Decommissioning the Coast Guard Cutter Brant
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Brant was decommissioned in St. Petersburg, Florida, March 17, 2022. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Hudson.
St. Petersburg, FL – Just shy of 20 years old, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Brant was decommissioned in St. Petersburg, Florida, March 17, 2022. Like the other Marine Protector-Class Coastal Patrol Boats (CPB), Brant was built in the...
Coast Guard suspends search for missing crew member off Florida Keys
Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-65 Dolphin helicopter file photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Parrinello.
KEY WEST, Fla. — Coast Guard Sector Key West watchstanders suspended the search for Adianel Morales, Thursday, pending new information.
The captain of the fishing vessel Bigfoot reported Morales missing Tuesday, at approximately 11 p.m., less than 1 mile from Marquesas Key to Sector...
Coast Guard medevacs man 172 miles west of Marco Island, Florida
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 file photo
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Coast Guard medevaced a man 172 miles west of Marco Island, Florida, Monday.
A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted a 72-year-old man from a 39-foot sailing vessel and transported him to Florida Keys International Airport, where emergency medical services awaited to assist the patient.
Coast...
Coast Guard repatriates 8 migrants to Cuba
Coast Guard Station Islamorada law enforcement crew interdicts a migrant boat with 7 migrants, Islamorada, Florida, March 2, 2021. The migrants were repatriated to Cuba. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Brant’s crew repatriated eight Cuban migrants to Cuba, Saturday.
Seven of the migrants were interdicted by a Station Islamorada law enforcement team off Islamorada’s...
Body of missing diver located off Key West
Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans file photo
MIAMI — Divers from a commercial dive company found the missing 50-year-old diver Jordan Fisher in the Vandenberg wreck off Key West at approximately 10 a.m. Wednesday.
A Coast Guard Cutter Brant search crew brought her body ashore.
A commercial dive company employee called Sector Key West watchstanders reporting Fisher missing Tuesday after she did not...
Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescue 2 men after their boat sank off Key West
Guard Station Key West 45-foot Response Boat-Medium file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen.
MIAMI — A Coast Guard rescue crew and a good Samaritan rescued two men after their boat sank, Saturday, near Key West.
After the good Samaritan rescued the man in the water, the man stated his boat sank around sunrise this morning and there was one other person missing. A Coast Guard Station Key...
Coast Guard, Gulfport Fire Department extinguish fire aboard Coast Guard Cutter Brant
Members from Gulfport Fire Department and a Coast Guard member extinguish a fire aboard Coast Guard Cutter Brant, which was moored in Gulfport, Mississippi, October 18, 2017. The two Coast Guard members who were aboard the vessel were evaluated by emergency medical services and have been released (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Sector New Orleans/released)
NEW ORLEANS – Members...
Coast Guard, partner agencies respond to adrift burning barge
The Coast Guard responds to an adrift barge that caught on fire approximately 2 miles west of Cat Island, Mississippi, August 3, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Davis)
NEW ORLEANS—The Coast Guard is responding to an adrift barge that caught on fire approximately 2 miles west of Cat Island, Mississippi, Thursday.
Gulfport Fire Department reports that they have extinguished...
Coast Guard concludes search for missing person near West Ship Island
USCG File Photo
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard concluded the search for a missing person near West Ship Island near Gulfport, Mississippi, Wednesday.
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources located the body of the missing person and transported the body to a nearby coroner’s office.
Coast Guard Station Gulfport watchstanders received a notification at 6:48 a.m. from the Mississippi Department...
