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Feb. 26, 2025

Coast Guard encounters over a dozen aliens off the coast of southern California

PHOTO AVAILABLE: The Coast Guard encountered over a dozen aliens off the coast of southern California early Tuesday morning.

Coast Guard Sector Miami law enforcement officers, along with federal and state law enforcement partners, board the 52-foot cabin cruiser Second Wind in Miami, Feb. 22, 2025. The owner of the Second Wind was reportedly operating the vessel as an illegal charter, with 13 passengers for hire on the vessel, violating a previously issued Captain of the Port Order from January 2023 for conducting other passenger for hire operations. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Feb. 25, 2025

Coast Guard Sector Miami, partners stop 12 illegal charters, 2 violated federal orders

MIAMI — Coast Guard Sector Miami law enforcement officers, along with federal and state law enforcement partners terminated 12 illegal charter voyages, Friday-Sunday, on Biscayne Bay and Miami River.

Feb. 25, 2025

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Coast Guard, Port of Virginia Maritime Incident Response Team to host search and rescue forum in Hampton, Va.

Media is invited to attend the 19th annual Steven Todd Dooley Search and Rescue Forum to watch a Coast Guard search and rescue demonstration.

Feb. 24, 2025

Coast Guard suspends search for person missing near the entrance to the Ambrose Channel

NEW YORK — The Coast Guard suspended its search Monday at approximately 6 p.m. for a man who went missing after a boat capsized and five people were recovered near the entrance to the Ambrose Channel Sunday afternoon. Click the link to read the full release.

Feb. 24, 2025

UPDATE: Coast Guard continues search for one person after five recovered from sinking boat near the entrance to the Ambrose Channel

NEW YORK — The Coast Guard continues its search for a missing person after a vessel capsized Sunday afternoon near Breezy Point. To read the full press release, click the link.

The crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Benjamin Bottoms and the Coast Guard Cutter Haddock interdict 13 aliens off of Encinitas, California Feb. 21, 2025.

Feb. 23, 2025

Coast Guard interdicts 13 aliens west of Encinitas, Calif.

PHOTOS AVAILABLE: The crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Benjamin Bottoms and the Coast Guard Cutter Haddock interdicted 13 aliens aboard a panga-style vessel approximately 22 miles west of Encinitas, Friday.

Feb. 23, 2025

Coast Guard Actively Searching for One Person After Five Recovered from Sinking Boat Southeast of Breezy Point

NEW YORK — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for one person missing in the water approximately

A small boat crew assigned to U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126) transits to a commercial fishing vessel to conduct a boarding off the coast of American Samoa Feb. 7, 2025. During a recent law enforcement patrol, the Joseph Gerczak crew boarded two U.S.-flagged fishing vessels to ensure the territorial integrity of the U.S. maritime border and deter any threat of illicit trafficking. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Samuel Carrol)

Feb. 23, 2025

Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak returns home following 37-day law enforcement patrol in American Samoa

HONOLULU – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126) returned home to Honolulu Saturday following a 37-day territorial integrity patrol along the U.S. maritime border in American Samoa.

Feb. 23, 2025

Coast Guard rescues 3 boaters off Captiva Island

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Coast Guard crews located and rescued three overdue boaters, Sunday, near Captiva, after their vessel capsized.  

U.S. Coast Guard Fireman Lewis Metcalf, a boarding team member assigned to Coast Guard Station Honolulu, disembarks a yacht and steps onto the pier at Coast Guard Base Honolulu Feb. 21, 2025. A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Station Honolulu detained a man suspected of stealing the yacht from Kewalo Basin Harbor. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Robertson)

Feb. 22, 2025

Coast Guard, partners detain, arrest man for alleged yacht theft in Honolulu

HONOLULU – The Coast Guard detained a man suspected of stealing a yacht, resulting in his arrest by the Honolulu Police Department and State of Hawaii Sheriff Division in Honolulu Friday.