Coast Guard prepares for Lobster Mini Season
A lobster is measured to ensure Florida Fish and Wildlife regulations are adhered to during the Sport Lobster mini season off Key West, Florida, July 28, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest).
KEY WEST, Fla. — The Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are ramping up safety inspections and fishery boardings, Wednesday, during the 2023 Lobster...
Coast Guard to host training exercise in Rogers City
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Sainte Marie personnel and partner agencies will be conducting an environmental response exercise Thursday at the Carmeuse facility in Rogers City, Michigan.
Local residents will see increased emergency response activities on Lake Huron as multiple government and commercial agencies led by the Coast Guard test their response to an oil spill.
Operation...
Coast Guard responds to partially sunken tugboat
Containment boom limits diesel discharge from a partially sunken tugboat in Florence, Alabama, July 17, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Marine Safety Detachment Nashville)
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard and partner agencies continued to respond Monday to a discharge of diesel fuel from a partially sunken tugboat near Florence, Alabama.
Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley received notification at...
Coast Guard seizes 660 pounds of illegal fish off Texas
Coast Guard Station South Padre Island 33-Foot Special Purpose Craft-Law Enforcement file photo by PA2 Adam Eggers.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard interdicted a lancha crew and seized approximately 660 pounds of illegally caught red snapper in waters subject to U.S. law enforcement off southern Texas, Wednesday.
Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi command center watchstanders received a notification...
Coast Guard icebreaker departs for Arctic
Family members of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew prepare to wave goodbye from the pier in Seattle, July 11, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Annika Hirschler)
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) departed Seattle, Tuesday, for a months-long Arctic deployment.
The crew aboard Healy, a 420-foot icebreaker, will provide U.S. surface presence in the Arctic, conduct...
Coast Guard crew services navigation buoys off Oahu
The Coast Guard Cutter Juniper crew visited Kaneohe Bay on the east side of the Island of Oahu, as part of a multi-day operation to service and maintain aids to navigation, last week.
HONOLULU – The Coast Guard Cutter Juniper crew visited Kaneohe Bay on the east side of the Island of Oahu, as part of a multi-day operation to service and maintain aids to navigation, last week.
Juniper’s trip...
Completion of Sea Jay recovery operation near Santa Cruz Island
The charter passenger vessel Sea Jay sits just below the surface of the water near Santa Cruz Island, June 15, 2023.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Coast Guard and the California Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) completed the salvage operation of the charter passenger vessel Sea Jay near Santa Cruz Island Saturday.
This operation included underwater assessment, re-floating, stabilization,...
Coast Guard continues response to vessels affected by Typhoon Mawar
Chief Petty Officer Roderick Bawar, a Marine Science Technician stationed at U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia / Sector Guam, conducts port assessments in Guam May 29, 2023, following Typhoon Mawar. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Graham)
SANTA RITA, Guam — In the aftermath of the powerful Typhoon Mawar, U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam personnel continue...
Coast Guard responds to oil discharge near Natchez
Oil that was discharged into the water by a Kirby Inland Marine barge contained in hard and sorbent booms at mile marker 339 in the Lower Mississippi River, near Natchez, Mississippi, on June 11, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Pekrul)NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard continues to respond Monday to a discharge of oil from a barge on the Lower Mississippi River near Natchez,...
