Coast Guard

A close call off the Jersey Shore over the weekend had a happy ending thanks to the quick work of a Coast Guard team. Four people and a dog were on board a 30-foot recreational boat Sunday in Barnegat Bay when the vessel started taking on water, officials said. The group’s boat capsized mere moments after a crew from...

The U.S. Coast Guard apologized Friday for not taking “appropriate action” years ago when it failed to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service’s Connecticut academy. The service also acknowledged it did not widely disclose its six-year internal investigation into dozens of cases from 1988 to 2006. Two U.S. senators on Friday said in a...

The Mexican Navy, with help from the U.S. Coast Guard, are searching for three American sailors who were last heard from on April 4 traveling near Mazatlán, Mexico, to San Diego.

A group of boaters had to be rescued by members of the Coast Guard Sunday after their boat sank offshore in Empire, Louisiana.

The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson ferries were evacuated Tuesday afternoon after receiving a possible bomb threat. The U.S. Coast Guard said they responded to Port Jefferson, New York, for a report of a possible bomb at around 2 p.m. Police said the threat was received via 911 and out of an abundance of caution, both ferries that were docked in…

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Monday afternoon for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle.

A family was forced into the water after the boat they were on caught fire and sank. The mother and father were rushed to the hospital, while some of the children also received medical attention. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

An explosion sunk a boat off Kings Point on Long Island’s north shore and sent a family of six to the hospital, local officials said. The parents and a 5-year-old girl were tossed by the fiery blast from the 22-foot-long vessel, the Great Neck Fire Department chief said, as cellphone video showed the thick black smoke spreading across the...

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused an explosion on a boat carrying a family of five Friday afternoon.

A small private airplane mistakenly entered restricted airspace near President Joe Biden’s Delaware vacation home Saturday, prompting the brief evacuation of the president and first lady, the White House and the Secret Service said.

New details have been released after a woman was killed and two young children were injured when a sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the Florida Keys, authorities said. A nearby boater saw them hit the water and rushed to rescue…

During the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduation on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris called on the graduating cadets to demonstrate American values in the face of adversity. “You all graduate into a world that’s going to need your leadership— one that is full of possibility and the promise of progress.

Hear from the Coast Guard crew members who rescued the four sailors from a damaged boat that left them stranded 80 miles south of Long Island. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Dramatic rescue footage showed four injured sailors stranded after their boat was badly damaged in rough seas 80 miles south of Long Island, and the daring rescue to attempt to save them.

A Vermont man was arrested on charges including murder on the high seas in the 2016 death of his mother on a boat that had sparked a civil legal saga, federal prosecutors announced. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday on an eight-count indictment, according to officials at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. The document also charges...

Coast guard officials searched the office of a Japanese tour boat operator as part of a criminal investigation into suspicions that professional negligence caused the sinking of a vessel carrying 26 people in a national park last month.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for three children who went missing in the Mississippi River near New Orleans’ Crescent City Connection bridge Saturday

The United States Coast Guard has confiscated 1,000 kilograms of cocaine off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Life jackets washed ashore off Cape May’s Wildwood Crest Tuesday morning, prompting a U.S. Coast Guard search for a possible boat or boaters in distress, authorities say. A sunken vessel was eventually found. No one was inside the boat, New Jersey State Police said. The owner was located, no injuries were reported and anyone connected to the vessel has...

The agency said the drugs — 11,300 pounds of cocaine and 4,076 pounds of marijuana seized in eight interdictions — are worth about $233 million on the black market.