...
View ArticleSmithfield man sentenced for false distress, ordered to pay $117k
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Smithfield man was sentenced Monday in U.S. Federal Court in Newport News for falsifying statements to law enforcement officers in 2014, which launched a search and rescue...
View ArticleCoast Guard opens waterways from Matagorda Bay to Galveston Bay
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard has lifted the Federal Safety Zone in place for small crafts, and has opened the waterways from Matagorda Bay to Galveston Bay, at 6 a.m. Wednesday. The Coast Guard Captain...
View ArticleMedia Availability: Coast Guard icebreaker crew to discuss Arctic science...
WHO: Coast Guard crewmembers and scientists assigned to Coast Guard Cutter Healy WHAT: Coast Guard crewmembers and scientists to provide details about their scientific research mission and their...
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UPDATE: ***IMAGERY AVAILABLE*** Coast Guard hoists 3 after fire engulfs boat
(Click the left image for a higher resolution version of the image. Click the right image for video of the rescue.) BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Three people were rescued in a cooperative effort between a good...
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Photo Release: Coast Guard, Brunswick County paramedic assist ailing man off...
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Coast Guard Oak Island crew members and a Brunswick County paramedic came to the aid of an ailing man Wednesday aboard a charter fishing vessel approximately 15 miles southeast of...
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