When the brunt of Hurricane Sandy finally past the eastern seaboard early on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 , US Coast Guard crews were able to begin conducting overflights of the hardest hit areas which included coastal areas of New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island. What they observed was nothing short of tragic.

On October 29, 2012, the 3-masted wooden tall ship Bounty, a 1960's-built replica of the 18th century Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, foundered and sank in Atlantic Ocean off Hatteras, North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy.

This week mark's the 1 Year Anniversary of "Superstorm Sandy" and to commemorate we'll be taking a look back at some our best coverage from the historic weather event.

The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) on Thursday announced some key changes to its Hurricane warning system, particularly in the way it handles post-tropical cyclones. NWS says the the changes...

The Coast Guard said Thursday that it will convene a formal hearing in February together with the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the October 29th sinking of the tall...

Remember this? The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that salvage crews on Tuesday successfully lifted the 184-foot John B Caddell tanker off a Staten Island street and back into the water where...

(Bloomberg) — Gasoline advanced for the first time in three days in New York Harbor as the waiver of shipping regulations following Hurricane Sandy approaches an end even as supplies...

(Bloomberg) — New York Harbor gasoline slumped for a third day after the waiver of the Jones Act allowed cargoes to be delivered from the Gulf Coast and as tanker...

By LT Stephanie Young, Coast Guard Compass Blog As Hurricane Sandy approached land, the HMS Bounty and 16 sailors aboard were in dire need of help. More than 90 miles off the...

HMS Bounty (image via the Bounty Facebook page) @ Press-time Update New York Times: Evoking 18th-Century Drama, a Tragedy on the Bounty Christian Science Monitor: Coast Guard concludes HMS Bounty...

Over the past few days it was unclear whether or not the US Navy would be officially tasked to provide disaster relief to New York and New Jersey.  It seems...

(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama and the governors of New York and New Jersey took steps to ease the misery of motorists waiting in miles-long lines for gasoline after Hurricane Sandy....

(Bloomberg) — Tankers able to deliver almost 215,000 metric tons of gasoline are waiting outside New York Harbor to unload their cargoes after the worst Atlantic Coast storm in history...

VIA NOAA COAST SURVEY NOAA Office of Coast Survey navigation response teams and other survey assets continue to survey in the Port of New York / New Jersey, checking for underwater debris...

The American Maritime Partnership, representing more than 40,000 Jones Act vessels, issued a statement late Thursday regarding the delivery of petroleum and other cargoes to areas hit by Hurricane Sandy...

Captain Robin Walbridge and the crew of the Bounty made a port call in Belfast, Maine this past August and gave a very telling interview with one of the local...

Like pretty much everything else on the New Jersey shore, the Sandy Hook Pilot Station was hit quite hard by hurricane Sandy.  In fact, the first floor of their building...

(Bloomberg) — Workers contained a spill of diesel fuel caused by superstorm Sandy, blocking it from flowing into a waterway that separates New Jersey and New York, the U.S. Coast...

The United States Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area Commander, Vice Admiral Robert C. Parker and Rear Admiral Richard T. Gromlich, director of Operational Logistics, conducted an over-flight yesterday of the New...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) meteorologist may finally be able to catch up on sleep as Sandy begins to disappear but the work of other departments within the agency...