A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.
The capture of two cocaine-laden semi-submarines in the past week has highlighted the increasing use of the vessels, which now transport one-third of illicit drugs in the eastern Pacific, a major route between Colombia and the United States, U.S. authorities said Friday.
The U.S. Coast Guard seized seven tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $8.4 million in what one officer called "the most dangerous operation of my career."
Even with Hurricane Ike more than 100 miles away, authorities began rescue efforts Friday, picking up more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.
A father and son who tread water for more than 12 hours in the Atlantic Ocean before being rescued spent much of the time in the dark seas not knowing if the other was alive, authorities said Monday.
The Dutch Navy and a squad of U.S. Coast Guard raiders seized 4.6 tons (4,200 kilograms) of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter that had set sail from Venezuela
The pilot of a massive tanker involved in a collision on the Mississippi River repeatedly warns a tug boat pushing a barge to get out of the way, but no one on the smaller boat responds, according to radio transmissions released by the Coast Guard
The oil spill that closed the Mississippi River at New Orleans is costing the U.S. economy $275 million a day, the head of that city's port authority told CNN.
The owner of the barge that spilled about 420,000 gallons of industrial fuel in the Mississippi River near New Orleans said Thursday the company was not to blame for the accident, but said it will be responsible for the cleanup.
A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.
The capture of two cocaine-laden semi-submarines in the past week has highlighted the increasing use of the vessels, which now transport one-third of illicit drugs in the eastern Pacific, a major route between Colombia and the United States, U.S. authorities said Friday.
The U.S. Coast Guard seized seven tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $8.4 million in what one officer called "the most dangerous operation of my career."
Even with Hurricane Ike more than 100 miles away, authorities began rescue efforts Friday, picking up more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.
A father and son who tread water for more than 12 hours in the Atlantic Ocean before being rescued spent much of the time in the dark seas not knowing if the other was alive, authorities said Monday.
The Dutch Navy and a squad of U.S. Coast Guard raiders seized 4.6 tons (4,200 kilograms) of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter that had set sail from Venezuela
The pilot of a massive tanker involved in a collision on the Mississippi River repeatedly warns a tug boat pushing a barge to get out of the way, but no one on the smaller boat responds, according to radio transmissions released by the Coast Guard
The oil spill that closed the Mississippi River at New Orleans is costing the U.S. economy $275 million a day, the head of that city's port authority told CNN.
The owner of the barge that spilled about 420,000 gallons of industrial fuel in the Mississippi River near New Orleans said Thursday the company was not to blame for the accident, but said it will be responsible for the cleanup.
The U.S. Coast Guard closed 98 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, southward after a fuel barge and a tanker collided early Wednesday, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Australian songstress Olivia Newton-John has urged anyone with information on the whereabouts of her longtime boyfriend to "please, please come forward."
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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