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by Stephanie Young (USCG) Today, the Coast Guard’s newest fast response cutter, Coast Guard Cutter John F. McCormick, officially entered the fleet. While

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reporting

By Lisa Ferdinando (DoD News) – As a unique instrument of national security, the U.S. Coast Guard works in a broad spectrum of areas to secure

A Unified Command has been set up in response to the Uninspected Towing Vessel Mike A. Nadicksbernd taking on water at Lock and Dam 52 on the Ohio

In his annual State Of The Coast Guard Address today USCG Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft focused on topics that are priorities to the Trump

by PA2 Diana Honings (USCG) Temporary Denial of Service 911 hoax calls plague our nation’s first responder agencies. Hospitals, police and fire departments,

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday responded to a report of a breakaway barges at the Racine Lock and Dam on the Ohio River near Huntington, West Virginia. Coast

The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday awarded five firm fixed-price contracts for heavy polar icebreaker design studies and analysis. The contracts were awarded to

The U.S. Coast Guard held a memorial service Friday in remembrance of the 23 lives lost after the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with tanker and sank

The U.S. Coast Guard and good samaritan vessels are responding to a U.S.-flagged vehicle carrier which caught fire and is now adrift approximately 130 miles

Two Greek shipping companies have been sentenced to pay corporate penalties totaling $2.7 million in yet another “magic pipe” pollution case in the

A rather complex rescue went down in the Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska a few hundred miles from Kodiak, Alaska over the weekend but luckily it appears to have

The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced two crew members of a Greek-flagged tanker on Wednesday after they were struck by a flying pressurized object off the coast of

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday kicked off its annual icebreaking operation in the Western Great Lakes after a cold arctic blast caused developing ice

Dec 18 (Reuters) – Four people were rescued from frigid waters off Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday after more than a dozen sailboats capsized during a

In today’s episode of gCaptain LIVE, Captain John Konrad discusses the NTSB/USCG hearings into the El Faro and identifies the Top Ten investigative

Today, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a transcript of the S.S. El Faro’s voyage data recorder (VDR), in addition to

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday kicked off a public hearing on its investigation into the abandoning and sinking of the fishing vessel Alaska

The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Center today issued the first U.S.C.G. Ballast Water Management System Type Approval Certificate to Norwegian

by Lauren Steenson (USCG) Modern day explorers from Arctic nations  are setting their sights north to map the seabed and establish sovereign rights to