Audio recordings released by the Coast Guard capture the distress of a family who was rescued two days after their boat caught fire and sank, forcing them to swim to a private island.

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

Chinese coast guard ships have used powerful water cannons and rammed a Philippine government vessel near Thitu Island in the South China Sea.

A German nonprofit organization says three young Sudanese sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Philippine military has blamed China for a collision between two Chinese navy and coast guard ships in disputed waters.

Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that Italy can't be held liable for the actions of the Libyan Coast Guard.

The Department of Homeland Security wants to spend $50 million to buy a new long-range Gulfstream jet, replacing one used by Secretary Kristi Noem and top Coast Guard and DHS officials.

Ten days after a boat capsized on the St. Johns River, crews have located the final missing child, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

A child remains unaccounted for nearly 60 hours after a vessel capsized on the St. Johns River near the Dames Point Bridge, sending 8 people into the water.

Coast Guard officials said that the vessel they were on capsized near Goat Island on Friday evening, prompting the search for survivors.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Wednesday evening at Homestead Air Force Base to speak on the issue of illegal immigration, touting some of the state-led steps that have been taken to enforce immigration laws.

An Italian navy ship has taken migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome.

The Philippine coast guard says Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the South China Sea, forcing them to cancel the operation.

A new report by a congressional subcommittee accused former top Coast Guard officials of hiding a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service’s academy in Connecticut from both Congress and the public.

The U.S. Coast Guard offloads more than 16,100 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades in Florida.

Dozens of businesses and attractions are honoring veterans and active duty military members for 2024

Nine additional former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have formally accused overseers of the prestigious service academy of failing to prevent and properly address sexual violence on campus, while also covering it up.

An engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board says the carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process.

The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic said he hopes the legacy is a renewed interest in exploration.

Thirteen former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are accusing overseers of the Connecticut school of failing to prevent sexual violence on campus and covering it up.

One of the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the implosion of an undersea submersible is seeking to move the case from state to federal court.

Chinese coast guard ship have fired water cannons, blocked and rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel in the disputed South China Sea, where hostilities between the Asian neighbors have flared alarmingly at sea and spread into the air in recent weeks.

The Philippine military chief has condemned what he said was the provocative actions of two Chinese air force aircraft that executed a dangerous maneuver and dropped flares in the path of a Philippine air force plane on routine patrol in the South China Sea.

Officials say a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone.

U.S. Coast Guard crews worked to unload some $96 million in interdicted drugs at a South Florida port as a trio of suspected smugglers await trial in federal court.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five stranded boaters off of the coast of Florida on Sunday.

The president of the Philippines says his country will not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines will never instigate a war.

The Philippine military chief has demanded China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea.

U.N. agencies say 64 people are missing after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued by the Italian coast guard.

New video shows an incredible rescue at sea off the Florida coast.

The U.S. Coast Guard sent their helicopter to rescue a woman suffering a medical emergency on a cruise ship off of the coast of Florida early Wednesday morning.

The 24-foot vessel was struck by lightning about two miles east of Cape Canaveral, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas.

In the moments before the cargo ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and sent it crumbling into the water, a flurry of urgent warnings crackled over radios and enabled police to block traffic from getting on the span, likely saving lives.

A crane that can lift 1,000 tons has appeared near the site of a collapsed highway bridge in Baltimore as crews prepare to begin clearing wreckage.

Taiwan’s Coast Guard says two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by the coast guard off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a lithium-ion battery fire on a cargo ship is out after days of burning off the coast of Alaska.

The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

Wednesday, Kerry Sprague's life changed in an instant. The Coast Guard veteran was at work when she got a devastating phone call from her neighbor.

The Coast Guard has launched a formal investigation into the collapse of a mast aboard a historic schooner that killed one person and injured three others off Maine's seacoast.

The Coast Guard says it has recovered remaining debris, including presumed human remains, from a submersible that imploded in June on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five onboard.

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Lee has formed and is quickly intensifying.

Two Philippine security officials said that the United States, Japan and Australia are planning a joint navy drill this week in the South China Sea off the western Philippines after a recent show of Chinese aggression in the disputed waters.

A 25-year-old missing boater was rescued Saturday morning off the St. Augustine coast after being at sea for more than 24 hours, the United States Coast Guard said.

A boater who had been missing for more than a day and a half was rescued off the Florida coast in a half-submerged boat.

Two Orlando Police officers recovering in the hospital after being shot late Friday night.

On July 24, 2015, Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen left on a fishing trip.

The U.S. Coast Guard searches for a cruise ship passenger who went overboard.

The operators of the underwater robot that located the missing submersible Titan quickly learned that it was up to them to find the vessel after other deep-sea experts had tried unsuccessfully.

The USS Silversides was a vital weapon for the U.S. Navy during the Pacific Theater of World War II

A day after revelations that the Titan submersible imploded, officials are searching the ocean floor for evidence and determining who will be responsible for investigating the international disaster.

About an hour and a half into its voyage, a missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic lost communications.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a missing submersible imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 35-year-old man who went overboard from a cruise ship 186 miles east of Jacksonville earlier this week, according to a news release.

