Coast Guard, partners agencies complete salvage of grounded tug, barge

Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations rescue crews assisted four people after their 70-foot tugboat, Sea Eagle, began taking on water approximately 3 miles east of Hillsboro Beach, Florida, Feb. 3, 2022. No injuries were reported. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — The Coast Guard, along with state and local partners, completed salvage efforts,...
Coast Guard, partner agencies respond to grounded tug, barge

Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations rescue crews assisted four people after their 70-foot tugboat, Sea Eagle, began taking on water approximately 3 miles east of Hillsboro Beach, Florida, Feb. 3, 2022. No injuries were reported. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
Miami — Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale and Customs and Border Protection Air...
Coast Guard suspends search for missing 34 people off Florida coast

Coast Guard Cutter Ibis’ crew searching for 39 people off Fort Pierce Inlet, Florida, Jan. 25, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for the 34 people missing at sea from a capsized vessel, pending new information.
A good Samaritan reported to Sector Miami watchstanders, Tuesday, at 8 a.m. that he had rescued a man from a capsized 25-foot vessel approximately...
Coast Guard searching for 39 people off Florida coast

Coast Guard Cutter Ibis’ crew searching for 39 people off Fort Pierce Inlet, Florida, Jan. 25, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — A good Samaritan rescued one person, Tuesday, from a capsized 25-foot vessel off Fort Pierce Inlet.
Coast Guard air and surface crews are searching for 39 people between Bimini, Bahamas, and Fort Pierce Inlet where the survivor was rescued.
The survivor was brought...
Coast Guard, partner agencies find missing person’s body in Miami River

Coast Guard Station Miami Beach 45-foot Response Boat-Medium file photo
MIAMI — Coast Guard and partner agencies found the body of a missing person, Saturday, in the Miami River.
Missing was 26-year-old Joustin Chavez.
City of Miami Fire department search crews found him in the waters north of the Rickenbacker Causeway off Brickell Avenue at approximately 7 p.m. Chavez’s sister initially reported...
Coast Guard crews find missing boater, suspected smuggler

A Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet rescue crew finds missing 54-year-old Juan Evelio Ferrer Gonzales and his stepson, in his 22-foot vessel off Jupiter, Florida, Nov. 16, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Station Lake Worth Inlet)
MIAMI — Coast Guard crews found 54-year-old Juan Evelio Ferrer Gonzales, Tuesday, at approximately 10:45 p.m. off the coast of Jupiter after he was reported missing,...
Coast Guard transfers 30 migrants to Bahamas; detains smuggler

A Station Fort Lauderdale law enforcement crew embarked 25 Haitians, three Colombians, one Chinese migrant, one Peruvian migrant, and one suspected Bahamian smuggler off Hallandale Beach, Florida, Sep. 18, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered’s crew transferred 30 migrants to Bahamian authorities, Wednesday, after their voyage was interdicted off Hallandale...
Coast Guard repatriates 22 migrants to Cuba

Eight Cuban migrants aboard a metal vessel approximately 1 mile east of Dania Beach, Florida, Sep. 13, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Isaac Mayos’ crew repatriated 22 Cubans to Cuba, Saturday, following three interdictions off the coast of Dania Beach and Key West.
While on a routine patrol, the Coast Guard Cutter Ibis crew notified Coast Guard Sector Miami watchstanders...
Coast Guard repatriates 102 migrants to Haiti

103 migrants aboard a 35-foot sailing vessel are interdicted by a Coast Guard Station Miami law enforcement crew approximately 12 miles east of Biscayne Bay, Florida , Sep. 16, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Diligence’s crew repatriated 102 Haitians to Haiti, Thursday, following an interdiction off of Biscayne Bay.
A good Samaritan notified Coast Guard Sector Miami...