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The U.S. Coast Guard transported a 68-year-old woman from a cruise ship off Maui this morning due to a head injury. The U.S. Coast Guard transported a 68-year-old woman from a cruise ship off Maui this morning due to a head injury.
'Drug smugglers' desperately dump 1,800 lbs of cocaine worth A 16.5m off the side of a speedboat during a high-speed chase with the US Coast Guard A Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton apprehended the smugglers as part of an operation that seized seven tons of cocaine This is the shocking moment a suspected drug smuggler dumped millions of pounds worth of cocaine in the sea during a US Coast Guard chase. A person was caught on camera dumping 1,800lbs of cocaine into the waters, with an approximate street value of A 16.5 million.
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flies above the surfing action at the U.S. Open of Surfing on Sunday, July 30, 2017 in Huntington Beach. The U.S. Coast Guard has spent the last month looking for the aquatic version of the boy who cried wolf.
A U.S. Coast Guard release says four people were traveling in the Piper PA-34 twin-engine plane from the Louisiana towns of Slidell to Patterson on Tuesday when the plane began to run low on fuel. Authorities say the pilot shut the engines down to conserve fuel and made an emergency landing in the Atchafalaya River, about 17 miles south of Patterson.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Nearly two tons of cocaine that was seized by the Coast Guard during operations in the Caribbean sea is being offloaded in St. Petersburg Friday.
A man from the Bahamas who had been missing for more than 15 days was rescued Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 about 10 miles east of West Palm Beach, the Coast Guard said. A man from the Bahamas who had been missing for more than 15 days was rescued Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 about 10 miles east of West Palm Beach, the Coast Guard said.
Serious questions have been raised regarding the testing of ballast water management systems . In order for a BWMS manufacturer to sell its equipment for use on commercial vessels operating in U.S. waters, the equipment must be tested in accordance with U.S. Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency requirements and the equipment must then obtain a type approval certificate from the Coast Guard.
Adm. Paul Zukunft , a 1977 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy who is now the Coast Guard commandant, assumed command of the 88,000-strong force on May 30, 2014, overseeing a military branch that patrols from Guam in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic and from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the equator. Business Insider sat down with Zukunft at the Coast Guard's Washington, DC, headquarters at the end of December to discuss his time as commandant, how his approach to leading the service changed during his tenure, and how the force had adapted to new threats.
The U.S. Coast Guard will offload more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $721 million Thursday at 9:30 a.m., which was seized in 23 separate interdictions in the eastern Pacific Ocean by U.S. and Canadian forces operating in international waters off the coast of Central and South America. Senior U.S. and Canadian officials will be at the offload to discuss new tactics used by transnational organized crime groups and to highlight international cooperation in combating the threat posed by these dangerous groups.
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning people in southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio to avoid ice-covered waters as mild weather makes them increasingly unstable. Personnel with the Guard's Detroit Sector have rescued 18 people who have fallen through ice in the past week.
The search for survivors of the deadly mudslides in parts of California's scenic Santa Barbara County continued Sunday even as hopes dwindled to find anyone else alive, officials said. "We're still in rescue mode and we still hope to find someone alive, although the chances of that are becoming slim," said Justin Cooper, a spokesperson for the multi-agency response team.
One woman is dead and 50 people were rescued near Port Richey, Florida when a casino boat caught fire. Many passengers jumped to the water below to save their own lives.
In this Jan. 9, 2018 image from video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a woman and an infant are hoisted aboard a Coast Guard helicopter as they are rescued from a flood-damaged home in Montecito, Calif. Flash floods on Tuesday swept immense amounts of mud, water and debris down from foothills that were stripped of brush by a recent wildfire.
The number of missing after a California mudslide has fluctuated wildly, due to shifting definitions, the inherent uncertainty that follows a natural disaster, and just plain human error. On Thursday, the number provided by authorities went from 48, down to eight, then back up to 43. Officials say a clerical mistake led to the figure of eight being released.
In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to meet with members of the U.S. Coast Guard, who he invited to play golf, at Trump International Golf Club, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Trump will be the patient, not the commander in chief offering comfort, when he visits the Walter Reed military hospital.
US Coast Guard video shows more helicopter rescues from the southern California mudslides. A man, a girl and a dog were plucked from the roof of their home on Tuesday.
One by one, a family of five trapped by rivers of mud in Southern California climbed to the roof of their home as rescuers swooped in to help them. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego was deployed Tuesday to Carpinteria after first responders in Santa Barbara County couldn't get through the muddy floodwaters surrounding the house.
U.S. Coast Guard planes were continuing to fly over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning in search of a missing Oklahoma City pilot, the Coast Guard reports. Kinsinger piloted a small airplane that departed Wednesday evening from Wiley Post Airport.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents had a busy holiday season patrolling the Caribbean, intercepting more than 4,700 pounds of cocaine they estimate to have a wholesale value of almost $62 million. The Customs crews are based both in Miami and the Caribbean and used "sophisticated maritime surveillance equipment to detect multiple drug-smuggling vessels as part of multi-agency operations around the holidays," the agency said in a statement.
North American Aerospace Defense Command had earlier launched fighter aircraft based in Texas and Louisiana to make visual contact with the single-engine plane that had failed to land in Texas after having taken off from Oklahoma City earlier in the day. "A Cirrus S22T left Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City this afternoon and the pilot filed a flight plan to Georgetown, Texas" the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.