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Aug. 15, 2023

Coast Guard conducting training exercise in the Straits of Mackinac

SAINT IGNACE, Mich. – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Sainte Marie will be conducting a series of search and rescue training exercises offshore of Saint Ignace, Mich., in the afternoon and evening of Wednesday.

Aug. 14, 2023

Coast Guard publishes updated temporary deviation for Okeechobee Waterway, St. Lucie River Railroad Bridge

MIAMI – The Coast Guard is seeking comment on the updated temporary deviation from the operating

Aug. 14, 2023

Coast Guard shifts response focus to maritime environment after Maui Fires

HONOLULU - Coast Guard first responders are shifting the focus of response resources to minimizing maritime environmental impacts from the Maui fires while remaining ready to respond to any new reports of individuals in the water, Monday.

Aug. 14, 2023

MULTIMEDIA RELEASE: Coast Guard, Navy rescue 4 missing male divers 46 miles southeast of Cape Fear River

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard and Navy rescued four missing male divers Monday 46 miles

Aug. 14, 2023

PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard, partner agency rescue 3 from Ponce de Leon Inlet jetties

PHOTO RELEASE: The Coast Guard and Volusia County Beach Safety crews rescued three people, Sunday, after they became stranded on the Ponce de Leon Inlet jetties in Ponce Inlet.

Coast Guard Cutters Kukui, Cypress, Fir, Anthony Petit, and Elm moored in Juneau Alaska for the annual Buoy Tender Round-up, August 18, 2022. Buoy Tender Round-up is a week-long event that gives participants an opportunity to receive specialized training, provide discussions to enhance operations, and hold a Buoy Tender Roundup Olympics to test their seamanship skills. -U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Cmdr. Scott McCann

Aug. 14, 2023

Media Availability: Coast Guard to conduct Buoy Tender Olympics in Juneau, Alaska

The 17th District Annual Buoy Tender Round-up (BTR) is a week-long event that gives the participants an opportunity to receive specialized training, provide discussions to enhance operations, and test their seamanship skills.

A U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) station keeps alongside a multi-year ice floe while a team of crew and researchers install equipment in the Beaufort Sea, Aug. 6, 2023. The Healy is ideal for science and research projects like the Arctic Mobile Observing System; providing access to the most remote reaches of the Arctic Ocean; areas barricaded by pack ice and insurmountable by most research vessels. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Briana Carter)

Aug. 14, 2023

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, scientists deploy ice stations

BEAUFORT SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers ventured onto a floe of multi-year ice for the first of three multi-instrument ice stations in the Arctic Ocean Basin late July and early August. As the Healy carefully approached and maintained position alongside an ice floe above 77 degrees north, the crew and a team of scientists, working in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research, (ONR) offloaded a diverse collection of equipment on to the floe carefully selected for its size and composition of multi-year ice.

Aug. 13, 2023

Coast Guard searching for 4 missing male divers 50 miles south of Cape Fear, North Carolina

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is searching for four missing male divers Sunday 50 miles south of

A Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg boat crew rescued a boy after he was injured in a collision between two boats 13 miles northwest of Egmont Key, Florida, Aug. 12, 2023. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders were notified that upon both vessels colliding a 14-year-old boy fell overboard and sustained lacerations to his arm from a propeller. (U.S. Coast Guard photo.)

Aug. 12, 2023

Coast Guard rescues 14-year-old boy near St. Petersburg

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg boat crew rescued a boy, Saturday after he

Aug. 11, 2023

Coast Guard, partners expand response efforts for Maui Fires

HONOLULU — The Coast Guard, along with federal, state, and local partners continue to respond following the Lahaina wildfires in Maui.

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PHOTOS AVAILABLE: Coast Guard Station Port Aransas holds change-of-command ceremony https://t.co/i8I4QCMSyF

Media Availability: USCGC Legare to return home following a 69-day patrol in the Florida Straits https://t.co/qQwF8ArjN0

Coast Guard icebreaker departs for months-long Arctic deployment https://t.co/JNZBmu4j9j

Coast Guard icebreaker departs for months-long Arctic deployment https://t.co/8gSqJ7ove5

Unified Command stands down from response to fire aboard motor vessel Grande Costa D’Avorio at Port Newark https://t.co/D9aMs0kr97

Coast Guard Tactical Law Enforcement Team South holds change of command ceremony https://t.co/kgNii5ilKP

Unified Command transitions from shipboard fire response to investigation and salvage operations at Port Newark https://t.co/7gHK5r9Ut4

Coast Guard repatriates 27 migrants to Dominican Republic, following vessel interdiction in Mona Passage https://t.co/ejzFtniVX6

Coast Guard repatriates 27 migrants to Dominican Republic, following vessel interdiction in Mona Passage https://t.co/6O7stlpuOi

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Unified Command to provide update on vessel fire at Port Newark https://t.co/vopXwYvhtC

PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard rescues man from disabled vessel off Ponte Vedra Beach https://t.co/gWJEIBTH9a

Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay (WTGB 105) Change of Command Ceremony https://t.co/I1QWDV99nL

Coast Guard, state, local first responders to conduct boat drills on Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana. https://t.co/PsZUeCVxqH

Coast Guard medevacs crew member from oil rig 88 miles off Freeport, Texas https://t.co/n5P2u8Bl3z

UPDATE 2: Unified Command continues response to fire aboard motor vessel Grande Costa D’Avorio at Port Newark https://t.co/kqHY7xjfej

Coast Guard assists 11 beset by weather on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana https://t.co/qQQ9GnzX94

Coast Guard rescues 4 from vessel taking on water 30 miles off Baffin Bay, Texas https://t.co/5LfFLQAd03

UPDATE 1: Unified Command continues response to fire aboard motor vessel Grande Costa D’Avorio at Port Newark https://t.co/qNZn6Wvpkz

Unified Command continues response to fire aboard motor vessel Grande Costa D’Avorio at Port Newark https://t.co/lXS77UQ0f6

PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Port Canaveral holds 1st change-of-command ceremony https://t.co/S0GMwft5Lw

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