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Coast Guard searching for man overboard from cruise ship bound for Japan

HONOLULU – The U.S. Coast Guard is coordinating a search for a crew member from the cruise ship Pacific Venus, which was transiting south of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this past weekend on its way back to Japan.

Coast Guard works with AMVER partners to rescue of 12 fishermen

HONOLULU — U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue coordinators here and Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) partners rescued 12 fishermen Tuesday about 260 miles northwest of Midway.

Coast Guard medevacs child 250 miles east of Bermuda

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – Coast Guard crews medically evacuated a 5-year-old boy and his parents Monday afternoon from an oil tanker approximately 250 nautical miles east of Bermuda.

Coast Guard coordinates rescue of 3 people east of Bermuda

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard members found three people in distress and rescued them with the assistance of another mariner Sunday, approximately 600 nautical miles east northeast of Bermuda.

Coast Guard helps locate 24 aboard three canoes, search continues for one canoe with six aboard

CHUUK, Federated States of Micronesia— Search and rescue controllers with the U.S. Coast Guard in Honolulu and Apra Harbor, Guam, have located 24 mariners in a large-scale joint search near Chuuk, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009.

Coast Guard investigates airplane EPIRB alert

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard investigated an aircrafts emergency position indicating radio beacon alert approximately 1,035 miles northeast of Bermuda Monday afternoon.

Coordinated international effort leads to rescue of two men off Costa Rica

By: Petty Officer 3rd Class Levi Read
Every story has a beginning, middle and end. The story of a Coast Guard search and rescue operation is no different.  Often times though, when a search and rescue operation is recounted, you hear how it began and how it ended, but more often than not the middle section [...]