Some 1,200 migrants have arrived since Sunday on a tiny Italian island.

The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats.

Three migrants died and 16 have been rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby coast of Turkey hit rocks in high winds.

Police in Oregon have arrested a Canadian man who allegedly stole a yacht and had to be rescued by a Coast Guard swimmer.

A man who was saved by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer at the mouth of the Columbia River on Friday was wanted by police for a bizarre fish dumping incident at the home featured in the classic film, “The Goonies.”.

An incident involving the Cuban coast guard in plain sight of the U.S. embassy in Havana had people scratching their heads on Monday.

A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay is faulting the pilot tasked with helping the ship navigate the waterway.

Greece's coast guard says five children are among the 22 people confirmed dead in the sinking of a sailing boat carrying migrants.

Rescue crews searching for dozens of migrants missing from the sinking of a sailing boat in rough weather off an island near Athens are recovering mostly bodies, with only one more survivor plucked from the sea.

Greece's coast guard is searching for dozens of migrants reported missing after the overloaded sailboat they were on capsized and sank in rough seas off an island near Athens.

The German non-governmental organization Sea-Watch is accusing the Libyan coast guard of threatening to shoot down their monitoring plane that helps documented the interception of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

A federal agency says an outage involving a Coast Guard marine warning system and “data gaps” in radar systems were factors in last year's deadly capsize of an oil industry lift boat off Louisiana's coast.

Two people died and five were missing after a boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized off the coast of the Florida Keys.

The European Union’s top court says maritime authorities cannot impound ships involved in search-and-rescue work just because they think the vessels might be overloaded due to the number of migrants aboard.

Approximately 200 gallons of iron sulfate were spilled at Port Canaveral Thursday afternoon, according to the Canaveral Port Authority.

Italy's Foreign Ministry says the first of some 300 Afghan refugees have arrived in Italy along a new humanitarian corridor organized by the Italian government and other groups.

Ships in the Mediterranean Sea have rescued over 1,100 people struggling to reach Europe in rickety smugglers' boats and found five bodies.

A boat carrying about 100 migrants had to be rescued by Florida officials Thursday.

Officials say two people were killed and 10 others had to be rescued after a nighttime boat collision near Key Biscayne, Florida.

Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they step onto rickety wooden boats as they attempt to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing.

Coast Guard rescue crews sprang into action to rescue passengers of a capsized vessel near Desecheo Island in Puerto Rico, according to the agency.

Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement.

A search is underway for a Malabar man who went overboard while fishing with friends off the coast of Melbourne Beach, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The sole survivor from a boat that capsized off the Florida coast with dozens of people onboard is sharing what he says led to tragedy on the high seas.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket finally broke a scrub streak Monday, vaulting an Earth observation satellite into skies so clear that the entire process from launch to landing back at Cape Canaveral was easily visible to watchers along the coast.

The U.S. government has launched a criminal investigation into whether a smuggling ring is behind a boat that capsized off Florida with 40 migrants onboard.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.

Italy's coast guard says seven migrants have died of apparent hypothermia on a packed wooden boat off the coast of Lampedusa.

The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following the deadly blaze that killed dozens of people on a scuba diving boat off the California coast more than two years ago.

The Philippines says Chinese coast guard ships have blocked and sprayed a powerful stream of water at two of its ships carrying supplies to troops at a disputed South China Sea shoal, prompting Manila to warn Beijing that the vessels are covered by a mutual defense treaty with the United States.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy's mainland.

Southern California harbor patrol boats picked up reports of a possible fuel spill off the coast on a marine radio emergency channel about an hour before the U.S. Coast Guard said it heard about oil on the water.

Data shows a massive cargo ship that was supposed to be at anchor repeatedly crossed over an undersea oil pipeline during a January storm.

Investigators believe a massive cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline.

Finding the cause of a major oil spill off Southern California, who is to blame and if they will be held accountable could take a long time.

Authorities say 17 Cuban migrants came ashore Sunday in Key West, where they were met by police and given breakfast.

After a crude oil sheen was detected on the waters off the Southern California coast, environmentalists feared the worst.

Oil has been washing up on Southern California beaches and wetlands all week since a leak in an underwater pipeline from an offshore platform sent tens of thousands of gallons of heavy crude into the ocean waters.

Evidence emerged Tuesday that a ship’s anchor snagged and dragged an underwater pipeline that ruptured and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Southern California.

Officials investigating one of California’s largest oil spills are looking into whether a ship’s anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing a major leak of crude.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued 125 migrants who took refuge on the rocky edge of a tiny uninhabited isle after one of their boats sank near Lampedusa island.

Evans is an attorney serving the Daytona Beach and greater Florida area, according to his website, and the Florida Bar Association.

The United States Coast Guard is using a C-130 plane in the search for a missing diver outside of Ponce Inlet.

Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has power restoration experts and generators at the ready as Hurricane Ida bashes the region.

Turkish authorities say the death toll from the severe floods and mudslides that struck the north of the country has risen to 17.

The United States Coast Guard offloaded drugs worth more than $1.4 billion at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.