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The Coast Guard was conducting a training mission when they received a mayday call.

A newly minted Coast Guard rescue swimmer saved a man’s life at the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state just after a giant wave rolled the yacht he was piloting and threw him into the surf.

The U.S. Coast Guard and partners have suspended the search for a missing 27-year-old diver off Fanshell Beach on Sunday. 

Rescuers searched for a third day Tuesday for a Hawaii fisherman who went overboard from a boat after hooking a tuna over the weekend, authorities said.

The bodies of four people killed in a helicopter crash near New Orleans last week have been recovered, company officials said Tuesday.

Issak Olson went as far as giving up his parental rights to his child but was still expelled from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, which prohibits its cadets from being parents.

“Smash” star Megan Hilty is mourning the loss of her sister, brother-in-law and their child, who all died in a plane crash near Whidbey Island in Washington.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued seven people after their boat was struck by lightning off the Florida coast.

The Coast Guard, along with other law enforcement agencies, have been ramping up their efforts to identify those charter boats operating illegally along San Diego’s coast.

At least 38 people have been rescued and 11 bodies found as the U.S. Coast Guard scoured the open waters northwest of Puerto Rico on Friday via boat, plane and helicopter in a bid to find more survivors after a boat carrying suspected migrants capsized. The group was first spotted Thursday morning by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter,…

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard from a cruise ship as it approached Florida

Authorities say the U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a cargo ship adrift off the Northern California coast.

The death toll from a suspected human smuggling boat that capsized in a storm off Florida with 40 people aboard reached five Thursday, as the active search for survivors was set to be suspended, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. Capt. Jo-Ann F. Burdian announced at a news conference Thursday that four more bodies were found in the previous 24 hours…

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 39 people after the boat they were on reportedly capsized about 45 miles off Florida’s coast over the weekend.

Three fishermen were rescued after their boat capsized off Tomales Bay, north of San Francisco, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

An oil slick off the coast of Newport Beach was caused by a spill from an offshore rig, and has dumped 126,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. City officials cancelled the last day of the Pacific Airshow for cleanup efforts.