Mariners lit an emergency beacon that helped the US Coast Guard find them about 140 miles west of Guam.

After Adm. Kevin Lunday took over as acting commandant of the Coast Guard, the service’s ships were immediately surged to southern Florida and other areas of the country to deter maritime migration. Many of the Coast Guard’s cutters are approaching 50 years old.

The search for two missing mariners near the Northern Mariana Islands entered its second day Wednesday, with efforts focused west of Saipan, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard’s plan calls for removing 350 of the 4,700 navigational buoys in waters from New York to the Canadian border. Nearly every commercial and recreational boat has electronic navigation, allowing officials to rethink how many buoys need to be in the water.

The former cadet in the complaint filed Tuesday, referred to as “Jane Doe 30,” alleges she was sexually assaulted by a classmate at the academy and later was repeatedly tormented, causing her emotional distress that forced her to withdraw from the school.

A search was underway early Monday after a suspected smuggling boat capsized off Del Mar, killing three people.

The Coast Guard said that the unified command had more than 180 responders involved in the mitigation effort as of Thursday morning, including six MARCO skimmers and six drum skimmers.

Drug busts by a multinational Middle East task force responsible for maritime security have slowed in recent years, according to the current commander of the Bahrain-based coalition.

The crew of USCGC Kimball has offloaded nearly 20,000 pounds of cocaine it seized during a deployment in the Eastern Pacific as the U.S. ramps up drug war operations. The drugs, worth an estimated $214.3 million, were delivered to authorities in San Diego on April 24.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its weeklong search for a missing boater near Guam, while a separate effort to find a U.S. Navy sailor continue.