PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard encourages boaters to familiarize themselves with and follow safety recommendations and waterway regulations during Operation Sail 2012. “Boaters are encouraged to ...

BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard responded to a call to help a disabled vessel in the Patapsco River late Thursday. Coast Guard Sector Baltimore watchstanders received a call from a 911 dispatch at 10:30 p ...

SEATTLE – Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 41, which provides volunteer civilian support to the Coast Guard in the Port Ludlow area, has established a new maritime Emergency Communications Center (ECC) ...

MIAMI – The crew of the 210-foot, Miami-based Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returned home Saturday at 9 a.m. concluding a 50-day deployment in the northern Caribbean. The crew of the cutter Valiant ...

HONOLULU — The Coast Guard and County of Kauai are scheduled to conduct a search and rescue exercise (SAREX) off the southern coast of the island, Thursday. A SAREX is an exercise designed to evaluate ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – After a two-day effort, the Coast Guard has suspended its active search today at 9 p.m. for Michael Moxley, the 19-year-old man who went missing south of the Packery Channel ...

CLEVELAND – Having completed notifications of the next of kin, as well as debriefing immediate family members regarding the details of the search, the Coast Guard is officially releasing the names of ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard rescued four people from a capsized vessel Wednesday near the Destin Bridge in Destin, Florida. Coast Guard Sector Mobile watchstanders received a call at 8:40 p.m. from ...

NEW ORLEANS — A 57-year-old fisherman was medevaced from the 40-foot fishing vessel Reel Fish Bonz 46 miles south of Pensacola, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday. Timothy Lambert was reportedly ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. – A Coast Guard rescue boat crew saved a family of four aboard a sinking boat 8 miles off Bogue Inlet Sunday. The father called Seatow in Beaufort on his VHF radio and told them his ...

KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak located two overdue hunters on Kalgin Island near Kenai Thursday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Anchorage ...

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is actively searching for an unconfirmed person in the water near the Okaloosa County Pier in Destin, Florida, Thursday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile, ...