COAST GUARD

The Coast Guard is not getting enough support from the Biden administration as migrant flood into South Florida via the straits, coming from Cuba and Haiti, DeSantis says.

On Wednesday, Dec. 28, the Coast Guard issued an alert on social media at approximately 2:30 p.m. stating that it received a report of a red and black ice shanty on an ice floe in the Saginaw Bay. No one was seen on the floe or inside the shanty and it is unknown if the shanty was occupied when it broke off, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is still searching and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been canvassing the nearby neighborhood. The Coast Guard is reminding ice fishermen that maritime traffic may cause widespread breaks in the ice. Saginaw River shipping season not over yet, warns Coast GuardIce fishing alert: Tugs to break up Saginaw River ice on way to Lafayette Bridge

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 34 Haitian migrants abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico

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 Justice Department report found that prison staff who worked at Hazelton spoke publicly about Bulger's upcoming arrival in front of inmates.

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.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced this weekend that its 2022 Christmas Tree Ship run has been a success. “The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw WLBB 30 has had a busy two days!,” the Coast Guard Great Lakes unit posted on Facebook this weekend. The Mackinaw crew tosses a wreath at the site of the 1912 sinking of the Rouse Simmons "Christmas Tree Ship." Bravo Zulu, shipmates!”The Mackinaw crew offloads trees in Chicago after crossing Lake Michigan. Read more Coast Guard stories from MLive:Coast Guard flies out to fix remote Michigan lighthouse known as ‘the Loneliest Place in the World’Why Traverse City’s Coast Guard helicopter crews can only wear flight suits 3 weeks a year

Nearly two dozen people were rescued from an overloaded sailing vessel off the coast of the Florida Keys on Monday, according to the Coast Guard.

A vessel carrying nearly two dozen migrants capsized about 50 miles off the coast of Florida on Sunday, leaving at least four people dead, the Coast Guard said.

JERUSALEM TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Three boats capsized Saturday while on Lake Erie in Northwest Ohio, leading to the rescue of seven fishermen. According to a news release from Jerusalem Township, four boat captains, along with the township’s fire department, the Coast Guard, Toledo Fire and Rescue, Oregon Fire and Rescue and state officials all were involved the in the rescues Saturday. There were no details on where the boats capsized on the lake. The temperature of the water near Toledo is about 54 degrees, according to the National Data Buoy Center. The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a kayaker who went missing Saturday near Sheffield Lake.

Greece's coast guard says at least five children are among the 22 people confirmed dead in the sinking of a sailing boat that had been 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.

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles away, a heavily-armed U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed up to a fleet of a few hundred Chinese squid-fishing boats not far from Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. Its mission: inspect the vessels for any signs of illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing.

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles away, a heavily-armed U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed up to a fleet of a few hundred Chinese squid-fishing boats not far from Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. Its mission: inspect the vessels for any signs of illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing.

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles away, a heavily-armed U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed up to a fleet of a few hundred Chinese squid-fishing boats not far from Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. Its mission: inspect the vessels for any signs of illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing.

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.

A Hawaii man, who is accused of fraudulently living for decades under the stolen identity of dead babies, has lost his lawyer due to a breakdown in attorney-client relationship.

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.

'Data gaps' in radar systems and an outage involving a Coast Guard marine warning system both played factors in the deadly capsize of an oil vessel near Louisiana last year.

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.

A Coast Guard boat crew saw two of the people fending off sharks, and both of them had injured hands.

FRANKFORT, MI – A man died while participating in a kayaking race on Lake Michigan over the weekend. The subject, identified as Nick Walton, was wearing a life vest and wetsuit. Personnel from U.S. Coast Guard Station Manistee recover the kayak used by Nick Walton in a race on Lake Michigan on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, near Frankfort. Walton fell out of the boat and was hoisted from the water by Coast Guard personnel. The Coast Guard was called when they saw him no longer mounting his boat.

Hurricane Ian's broad swath of destruction and storm surge has prompted search-and-rescue teams to branch out both geographically and tactically.

Search and rescue teams are uncovering scenes of enormous loss in the aftermath.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis detailed the state's response to Hurricane Ian, saying rescues are happening 'minute by minute' as communities begin to assess damage

MARIE, MI -- A Michigan native who was killed in the line of duty during World War I received a Purple Heart Monday, 104 years after his death. Marie Coast Guard during a ceremony that was planned for five years. The Sector Sault Ste. Marie Coast Guard accepted the Purple Heart on behalf of Busho’s family and will permanently display the medal at the Sector Sault Ste. Marie Coast Guard facility.

The person arrested pointed what appeared to be a gun at the Coast Guard rescue helicopter and the aircrew heard objects striking the aircraft.

Migrants picked up at sea by a mercantile ship and brought to Italy by the coast guard have reported to the UN refugee agency that six people died of thirst during the voyage

Investigators were working to identify the person whose body was pulled from Lake Michigan after being spotted about 12 miles from shore.

