NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard and other oil response agencies have begun demobilizing resources today involved in the clean up efforts of an oil sheen off the coast of Breton Island, La. The Coast ...

WASHINGTON – NOAA has extended the northern and southern boundaries of the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico to capture portions of the slick moving into waters off eastern Alabama and the ...

SEATTLE – Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 41, which provides volunteer civilian support to the Coast Guard in the Port Ludlow area, has established a new maritime Emergency Communications Center (ECC) ...

MIAMI – The crew of the 210-foot, Miami-based Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returned home Saturday at 9 a.m. concluding a 50-day deployment in the northern Caribbean. The crew of the cutter Valiant ...

HOUSTON — The Coast Guard is searching for an adult and a 10-year-old child that were reported missing in San Luis Pass, Sunday. Missing are a 48-year-old male from Missouri City and his 10-year-old ...

HONOLULU — The Coast Guard and County of Kauai are scheduled to conduct a search and rescue exercise (SAREX) off the southern coast of the island, Thursday. A SAREX is an exercise designed to evaluate ...

CLEVELAND – Having completed notifications of the next of kin, as well as debriefing immediate family members regarding the details of the search, the Coast Guard is officially releasing the names of ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard rescued four people from a capsized vessel Wednesday near the Destin Bridge in Destin, Florida. Coast Guard Sector Mobile watchstanders received a call at 8:40 p.m. from ...

NEW ORLEANS — A 57-year-old fisherman was medevaced from the 40-foot fishing vessel Reel Fish Bonz 46 miles south of Pensacola, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday. Timothy Lambert was reportedly ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. – A Coast Guard rescue boat crew saved a family of four aboard a sinking boat 8 miles off Bogue Inlet Sunday. The father called Seatow in Beaufort on his VHF radio and told them his ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Coast Guard rescued a spear fisherman south of Caja de Muertos, Puerto Rico, Monday. The young man, who had spent Saturday afternoon spear fishing with two friends, was ...

Jun 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Coast Guard investigating cause of Maine ferry grounding SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Coast Guard investigators are working with the Maine State Ferry Service to determine ...