A fishing vessel rescued 10 people after a volcano erupted, sending rocks and ash down on a cattle ranch on a remote island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
A college student who survived a boat sinking with four others said Monday that a safety officer who died on their boat was a hero for staying behind and pushing him out.
The last of six Texas A&M University mariners who went missing in the Gulf of Mexico was found dead Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard said. The other five crewmates were rescued earlier in the day.
The U.S. Coast Guard Sunday continues its search for a missing sailor whose five Texas A&M University crew mates were hoisted out of the Gulf of Mexico earlier in the day after their sailboat capsized.
U.S. and Bahamian rescue workers found the bodies of 20 people floating in open waters Sunday near the Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Monday.
The U.S. Coast Guard continued to search Monday night for a crew member missing after his fishing vessel sank Sunday in the frigid waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing four others.
Sophisticated submarine-like boats are the latest tool drug runners are using to bring cocaine north from Colombia, U.S. officials say.
Greek authorities rescued 278 passengers and 35 crew members Thursday after a cruise ship ran aground near the island of Poros, said Greece's Ministry of Merchant Marine.
Dozens of people were injured -- many of them critically -- in an explosion at a sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia, Thursday evening, law enforcement and medical officials said.
Thousands of people used shovels and buckets in a massive operation Sunday to clean up the South Korea's largest oil spill, which blackened beaches along the country's western coast.
A fishing vessel rescued 10 people after a volcano erupted, sending rocks and ash down on a cattle ranch on a remote island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
A college student who survived a boat sinking with four others said Monday that a safety officer who died on their boat was a hero for staying behind and pushing him out.
The last of six Texas A&M University mariners who went missing in the Gulf of Mexico was found dead Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard said. The other five crewmates were rescued earlier in the day.
The U.S. Coast Guard Sunday continues its search for a missing sailor whose five Texas A&M University crew mates were hoisted out of the Gulf of Mexico earlier in the day after their sailboat capsized.
U.S. and Bahamian rescue workers found the bodies of 20 people floating in open waters Sunday near the Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Monday.
The U.S. Coast Guard continued to search Monday night for a crew member missing after his fishing vessel sank Sunday in the frigid waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing four others.
Sophisticated submarine-like boats are the latest tool drug runners are using to bring cocaine north from Colombia, U.S. officials say.
Greek authorities rescued 278 passengers and 35 crew members Thursday after a cruise ship ran aground near the island of Poros, said Greece's Ministry of Merchant Marine.
Dozens of people were injured -- many of them critically -- in an explosion at a sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia, Thursday evening, law enforcement and medical officials said.
Thousands of people used shovels and buckets in a massive operation Sunday to clean up the South Korea's largest oil spill, which blackened beaches along the country's western coast.
The crew of the ship that ran into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the water last week has retained lawyers and is not complying with requests for interviews from the National Transportation Safety Board, a board member said Wednesday.
"Human error factors" probably were involved in a ship crash and oil spill that killed nearly 400 birds in San Francisco Bay and prompted a federal criminal probe, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday.
Federal investigators were considering Monday whether to file criminal charges in San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades
Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into a cargo ship collision and oil spill, the Coast Guard said, which killed hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay.
A National Transportation Safety Board team was on its way to California Saturday to probe why a container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earlier this week, spilling 58,000 gallons of oil into the water.
An oil spill fouled miles of coastline Thursday, sending environmentalists scrambling to save tarred marine life
Sixty-six passengers and crew were transferred to shore on Coast Guard vessels after their cruise ship was run aground off Virginia on Thursday, U.S. Coast Guard officials and the cruise ship company told CNN.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed murder charges against two men suspected in the deaths of a charter boat crew, authorities said.
The head of the U.S. Coast Guard and a congressman planned to travel to the Coast Guard Academy on Thursday to speak to cadets about the discovery this summer of two small hangman's nooses on Coast Guard properties.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search at dusk Thursday for four crew members of the fishing vessel "Joe Cool."
One of two men who chartered a pleasure boat in the Florida Straits said its four missing crew members were captured and killed by hijackers, according to an affidavit released Wednesday in federal court.
The FBI is searching for the four-person crew of a Miami Beach charter boat as part of an investigation into what a bureau spokeswoman called "a possible crime on the seas."
The company that runs the first passenger-vehicle ferry service between the Hawaiian Islands suspended operations indefinitely Tuesday after two days of emotional protests and legal setbacks.
A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, U.S. officials said.
When the Coast Guard decided to replace its fleet of 25-year-old response boats, Brian Thomas, vice president of Kvichak Marine Industries, assumed his company would never get the $600 million mult...
All of the passengers aboard a U.S. cruise ship were evacuated early Monday morning after it ran aground off the southeastern coast of Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
As many as 8,000 gallons of a toxic solvent spilled into the Ohio River Wednesday after a barge hit an underwater dam, Coast Guard and Illinois state officials told CNN.
The brave women and men who serve as United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers perform courageous, lifesaving feats every day. Clocking in at a "Waterworld"-ly 139 minutes, "The Guardian" catalogs every one of them.
The crew of an Asian ship listing in the North Pacific are preparing to abandon it after the U.S. Coast Guard said it was too dangerous to stay on board.
A woman died after the Coast Guard chased and captured a speedboat carrying 31 Cuban migrants and three suspected immigrant smugglers about 4 miles off the coast of Boca Chica, Florida, on Saturday, the Coast Guard said.