The crash in Mutiny Bay, near Whidbey Island in Washington state, left rescue crews searching into the night for the nine missing.

The Italian Coastguard had to rescue nine people from the sinking ship off the coast of Catanzaro Marina.

Two swimmers remain missing after a group of people jumped off the “Jaws” bridge on Martha’s Vineyard late Sunday night, officials said.

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.

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.

Italy's Coast Guard said this was just one in a series of rescues in recent days as people fleeing poverty or oppression seek a better life in Europe.

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

A Coast Guard spokesperson says the pilot was rescued after the plane crashed about 30 yards from shore on Friday. No one else was aboard.

Two people were rescued from an overturned boat on Lake Erie overnight Sunday in Monroe County.

Authorities in Greece say two members of a helicopter crew battling a forest fire on the Greek island of Samos died when it crashed into the sea

With four of the five great lakes surrounding us, 10,000 inland lakes and ponds, and a 35,000 mile web of rivers, streams, and wetlands, it is important to know the rules of the water road. Here is what we think you need to know if you’re heading out on the boat anytime soon.

A 59-year-old man died Sunday night after driving his vehicle directly into the St. Clair River, according to authorities.

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The Coast Guard has issued a warning that filling up your boat with gas from a roadside gas station could put you in danger out on the water.

The Coast Guard has issued a warning that filling up your boat with gas from a roadside gas station could put you in danger out on the water.

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.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 100 migrants and recovered two bodies after a sailboat ran aground on a beach near a jetty in southern Italy

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It will be the fourth day on the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court for Depp, who is suing his ex-wife for libel.

The Kazu 1 with two crew was taking 24 passengers on a scenic tour at Shiretoko National Park when it sent a distress call.

It's not yet clear why the man, identified by the Coast Guard as Tang Tran, went overboard.

It's not yet clear why the man, identified by the Coast Guard as Tang Tran, went overboard.

The Ever Forward was refloated just before 7 a.m. Sunday by two barges and five tugboats.

A container ship the length of more than three football fields has finally been pried from the muddy bottom of the Chesapeake Bay more than a month after it ran aground. After two unsuccessful attempts to dislodge it, and the subsequent removal of roughly 500 of the 5,000 containers it was carrying, the Ever Forward was refloated just before 7 a.m. Sunday by two barges and five tugboats. A full moon and high spring tide helped provide a lift to the salvage vessels as they pulled and pushed the massive ship from the mud, across a dredged hole and back into the shipping channel.

The floor of the Chesapeake Bay has been dredged and 500 containers are being removed from the ship in preparation.

The Great Lakes Coast Guard and others responded to a stranded passenger ferry in the Straits of Mackinac on Tuesday night.

The Great Lakes Coast Guard and others are responding to a stranded passenger ferry in the Straits of Mackinac on Tuesday night.

The vessel left Baltimore on Sunday carrying general cargo and grounded while it was on its way to Norfolk, Va.

CLEARWATER — A Coast Guard helicopter successfully evacuated a 7-year-old girl from a cruise ship 264 miles southwest of Clearwater on Sunday, the agency says. The girl and her father were flown to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg. Her condition was not released Monday. A crew member aboard the cruise ship Carnival Dream alerted the Coast Guard that a girl onboard was in ...

Once it reaches the St. Lawrence Seaway, it will make its way through the Great Lakes until it reaches Duluth. “Upon arriving in Duluth, Spar’s crew will assume Coast Guard Cutter Alder’s area of responsibility and continue maintaining aids to navigation, domestic icebreaking, search and rescue and law enforcement,” the Coast Guard said. “She is named after the former U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves, also known as SPARS. She is the second Coast Guard Cutter by this name, the first was SPAR (WLB-403) and was built here in Duluth in 1943,” the Great Lakes crew said in its Facebook post last year when it announced the changing of the cutters. The Coast Guard explained the switch this way:“Throughout the Coast Guard, the 225′ Juniper class buoy tenders are undergoing Midlife Maintenance Availability, during which critical ship systems are evaluated and extensive repairs are made.

Boat carrying 356 Haitians lands in Florida. About half of the Haitian migrants swam to shore after vessel ran aground, authorities say

BAY COUNTY, MI - Coast Guard Station Saginaw River responded to three separate search-and-rescue incidents Sunday, March 6, on the Saginaw Bay ice, rescuing three stranded fishermen and investigating two ultimately false reports. Linwood resident Ronald Penix Sr. lives next to the public access site and shared photos of the bay ice conditions Sunday morning on Facebook. “I host ice fishermen every year and ice fish myself,” Penix said. Ledesma also highly discourages anyone from going out on the Saginaw Bay ice right now, as he said high winds and above-freezing temperatures are creating very unsafe conditions. “The bay ice is not safe to be out on right now, it is breaking up as we speak,” Ledesma said.

