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News Articles: Coast guard

A man survived a harrowing ordeal in open water as Hurricane Milton passed nearby, spending the night clinging to a large cooler before being rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew some 30 miles from shore.

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  • National

‘We were ecstatic:’ Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water

"We couldn't believe it, honestly, that he was OK," a pilot said as he described finding a man who spent the night of Hurricane Milton's landfall 30 miles from land.

October 11, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
The 'HELP' sign made from palm fronds is shown on the Pikelot atoll.

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  • World

3 men stranded on a Pacific island were rescued by spelling 'help' with palm leaves

The men began their trip on Easter Sunday and had been gone for six days when a woman called the U.S. Coast Guard to report them missing.

April 12, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A wooden migrant boat lies grounded on a reef alongside mangroves, at Harry Harris Park in Tavernier, Fla., last year. The U.S. Coast Guard says that since October, has it intercepted and returned about <a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3704408/coast-guard-repatriates-65-migrants-to-haiti/" data-key="28">130 migrants to Haiti</a>.

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  • National

DeSantis is prepping for a wave of Haitian migrants. Advocates say he's grandstanding

Florida's governor is deploying troops and law enforcement officers to intercept any migrants coming by boat from Haiti. Some Haitian-American leaders say it's more about politics than being prepared.

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Allen
In this image from a video released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Filipino sailors, bottom, look after a Chinese coast guard ship with bow number 5203 bumps their supply boat as they approach Second Thomas Shoal, locally called Ayungin Shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Sunday Oct. 22, 2023.

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  • Asia

Philippines says Chinese vessels hit two of its boats near disputed shoal

A Chinese coast guard ship and one of its militia vessels separately bumped a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a disputed shoal, Philippine officials said.

October 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coastguard ship, front, allegedly blocks the path of a Philippine Coast Guard ship near the Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea during a re-supply mission on Saturday Aug. 5, 2023.

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  • Asia

Philippines claims Chinese coast guard used water cannon on a boat in disputed sea

The Philippine military on Sunday condemned a Chinese coast guard ship's "excessive and offensive" use of a water cannon to block a supply boat from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel.

August 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland, Wednesday, June 28, 2023.

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  • National

Presumed human remains and more Titan debris have been recovered, Coast Guard says

The news came hours after the announcement that debris from the Titan, collected from the seafloor more than 12,000 feet below the surface of the North Atlantic, had arrived in Newfoundland.

June 29, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet

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Georgia-based CEO 'devastated' over loss of colleague aboard the Titan sub

One of the people aboard the submersible touring the wreckage of the Titanic has ties to Georgia.

June 22, 2023
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  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • Orlando Montoya ,
  • and 1 more
This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic.

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  • National

Search intensifies for the missing submersible as underwater noises are detected

Rescue teams seeking the submersible housing five tourists that had planned to visit the wrecked Titanic said "noises" had been detected close to where the sub ended contact with its mother ship.

June 21, 2023
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  • Willem Marx
The Quantum of the Seas cruise ship is docked at the Marina Bay Cruise Center Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 in Singapore.

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  • National

A cruise ship passenger is missing after going overboard in the Pacific Ocean

The passenger, a man from Australia, has been missing since Tuesday night. An air crew will resume their search at first light Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

April 27, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
A Carnival cruise ship docked in San Francisco, California.

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  • National

A cruise ship passenger was rescued by the Coast Guard after hours in Gulf waters

A 28-year-old man fell overboard from the Carnival Valor cruise ship hours before he was reported missing off of the southeast Louisiana coast. The passenger is in stable condition.

November 26, 2022
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  • Giulia Heyward
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  • Latin America

Cuba says at least 5 dead after boat heading to US crashes

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

October 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Ibis' searches for people missing from a capsized boat off the coast of Florida on Tuesday.

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  • National

Coast Guard finds 4 more bodies off Florida coast but will call off search

Authorities have found a total of five bodies, leaving 34 missing. The Coast Guard says it will call off its active search for survivors at sunset Thursday if it doesn't receive any new information.

January 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Cmdr. Jeanine Menze, stationed at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point in Oahu, Hawaii, in 2006.

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  • National

How the Coast Guard's 1st Black woman pilot helped give the next one her wings

Jeanine Menze was discouraged from pursuing her dream to fly planes when she didn't see any women of color in the field. Then she met La'Shanda Holmes. "When I met you, I saw myself," Menze told her.

October 02, 2021
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  • Eleanor Vassili and
  • Emma Bowman
Mexican fishermen tend to their nets on Bagdad Beach, just south of the Texas-Mexico border. Red snapper poaching along the Gulf is a multi-million dollar black market.

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  • National

A Battle On The Gulf Pits The Coast Guard Against Mexican Red Snapper Poachers

Mexican fishermen are illegally plundering tons of red snapper from the lower Texas Gulf, raising the ire of the U.S. Coast Guard, Texas fishermen, marine biologists and the federal government.

July 18, 2021
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  • John Burnett
The capsized shipping vessel near St. Simons Island.

UGA Scientist: There Is Oil In Marshes Near St. Simons

There is definitely oil in the marshes near St. Simon’s island where a shipping vessel capsized this month. That’s the conclusion of University of...

September 24, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
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