The U.S. Coast Guard sometimes alerts large commercial ships they will be searched as they approach port so as not to burden shipping companies financially, the Coast Guard acknowledged to CNN on Saturday.
Authorities abandoned an air and sea search Wednesday for a 21-year-old man presumed to have fallen Monday from an ocean liner during a Caribbean cruise.
U.S. and Bahamian authorities conducted an air and sea search Tuesday for a 21-year-old man presumed to have fallen Monday from an ocean liner during a Caribbean cruise.
One survivor described "a tidal wave coming over the trees." Another said it sounded like a jetliner was crashing in the lush, green valley. A third compared it with Niagara Falls.
A review of a United Arab Emirates-owned company's plan to take over a portion of operations at key U.S. ports never looked into whether the company had ties to al Qaeda or other terrorists, a key Republican lawmaker told CNN on Wednesday.
A top executive of the Dubai-based company that hopes to take over about a dozen terminals in six U.S. ports defended the deal before a Senate committee Tuesday.
The Coast Guard warned that "intelligence gaps" prevented a broad assessment of any security risks posed by the takeover of some U.S. shipping terminals by a United Arab Emirates company, a Senate hearing revealed Monday.
A body found floating off the southeast coast of Florida has been identified as the 20th victim of Monday's seaplane crash off Miami Beach, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
A vintage seaplane with 20 people on board broke into at least two pieces and crashed Monday into the ocean off Miami, killing at least 19 people aboard, authorities said.
The Coast Guard rescued a Marine pilot Tuesday after his aircraft plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida.
Police, firefighters, and Coast Guard crews may be the first to come to mind when naming the lifesavers during disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
The Coast Guard said Thursday evening that it had suspended the search for two children allegedly tossed by their mother off a San Francisco pier.
Government response to Hurricane Katrina was sharply criticized at all levels. CNN.com asked readers whether government -- at any level -- should be restructured to respond better to the next disaster. Here is a sampling of those responses, some of which have been edited:
A 6-year-old Cuban boy drowned Thursday after a smuggler's boat carrying him and 30 other people capsized as a U.S. Coast Guard vessel attempted to intercept it south of Florida, the Coast Guard said.
Time is running out for thousands of people awaiting rescue six days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, rescuers say.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Gulf Coast states are without homes or power in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and aid agencies are warning the situation might not improve for weeks, maybe months.
Australian songstress Olivia Newton-John has urged anyone with information on the whereabouts of her longtime boyfriend to "please, please come forward."
U.S. authorities are investigating the mysterious disappearance of the longtime boyfriend of singer Olivia Newton-John, the Australian Associated Press reports.
The U.S. Coast Guard plans to unveil sonar systems and robotic cameras Wednesday that it will use to safeguard cruise liners, merchant ships and other vessels from attacks in American ports.
Thirty-two Spanish-speaking people were picked up Friday by the Coast Guard from an islet off the Florida coast near Miami where they had been stranded, said a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol.
Weather conditions improved Sunday as crews continued efforts to clean up an oil spill from a broken freighter off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed Wednesday off Alaska's Aleutian Islands is safe, authorities said Thursday.
A 30,000-gallon crude oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia is being contained by floating barriers, a spokesman for the tanker's owner said Saturday night.
A secluded honeymoon cruise in the Caribbean for newlyweds Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren got unexpectedly crowded when armed officers of the Coast Guard boarded the couple's new mega-yacht Privacy.
A ship worker was rescued Wednesday after he fell from a cargo freighter and spent more than 12 hours in the Atlantic Ocean, the Coast Guard said.
The U.S. Coast Guard will soon begin enforcing new regulations to try to prevent ships from around the world from delivering unwanted and sometimes destructive cargo.
The inability to urinate on demand can cost someone a job.
A week after Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced that U.S. seaports and ocean-going vessels were in "full compliance" with new anti-terrorism security standards, a Congressional report is casting doubts on that claim.
While the world refocuses its attention to the G8 summit a few miles from here, the beaches are nearly empty, and the only people boating offshore are the police and Coast Guard.
The U.S. Coast Guard will not be prepared to handle its traditional mission plus the responsibilities that have arisen after the attacks of September 11, 2001, if it follows its current modernization plan, according to a new study.
The U.S. Coast Guard searched in vain Sunday for 18 crew members of a chemical tanker that exploded and sank Saturday evening in the frigid waters 50 miles off the coast of Virginia.
Three crew members have died when a tanker carrying industrial ethanol exploded and sank with 27 people on board about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast of Chincoteague, Virginia.
The U.S. Coast Guard is in the process of repatriating 531 Haitians intercepted on boats as they tried to make their way to the United States, U.S. officials told CNN on Friday.
As rebel-fueled turmoil continues to wrack Haiti, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is calling upon embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to do what's best for his people.
The United Nations Security Council is to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the turmoil in Haiti as the U.S. Coast Guard begins intercepting refugee boats.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it has picked up more than 500 Haitians attempting to flee their troubled island home by sea and will send most of them back to Haiti, where a spreading rebellion has stoked fears of a new wave of refugees.
A commuter flight carrying 10 people crashed into the icy waters of Lake Erie on Saturday after the pilot issued a distress call, the Coast Guard said.
The transfer of oil onto tankers at Alaska's port of Valdez resumed Thursday after a temporary shutdown which the U.S. Coast Guard attributed to the nation's elevated threat level, a spokesman told CNN.
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