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March 14, 2025

MEDIA ADVISORY: Coast Guard Pacific Northwest Updates Media Contact Information

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard 13th District, which includes the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, has updated it’s media contact information.

March 14, 2025

Coast Guard conducts joint operation to disrupt illicit maritime activity in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — A Coast Guard law enforcement team from Sector Delaware Bay led a joint operation with partner agencies to ensure compliance with federal regulations at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal, Tuesday.

Crew members assigned to Coast Guard Cutter Reliance (WMEC 615) are lowered by the ship's davit for small boat operations in the Florida Straits, Jan. 31, 2025. Reliance conducted a 60-day patrol in the Florida Straits, Windward Passage and Gulf of America to safeguard U.S. maritime borders. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Sarah Kaleta)

March 14, 2025

Coast Guard Cutter Reliance returns home after 60-day maritime border security patrol

PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Reliance (WMEC 615) returned to their home port in Pensacola, Monday, following a 60-day patrol in the Florida Straits, Windward Passage and Gulf of America. Reliance deployed in support of Homeland Security Task Force – Southeast (HSTF-SE) and Operation Vigilant Sentry (OVS) while underway in the Seventh Coast Guard District's area of responsibility, where crew members contributed to safeguarding America by patrolling U.S. maritime borders.

March 13, 2025

Multimedia Release: Coast Guard Station Curtis Bay completes pistol qualification course

Coast Guard crew members from Station Curtis Bay and Sector Maryland-National Capital Region recently completed the Coast Guard's Pistol Qualification Course at the range in Fort Meade, Maryland.

March 12, 2025

Coast Guard detains 16 Mexican fishermen, seizes 2,500 pounds of illegally poached fish off Texas coast

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard interdicted and detained 16 Mexican fishermen engaged in illegal fishing and seized approximately 2,500 pounds of fish in federal waters off southern Texas on Tuesday night.

Aliens disembark from a Jayhawk MH-60 as U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection personnel standby.

March 12, 2025

Coast Guard rescues 15 aliens from disabled vessel off San Diego coast

SAN DIEGO — A Coast Guard Air Station San Diego MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued 15 aliens aboard an adrift vessel approximately 60 miles southwest of San Diego, Tuesday.

International partners from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, the United Nations, the European Union and the United States, stand on the flight deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Mar. 6, 2025. The Coast Guard supports deepening and expanding its relationship with Pacific Islands nations. The United States and Papua New Guinea share a relationship that is based on trust and mutual interests, with our long history of defense partnerships, commercial links, and people-to-people ties. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jennifer Nilson)

March 12, 2025

U.S. Coast Guard cutter arrives in Papua New Guinea, embarks law enforcement officers to conduct joint maritime patrol

At the invitation of the Papua New Guinea government, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) arrived in Port Moresby, Thursday, to embark Papua New Guinean law enforcement officers. This visit directly supports Papua New Guinea’s leadership in the Pacific Islands and its commitment to maritime security, specifically in combatting illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

The crews of Coast Guard Maritime Security and Safety Team Los Angeles/Long Beach and Coast Guard Cutter Petrel interdicts nine aliens aboard a 20-foot boat approximately seven miles southwest of Point Loma, California, March 10, 2025. The aliens were transferred to U.S. Border Patrol personnel. (U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy)

March 10, 2025

Coast Guard interdicts 9 aliens southwest of Point Loma, Calif.

SAN DIEGO — The crews of Coast Guard Maritime Security and Safety Team Los Angeles/Long Beach interdicted nine aliens aboard a 20-foot boat approximately seven miles southwest of Point Loma, Monday.

The crews of Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier and a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft interdict 32 aliens aboard an overloaded makeshift vessel in Mona Passage waters near the Dominican Republic, March 8, 2025. The aliens were transferred to the Dominican Republic Navy vessel Aldebaran for their return to Dominican Republic. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

March 10, 2025

Coast Guard interdicts, transfers 32 aliens to Dominican Republic Navy authorities for repatriation

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier transferred 32 aliens to a Dominican Republic Navy vessel, Saturday, following the interdiction of an overloaded makeshift vessel in Mona Passage waters near Dominican Republic. The interdiction occurred Saturday night after a forward-deployed Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew on a routine maritime border security patrol detected a 25-foot makeshift vessel in international waters, approximately 25 nautical miles northeast of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Sector San Juan watchstanders diverted the USCGC Joseph Napier to interdict the suspect vessel. Shortly thereafter, the USCGC Joseph Napier crew arrived on-scene and deployed the cutter’s over-the-horizon small boat which stopped the suspect vessel. Following the interdiction, the Dominican Republic Navy patrol vessel Aldebaran arrived on-scene and embarked all 32 aliens for their return to the Dominican Republic.

March 8, 2025

Coast Guard concludes response efforts at Sun Bay Beach, continues investigation regarding original source of reported pollution

Coast Guard Sector San Juan Incident Management Division personnel concluded response efforts to the mystery sheen reported on the Sun Bay Beach shoreline in Vieques, Saturday, after no further sheening or signs of pollution were observed in the water or shoreline. Coast Guard IMD personnel continue to investigate the cause and potential source of this incident.