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. 

Three mariners were left adrift in the dark when their vessel sank in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Rescuers from the U.S. Coast Guard station in St. Petersburg arrived in time.

The Coast Guard is slated to continue solidifying its Pacific footprint with new funds from Congress as the service plays an increasingly prominent role in Washington’s regional strategy.

Four off-duty Coast Guard members helped rescue a distressed swimmer last week at a lake secluded in a South Jersey township.

The Key Bridge, knocked down after a cargo ship smashed into a support pier, wasn’t built with 100,000-ton ships in mind and was ill-prepared for vessel strike. It prompted a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into what went wrong and a Coast Guard probe into national port infrastructure.

Wednesday marked three months since the container ship Dali knocked down the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The collapse killed six construction workers, partially blocked Baltimore’s shipping channel until June and eliminated one of three harbor crossings in the city, slowing vehicular traffic.

The 984-foot Dali crossed the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and entered Norfolk waters around 5 a.m. The ship was escorted by the U.S. Coast Guard as it entered the Elizabeth River — the Coast Guard Cutter Sailfish, an 87-foot patrol boat, provided a 500-yard safety zone around the Dali.

A convoy of seven vessels is expected to sail the length of the Chesapeake Bay on Monday in what U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Baxter Smoak described as a “big milestone.” The vessel will be accompanied by four towing tugboats, a Coast Guard vessel and a work boat from a marine salvage company.

A Connecticut Blue Economy Coalition has formed to boost businesses linked to the sea through the products and services they sell. Last week they held a ceremony at Mystic Seaport Museum to mark the start of their work.

The commander of Coast Guard Station New York, the service’s largest and busiest multi-mission boat station, has been relieved of his duties due to a loss of confidence in his ability to fulfill the expectations of his position.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is blaming what he called the Biden administration’s “posture of weakness” for a fleet of Russian warships sailing less than 30 miles off South Florida’s coast earlier this week.

Senators berated the Coast Guard’s top admiral for her handling of the service’s sex-assault scandal, chiding her for not punishing anyone for the cover-up and stalling their request for more documents about the mishandling of the crisis at the service’s academy.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the Great Lakes freighter hobbled near Isle Royale in Lake Superior this weekend may not have suffered an underwater collision as originally thought.

Six people aboard a motorboat in Lake Tahoe were rescued Sunday by the U.S. Coast Guard after the vessel caught fire and sank. The passengers aboard were safe with no major injuries.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute returned to its St. Petersburg, Fla., homeport Saturday after a 60-day patrol of the Caribbean during which the crew stopped drug smugglers and helped in rescue efforts.

The reopening of Baltimore’s 50-foot deep, 700-foot wide shipping channel has been tentatively scheduled for Monday, U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Baxter Smoak told The Baltimore Sun Saturday afternoon.

The Michipicoten, a carrier ship longer than two football fields, began taking on water on Lake Superior around 6:53 a.m. about 35 miles southwest of Isle Royale, Michigan. At least 22 people were on board, the Coast Guard said.