PINCONNING, MI — Two people were rescued from the Saginaw Bay by U.S. Coast Guard personnel after the snowmobile they were on plunged through the ice. The Coast Guard crew launched a 22-foot Ice Rescue Transport and rescued the two people from the ice. Scene of a rescue performed by personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard Station Saginaw River in Essexville, who rescued two snowmobilers stranded on the Saginaw Bay on Feb. 25, 2022. “Fortunately, the survivors were wearing purpose-built ice fishing/cold water exposure suits,” the Coast Guard said. “Bravo Zulu to our rescue crew and our local partners for their steadfast dedication to the mission and for saving two lives on Saginaw Bay,” the Coast Guard stated.

An air traffic controller reported the plane was "behaving erratically on radar and then disappeared from the radar screen," the Coast Guard said.

Officials say they've found a debris field in the area where the single-engine plane is believed to have crashed off the coast of North Carolina.

Coast Guard authorities say 18 people were rescued from an ice floe that broke away in Lake Erie over the weekend.

A family is searching for answers in the shooting death of William Hagen.

Emergency medical services were standing by, but no one required medical attention, the Coast Guard said.

Emergency medical services were standing by, but no one required medical attention, the Coast Guard said.

The fatal shooting took place as Coast Guard officers tried to stop a boat crossing the Venezuelan border into Trinidad and Tobago, in what the island nation’s officials described as an act of self-defense.

Authorities are working to break up an ice jam in the St. Clair River Thursday afternoon amid wintry conditions and rising water levels.

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.

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.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew braved poor visibility and frigid rapids to reach a car partly submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, then lowered a rescue swimmer on a hoist who pulled out the driver trapped inside.

Chinese coast guard ships have blocked and used water cannons on two Philippine supply boats heading to a disputed shoal occupied by Filipino marines in the South China Sea.

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.

Authorities say four of five people aboard a commuter plane have died when it crashed on an island in Lake Michigan.

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.

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.

Coast Guard investigators say an underwater Southern California oil pipeline was likely struck by an anchor several months to a year before a leak spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude.

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.

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.

In August 2020, Detroit Fire Sgt. Sivad Johnson rushed into the Detroit River to rescue three children struggling to stay afloat.

Officials have recovered and identified the body of a Dearborn Heights man who disappeared underwater while swimming in Lake Erie this weekend.

A Dearborn Heights man disappeared underwater while swimming in Lake Erie this weekend and still hasn’t been found, officials said.

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 Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron is temporarily closed Thursday as authorities investigate a suspicious container found nearby.

The Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron is temporarily closed Thursday as authorities investigate a suspicious container found nearby.

A family is clinging to their faith as they hope for any sign that a man from Westland may have survived being swept out to sea in Florida.

Officials have recovered the body of a person who fell off of a boat into the Detroit River early Friday morning.

Divers searching the site of a capsized lift boat off Louisiana's coast have recovered two more unresponsive crewmembers.

DETROIT – A Michigan man is at the center of the search for a British woman who has gone missing the U.S. Virgin Island. Sarm Heslop went missing more than two weeks ago, but the investigation is at a standstill. Ryan Bane -- from Orion Township -- has reportedly refused to let investigators continue to search his boat after reporting his girlfriend missing while the two were sailing between islands. The FBI has joined the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) in the search. FindSarm.comAn attorney for Bane released a statement that said Bane allowed investigators on his boat and handed over Heslop’s personal items.

DETROIT – Glen Richard Mousseau was sentenced Wednesday to 71 months imprisonment after having plead guilty to using a submarine business to smuggle drugs between the United States and Canada. Original Story: Man using submarine to smuggle drugs across Detroit River found tied to floating bags of marijuanaMousseau, 49, is from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. After trying to stop the vessel, agents said they saw two large bundles being thrown into the water. While approaching the bundles, agents said they saw an unconscious man in the water. More Information: Man using submarine to smuggle drugs across Detroit River found tied to floating bags of marijuana

(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)ST. IGNACE, Mich. – An Army veteran already jailed in Ohio after the roof of a Cincinnati skyscraper was accessed has been accused of scaling the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan to take photos. Issac Wright, 25, of Cincinnati, was arraigned Thursday via video in Cheboygan District Court on a charge of felony trespass upon a key transportation facility. Photos taken on the bridge’s south tower were posted in November on social media. The bridge connects Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas. Chartier said she only is representing Wright in the Michigan bridge case.

DETROIT – The U.S. Coast Guard said it is searching for a man who was reportedly seen falling through the ice Wednesday evening near Belle Isle. Emergency personnel responds to a report of a man fallen through the ice at Belle Isle on Feb. 17, 2021. The man was seen falling through the ice. The Coast Guard was conducting a search of the Detroit River on Wednesday night. More: Detroit River news