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At approximately 3 p.m., watch standers at the Joint Harbor Operations Center detected a 30-foot cabin cruiser transiting into U.S. territorial waters. A Coast Guard Station San Diego 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boarding team was launched to intercept. The boarding team conducted the interdiction with no use of force and identified two suspected aliens aboard the vessel. Both suspected aliens claimed Mexican nationality and were transferred to U.S. Border Patrol custody.

Coast Guard interdicts 2 aliens near Mission Bay

May. 06, 2026 ·
 Press Release
U.S. Coast Guard District Southwest Phone: (206) 815-6689SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard members interdicted two...
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U.S. Coast Guard creates new Special Missions Command to counter maritime threats at home, abroad

May. 06, 2026 ·
 Press Release
WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard is standing up the Special Missions Command to oversee its deployable specialized...
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Haitian National Police members inspect interdicted drugs following a drug interdiction off Haiti, May 3, 2026. At the behest of the Haitian government, a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment deployed on the USS Billings stopped a suspected drug vessel carrying approximately 3,200 pounds of marijuana. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, interdicts suspected drug vessel off Haiti

May. 05, 2026 ·
 Press Release
MIAMI – A Coast Guard law enforcement detachment deployed on the USS Billings stopped a suspected drug...
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Coast Guard medevacs cruise ship passenger southwest of Shelter Cove

May. 03, 2026 ·
 Press Release
The Coast Guard medevaced an ailing cruise ship passenger 45 miles southwest of Shelter Cove, Saturday.
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A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew, U.S. Border Patrol, CG Base Borinquen personnel and local agency responders medevac five migrant aliens following an unlawful migration voyage vessel landing at Survival Beach in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, April 29, 2026.

Coast Guard, U.S. Border Patrol, local emergency responders medevac 5 migrant aliens at Survivor’s Beach in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

May. 01, 2026 ·
 Press Release
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew, U.S. Border Patrol, CG Base Borinquen personnel...
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U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for fishing vessel crewman over 1,200 miles offshore Hawaii

Apr. 30, 2026 ·
 Press Release
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search at 4:30 p.m. Thursday for a fishing vessel crewman in the...
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A historical photo of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, which was lost in 1918 during World War I after being torpedoed by a German submarine. Tampa’s wreckage was recently located off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, marking the largest single naval American combat loss of life in World War I.

Wreckage of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa Discovered Off Cornwall, United Kingdom

Apr. 29, 2026 ·
 Press Release
The wreckage of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa has been located and confirmed by the British technical-diving...
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U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Antony Stark, an aviation maintenance technician assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point in Kapolei, Hawaii, conducts an aerial search of Pagan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands April 27, 2026. Search efforts for the missing crew members of the cargo ship Mariana began after Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu watchstanders lost communications with the vessel on April 15. (U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Air Station Barbers Point)

U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for crew of capsized vessel offshore Saipan

Apr. 29, 2026 ·
 Press Release
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard suspended its search for the missing crew members of the cargo vessel Mariana at...
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