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'We were ecstatic': Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water

12:07pm October 11, 2024

"We couldn't believe it, honestly, that he was OK," a pilot said as he described finding a man who spent the night of Hurricane Milton's landfall 30 miles from land.

The 'HELP' sign made from palm fronds is shown on the Pikelot atoll.

World News

3 men stranded on a Pacific island were rescued by spelling 'help' with palm leaves

10:50am April 12, 2024

by Ayana Archie

The men began their trip on Easter Sunday and had been gone for six days when a woman called the U.S. Coast Guard to report them missing.

A wooden migrant boat lies grounded on a reef alongside mangroves, at Harry Harris Park in Tavernier, Fla., last year. The U.S. Coast Guard says that since October, has it intercepted and returned about 130 migrants to Haiti.

DeSantis is prepping for a wave of Haitian migrants. Advocates say he's grandstanding

4:52pm March 21, 2024

by Greg Allen

Florida's governor is deploying troops and law enforcement officers to intercept any migrants coming by boat from Haiti. Some Haitian-American leaders say it's more about politics than being prepared.

In this image from a video released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Filipino sailors, bottom, look after a Chinese coast guard ship with bow number 5203 bumps their supply boat as they approach Second Thomas Shoal, locally called Ayungin Shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Sunday Oct. 22, 2023.

World News

Philippines says Chinese vessels hit two of its boats near disputed shoal

10:54pm October 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

A Chinese coast guard ship and one of its militia vessels separately bumped a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a disputed shoal, Philippine officials said.

A couple walk along the beach in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Health & Safety

Coast Guard and Navy rescue 4 divers off coast of Carolinas

10:39am August 14, 2023

by Associated Press

The Coast Guard and Navy rescued four divers who were reported missing Sunday off the Carolinas, officials said Monday.

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coastguard ship, front, allegedly blocks the path of a Philippine Coast Guard ship near the Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea during a re-supply mission on Saturday Aug. 5, 2023.

World News

Philippines claims Chinese coast guard used water cannon on a boat in disputed sea

4:55am August 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

The Philippine military on Sunday condemned a Chinese coast guard ship's "excessive and offensive" use of a water cannon to block a supply boat from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel.

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland, Wednesday, June 28, 2023.

National

Presumed human remains and more Titan debris have been recovered, Coast Guard says

1:49am June 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The news came hours after the announcement that debris from the Titan, collected from the seafloor more than 12,000 feet below the surface of the North Atlantic, had arrived in Newfoundland.

This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic.

National

Search intensifies for the missing submersible as underwater noises are detected

6:27am June 21, 2023

by Willem Marx

Rescue teams seeking the submersible housing five tourists that had planned to visit the wrecked Titanic said "noises" had been detected close to where the sub ended contact with its mother ship.

The Quantum of the Seas cruise ship is docked at the Marina Bay Cruise Center Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 in Singapore.

National

A cruise ship passenger is missing after going overboard in the Pacific Ocean

6:13am April 27, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The passenger, a man from Australia, has been missing since Tuesday night. An air crew will resume their search at first light Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

A Carnival cruise ship docked in San Francisco, California.

National

A cruise ship passenger was rescued by the Coast Guard after hours in Gulf waters

3:26pm November 26, 2022

by Giulia Heyward

A 28-year-old man fell overboard from the Carnival Valor cruise ship hours before he was reported missing off of the southeast Louisiana coast. The passenger is in stable condition.