Barstool Sports owner and founder Dave Portnoy thanked the U.S. Coast Guard in social media posts Monday after his boat lost power in Nantucket Harbor and was towed back to mooring.
Lake Superior was calm, and the Michipicoten was plying deep waters June 8 when the ship’s crew heard a loud bang. The freighter began taking on water and issued a mayday. The U.S. Coast Guard rushed to the scene, evacuating half the ship’s 22 crew members. Inspectors would later find a 13-foot crack in its hull.
How to halt vehicle traffic due to a threat from a ship had rarely, if ever, been needed. But just 13 days before a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a harbor pilot had discussed updates to the procedure with fellow port stakeholders.
The U.S. Coast Guard found five people clinging to a cooler July 6, according to a social media post. Their 22-foot boat was “swamped” by a wave.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, an HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi conducted flyovers of a handful of coastal cities to assess the damage.
A crew from Coast Guard Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Fla., rescued five boaters Sunday after their vessel capsized.
As Tropical Storm Beryl closes in on Texas, a search is underway for two people missing after a boat crashed near Galveston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A body was found Saturday, but officials have not confirmed whether it is one of the missing boaters.
Nearly 70 Coast Guard veterans on Tuesday called on senators investigating the service’s sexual-assault scandal to force all Coast Guard leaders involved in the service’s internal investigation to testify in Congress about the yearslong cover-up.
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s class of 2028 reported for duty July 1, 2024, beginning their 200-week training working towards being commissioned as an officer.
The U.S. Coast Guard led a first-of-its-kind exercise in environmental disaster cleanup recently near Saipan alongside local and federal agencies, the service announced Tuesday.