Eight recreational divers spent more than 24 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Palau before they were rescued by a local fisherman, the US Coast Guard said.

Retired Adm. Karl Schultz told CNN this week that he feared Congress would politicize the information and pointed to Congress’s ongoing investigations as proof that he was right.

The U.S. Coast Guard will join its Japanese and Indian counterparts for first-of-its-kind training in Tokyo Bay early next year in conjunction with an annual summit in Tokyo.

A House panel on Wednesday leveled bipartisan criticism at the Coast Guard for delays in building Polar Security cutters needed to offset the growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic.

Between 12 and 30 drones were spotted following a Coast Guard lifeboat off the Jersey Shore Sunday night, according to U.S. Rep. Chris Smith. Smith also said an Ocean County Sheriff’s officer saw 50 drones moving over land from the ocean at Island Beach State Park over the weekend.

A large haul of cocaine — more than 16,100 pounds of cocaine, with an assessed street value of $182.8 million — is off the market.

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire a commercial icebreaker to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next generation of its cutters to be built in the next several years, service officials told lawmakers.

Vice Adm. Peter Gautier, deputy commandant for operations, told lawmakers that the Coast Guard recently witnessed the Russian Border Guard and Chinese Coast Guard conducting a joint patrol high in the Bering Sea in a worrying sign of growing collaboration.

A $1.7 billion missile-defense system proposed for Guam may have significant consequences for the island’s housing, health care and environment, according to a draft environmental impact statement.

Another nine former cadets of the Coast Guard Academy are seeking $10 million each from the service, claiming officials condoned and actively concealed the rampant nature of sexual assault and harassment of students, which knowingly placed them and others in danger, according to legal documents filed Wednesday.