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A Coast Guardsman with Coast Guard Station Gulfport gives instructions to two boaters in distress approximately 3 miles southwest of Cat Island, Mississippi, August 27, 2023.

Aug. 28, 2023

Coast Guard rescues two from capsized vessel near Cat Island, Miss.

PHOTOS AVAILABLE: The Coast Guard rescued a 31-year-old man and 10-year-old girl on Sunday from their capsized vessel approximately three miles southwest of Cat Island, Mississippi.

Aug. 28, 2023

Coast Guard rescues 4 people, dog from sinking boat in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard rescued four people and a dog from a boat taking on water Sunday near

Aug. 28, 2023

Coast Guard urges preparedness ahead of Hurricane Idalia

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg units are preparing and will respond to impacts from Hurricane Idalia over the next few days.

Aug. 26, 2023

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, National Science Foundation embark on Arctic Ocean mission

KODIAK, Alaska – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers departed Kodiak, Saturday, for the cutter’s second mission this year in the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean. Healy’s next mission takes the cutter west, where the crew and a new team of researchers will support work of the National Science Foundation and International Arctic Research Center by servicing the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System (NABOS). The month-long mission’s objective is to recover, service, and deploy nine long-term subsurface mooring arrays, stretching from the Eurasian Basin to the East Siberian Sea.

Aug. 25, 2023

Coast Guard medevacs woman offshore Pensacola, Fla.

The Coast Guard medevaced a 60-year-old woman experiencing high blood pressure approximately 40 miles south of Pensacola, Florida.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active’s crew successfully rescued three endangered loggerhead sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean, July 10, 2023. The turtles were tangled in abandoned fishing gear, and the crew members removed the derelict gear and properly disposed of it to prevent further harm to wildlife. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Aug. 25, 2023

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active returns from 58-day counternarcotics patrol

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC 618) and crew returned to homeport, Friday, after a 58-day counternarcotics patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Sailing over 12,000 nautical miles, from the cutter’s homeport in the Pacific Northwest, Active patrolled in support of a Joint Interagency Task Force South counternarcotics mission. Active’s crew of 70 Coast Guard men and women worked over the course of multiple hours to locate and interdict a drug laden “go-fast” vessel using the cutter’s embarked small boats. A total of 130 kg of cocaine was seized and four suspects were interdicted.

A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew spots a disabled 24-foot fishing vessel near Southwest Pass, Louisiana, August 24, 2023. The three persons aboard the vessel were later towed in to Cypress Cove Marina by a Coast Guard Station Venice 45-foot Response-Boat Medium boatcrew.

Aug. 25, 2023

Coast Guard rescues 3 boaters near Southwest Pass, La.

IMAGERY AVAILABLE: The Coast Guard rescued three boaters Thursday from a disabled vessel near Southwest Pass, Louisiana.

Aug. 24, 2023

Coast Guard concludes search after fisherman rescues 2 missing scuba divers off ‘Caja de Muertos’ (Coffin Island), Puerto Rico

Coast Guard, police, and emergency management agencies concluded the search for two missing scuba divers who were rescued by a fisherman Wednesday night in Caribbean Sea waters off ‘Caja de Muertos’ (Coffin Island), Puerto Rico. Rescued are José Oquendo,25, and Emanuel Rodríguez, 29, after a local fisherman, reportedly a friend of the survivors, rescued them from the water just off the CariCOOS weather buoy a mile and a half south of ‘Caja de Muertos.’