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The Coast Guard is searching in the Gulf of Mexico for a crew member who went missing from a Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas cruise ship around 1:30 a.m. Monday. USCG released a statement Monday after the Eighth District command center in New Orleans received a report that the unidentified man, 39, was seen "approximately 170 miles southeast" of Galveston, Texas.
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk returned to Key West on Saturday following a three-month counter-drug patrol in the Pacific Ocean. The Coast Guard says the Mohawk's crew interdicted 14 vessels that were smuggling illegal narcotics, detained 41 suspected smugglers and seized approximately 12,000 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of over $390 million.
Rescued were a 19-year-old male from Longwood, who piloted the plane, and an 18-year-old female from Cape Coral. Watch standers at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received notification at 8:48 p.m. from Levy County dispatch stating a single-engine plane carrying two people had crashed near the end of County Road 40 Boat Ramp.
Authorities have closed the beach of a Lake Michigan state park after a grounded, stranded pleasure boat broke apart just offshore. Ludington State Park officials announced late Friday the western Michigan beach has been closed as debris washes shore.
US military forces patrolling the country's southern approaches are under-resourced and overwhelmed by the flow of drugs and contraband coming north, military and Coast Guard leaders said in recent weeks. Both US Southern Command, which oversees military operations beyond Mexico's southern border, and the US Coast Guard, have been strained by the scope of their duties and limitations on their budgets.
The U.S. Coast Guard says crews are searching for a Georgia man who went overboard from a Carnival cruise ship near the Berry Islands in the Bahamas. A Coast Guard news release says 32-year-old Reco Scott of Decatur went overboard from the ninth deck of the Carnival Liberty cruise ship around 5 a.m. on Friday.
The U.S. Coast Guard says crews are searching for a Florida man who fell off a Carnival cruise ship near Cuba. A Coast Guard news release says 23-year-old Brandon Paul went overboard from the eighth deck of the Carnival Victory at about 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Crews with the United States Coast Guard and Cuban Search and Rescue authorities are searching for a 23-year-old Floral City, Florida man who fell off of the Carnival Victory cruise ship 33 miles northwest of Pinar Del Rio, Cuba. Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew launched to search for Paul.
The Coast Guard rescued a woman who had been hurt while on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said Monday. The Coast Guard cutter Steelhead received a distress call about 1 p.m. Monday from a charter boat located about 35 miles off Port Aransas.
Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter called a proposal from President Donald Trump's administration to slash the US Coast Guard's budget by $1.3 billion "nonsensical" Wednesday. Speaking on CNN's "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan, the California congressman argued the proposed cuts -- part of the administration's tentative budget for fiscal year 2018 -- would cripple the agency's "shoestring budget."
The 306-foot brick and concrete stack and 170-foot boiler house at FirstEnergy's Lake Shore plant were demolished early this morning using more than 200 pounds of explosives, taking approximately 10 seconds to fall and permanently altering the Cleveland skyline. Charges were detonated at approximately 1:00 a.m., representing a major milestone in a multi-year process to close the 106-year old plant.
File photo: Workers clean the interior of a cargo hold aboard the LST-1166. What happens when a solution to one or many obstacles ends up becoming an even larger problem? For seamen, one such problem is asbestos.
A fire that broke out at a U.S. Coast Guard housing facility along the southern shore of Oahu caused an estimated $270,000 in damage. Hawaii News Now reports that Honolulu fire officials say a circuit breaker that malfunctioned was the cause of the Saturday morning blaze in Aina Haina.
A 75-year-old woman experiencing diabetic shock was airlifted by the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday morning from a cruise ship located approximately 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The Coast Guard said its 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, was notified at about 9:55 a.m. that a passenger in distress was on board the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Anthem of the Seas.
The search has been called off for the six veteran fishermen aboard a crabbing boat missing in the icy, turbulent Bering Sea. The fishing vessel Destination went missing early Saturday after an emergency signal from a radio beacon registered to the ship.
Six veteran fishermen aboard a crabbing boat have gone missing in the icy, turbulent Bering Sea, and their employers are clinging to hope that they might somehow be found safe. The fishing vessel Destination went missing early Saturday after an emergency signal from a radio beacon registered to the ship.
The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska is searching for a fishing boat with six people that has been missing in the Bering Sea for more than a day. Ships and aircraft have looked through the night for the 98-foot-long F/V Destination, according to a news release from the agency on Sunday afternoon.
In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, photo, a catch of fish is unloaded from a commercial fishing boat at Pier 38 in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found.