US Coast Guard News

The Sonoma County coroner has identified an elderly couple whose bodies were recovered near Bodega Bay after they failed to return from a Thanksgiving Day crabbing trip.

Office of Public Affairs U.S. Coast Guard Press Release Date: Nov. 28, 2009 Contact: 808-535-3230 U.S. Coast Guard cutter Kukui returns to home port after five-month maintenance period in the Bay Area, Nov.

The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship temporarily lost power off the coast of Puerto Rico and was heading to the island for maintenance.

One person has been rescued and the U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a second possible person who fell into the water when a boat capsized near Half Moon Bay Friday afternoon, a Coast Guard operations specialist said.

Twenty-four of 30 mariners reported missing Sunday have been located by search and rescue teams with the U.S. Coast Guard in Honolulu and Apra Harbor, Guam during a joint search near Chuuk this week.

A weather buoy 20 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River has stopped transmitting wind data, depriving fishermen of key information shortly before the Dec.

After Detroit members of the U.S. Coast Guard spent hours searching for a missing boater in March, a 22-year-old Toledo man has been ordered to pay $112,735 in restitution to the agency for calling in a fake distress call.

A man's body was discovered in the waters off Bodega Bay Thursday afternoon and authorities are searching for a possible second person in the waters, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A Toledo man has been ordered to pay $112,000 in restitution for making phony distress calls to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Honolulu Fire Department continue to search for a missing 53-year-old male reported missing near Waialua on Oahu's North Shore today.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Rush returned to Honolulu yesterday after a three-month deployment to the Northwest Pacific and Asia.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy is towed to join other decommissioned ships at the Navy Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility March 22, 2008 into the Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The 327-foot Ingham, launched at Philadelphia in 1936, is the only cutter ever awarded two Presidential Unit Citations.

Capt. Michael Inman, Coast Guard 17th District Response Chief, presents the Coast Guard Arctic Service Medal to the entire ship's crew on board the Alex Haley at the Coast Guard pier in Kodiak Friday, Nov.

Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single digits.

The chief of the Fair Haven Fire Department was expected to be released from the hospital today after rescuers plucked him from the Navesink River which he jumped into following a motor vehicle accident Sunday night, authorities said.

Seven people who were reported missing in a skiff near Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia were found safe, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard Cutter Rush and crew participated in a search and rescue demonstration with Chinese vessels from East China Sea Rescue Bureau, Ministry of Transport, and the East China Sea Number One Flying Service in the Wusong Estuary River Nov.

An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Miami helped rescue a 62-year-old man who went overboard from a luxury cruise ship Nov.

The cutter will dock in Juneau, where public tours are scheduled Wednesday and Thursday.