The U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Air Force, the Department of Homeland Security, and Mexican authorities, is searching the Eastern Pacific Ocean for a missing crew member from the cutter Waesche, the service announced Friday.
The U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Air Force, the Department of Homeland Security, and Mexican authorities, is searching the Eastern Pacific Ocean for a missing crew member from the cutter Waesche, the service announced Friday.
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.