The Coast Guard is planning a radical redesign that includes more personnel, improved technology and acquisition systems, and changes to its organization that include a service secretary.

Firefighters are being assisted by the Coast Guard helicopter crew, who are collecting water from a nearby mountain lake and dropping it onto the flames. Shout-out to skills of helicopter pilot ...

Personnel from the Coast Guard cutter Terrell Horne and USN guided-missile destroyer Spruance intercepted the boat about 3 1/2 hours later and took the occupants — seven men and a woman ...

VERO BEACH – The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 56 will host a Boating Safety Training Class in Vero Beach aimed at equipping boaters with essential skills and knowledge for safe and legal ...

Known as some of the toughest and most highly trained rescue personnel in the U.S. military, Coast Guard rescue swimmers—officially Aviation Survival Technicians (ASTs)—are called upon in the ...

The Irish Coast Guard has introduced a new streamlined initiative to make it easier for members of the public to express an interest in becoming a volunteer member of one the four principle blue light ...

GEORGE TOWN: Two species of the deadly box jellyfish, previously not thought to exist here, are breeding in the sea around Penang. Their venom causes Irukandji Syndrome, which includes severe ...

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — Coast Guard crews returned 99 undocumented Haitians Tuesday after intercepting their boat 35 miles off the coast of Haiti. According to a United States Coast Guard's (USCG ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rescued all 12 officers and crew of a cargo vessel that caught fire off Limbones Island in Nasugbu, Batangas yesterday morning. In a ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Fort Pierce Coast Guard boat crew rescued a kitesurfer Saturday after strong winds prevented him from navigating to shore. A 1 p.m. call to Sector Miami ...

THERE WAS NO QUESTION THAT THEY HAD TO BE. HE HAD TO BE MEDEVACED. THE SHIP’S MEDICAL STAFF CALLING IN THE COAST GUARD TO MEDEVAC HIM OFF THE BOAT. WE KNEW DEFINITELY THAT WHAT THIS MAN NEEDED ...

MANILA, Philippines — For the first time, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) patrol ship Gabriela Silang will be sent on a goodwill mission to Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam until April 20.