The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the coastal defense, search and rescue, and maritime law enforcement branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the U.S. military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its duties. It operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, and can be transferred to the U.S. Department of the Navy by the U.S. President at any time, or by the U.S. Congress during times of war. Congressional authority transfers happened twice: in 1917, during World War I, and in 1941, during World War II.
A Japanese patrol boat and a large North Korean fishing vessel were involved in an accident on Monday, and the North Korean boat was flooded and about 20 of its crew were adrift in the Sea of Japan,.. Reuters - Published
A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who was arrested in February after prosecutors said he was plotting to attack Democratic politicians and TV personalities pleaded guilty on Thursday to weapons and drug.. Reuters - Published
A Carnival Cruise Line passenger is in critical condition after falling on the Carnival Valor cruise ship. The US Coast Guard said the 23-year-old male passenger suffered "multiple significant..
Rescue workers on Monday freed the final crew member trapped inside a South Korean cargo vessel that flipped on its side off the coast of Georgia, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Mia Womersley reports.
US Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship on Monday, drilling into the hull's steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel..
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Video shot late Sunday night shows a Coast Guard helicopter aircrew hoisting crewmembers from the stricken cargo vessel, Golden Ray as it listed in waters off the Georgia coast. Rough cut (no reporter..
Officials in the Bahamas say they have not given up on looking for survivors of Hurricane Dorian. The National Emergency Management Agency says it will focus on search and recovery of bodies before..
Lieutenant Lloyd Heflin of the U.S. Coast Guard confirms rescue operations are under way after the Golden Ray cargo ship flipped on its side in St. Simon's Sound off Georgia early Sunday morning. Rough..
Business Insider reports a U.S. government official has taken some of the blame in 'Sharpiegate.' Sunday, President Donald Trump claimed Hurricane Dorian was likely to hit Alabama. When contradicted,..
Divers searched for more bodies early on Tuesday around the wreck of a boat destroyed by a blaze off the coast of southern California, as authorities launched an investigation into one of the area's..
Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic day-long halt over the north-west Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water. At least five people died and 21 injured people..
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At least 25 people have died and nine are still missing after a fire raged through a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the southern California coast. US Coast Guard..
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The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday that it had launched "multiple rescue assets" to get 34 people off of a vessel that had caught fire near Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California...
A search was underway Monday for 34 missing in a pre-dawn fire that sank a commercial diving boat off Santa Cruz island. Reuters reports five crew members were rescued by a good Samaritan pleasure..
At least 29 people were missing and five crew members were rescued after a fire erupted aboard a commercial boat off the coast of Southern California, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday, while local..
The U.S. Coast Guard closed the upper Houston Ship Channel on Thursday morning as 11 Greenpeace USA protesters blocked a portion of the country's largest oil port near Baytown, Texas, the agency said. Reuters - Published
Divers on Wednesday recovered the remains of the final victim of a California dive boat fire that killed 34 people, as the U.S. Coast Guard issued a safety bulletin focusing on emergency escape routes,.. Reuters - Published
The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a safety bulletin following the Labor Day fire on a California dive boat that killed 34 people, focusing on emergency escape routes, crew training and the charging of.. Reuters - Published
Rescue workers on Monday freed the final crew member trapped inside a South Korean cargo vessel that flipped on its side off the coast of Georgia, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Reuters - Published
Rescue workers on Monday were planning to extract four missing crew members from a South Korean cargo vessel carrying about 4,000 cars to the Middle East that turned on its side off the coast of.. Reuters - Published
Four bodies were recovered on Monday by rescuers searching for 34 people missing after a pre-down fire sank a scuba diving boat off a Southern California island, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said. Reuters - Published
At least 29 people were missing and five crew members were rescued after a fire erupted aboard a commercial boat off the coast of Southern California, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday, while local.. Reuters - Published
A fire aboard a boat off the coast of Southern California on Monday left several people dead, according to a local television news report, but the U.S. Coast Guard could not confirm any fatalities,.. Reuters - Published
The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday that it had launched "multiple rescue assets" to get more than 30 people off of a vessel that had caught fire near Santa Cruz Island off the coast of southern.. Reuters - Published
The commanders of a rescue ship with 98 migrants aboard declined to leave Italian waters on Monday, turning down an option to take them to Spain and suggesting that Italy's Coast Guard should take them.. Reuters - Published
Tunisia's Coast Guard recovered on Saturday the bodies of 14 African migrants who drowned when their boat carrying more than 80 people sank after setting off for Europe from neighboring Libya, the.. Reuters - Published
One person was killed and another injured on Wednesday after a vessel collided with a dredge pipeline operating on the Calcasieu River Ship Channel near Hackberry, Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard.. Reuters - Published
The upper Mississippi River reopened to barge traffic on Friday as vessels were cleared to ship through St. Louis harbor, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said, and the situation quickly became a logistics.. Reuters - Published
Rescue teams and divers searched the waters of southeast Alaska on Tuesday for two passengers missing after a pair of sightseeing planes collided in midair, killing at least four people, the U.S. Coast.. Reuters - Published
Alaska rescuers on Tuesday were searching for two people missing after a mid-air crash between tourist sightseeing planes killed four, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Reuters - Published
Two seaplanes collided in mid-air on Monday over southeastern Alaska, killing at least four of those aboard, injuring 10 others and leaving two people missing, U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Aviation.. Reuters - Published
Two seaplanes collided in mid-air on Monday over southeastern Alaska, killing at least three of those aboard, injuring 10 others and leaving three people missing, U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Aviation.. Reuters - Published
The U.S. Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River near St. Louis to boat and barge traffic on Friday as excessive rains and heavy snow melt this spring swelled the major shipping waterway to.. Reuters - Published
A judge in Maryland has agreed to the pre-trial release of a U.S. Coast Guard officer accused of stockpiling weapons and plotting to attack Democratic politicians and TV journalists, according to media.. Reuters - Published
Ships were moving inbound and outbound on Monday morning through an area of the Houston Ship Channel that had been contaminated by a March chemical spill, the U.S. Coast Guard said, further loosening.. Reuters - Published
A total of 60 ships can neither enter nor exit the upper Houston Ship Channel, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday, because of clean up of a spill into the waterway connecting the busiest U.S... Reuters - Published
The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Mississippi River to all vessel traffic on Thursday near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after a towboat sank in the major commodity shipping waterway. Reuters - Published
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