The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to beef up its presence in the Pacific with an 11th vessel for the Hawaii-based District 14 region.

A 2021 Coast Guard report about the Willapa Bay bar noted the “sea can break into dangerous surf at any time in this area,” and cautioned that mariners should only attempt the crossing “if you are intimately familiar with the entrance.”

The agency said Tuesday it had responded to the report of a makeshift, steel-hulled craft apparently disabled in heavy seas about 6 miles off the coast after a civilian boater reporting seeing people in the water.

The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball recently returned to its home port in Honolulu following a 42-day, 10, 000-nautical-mile Western Pacific patrol that took it all the way to the port city of Kagoshima, Japan.

As maritime smuggling attempts along Southern California’s coastline have surged in recent years, so too have mishaps and deaths. Authorities and experts say a number of forces have influenced both the rise in such incidents and the attention they have received.

Cooperstown diverted course and deployed its search and rescue swimmer to recover the stranded person, who was then transferred to U.S. Coast Guard Station Charleston.

All four of the U.S. military’s four-star female officers gathered in public for the first time to talk about the sexism that they have experienced in the service and how far women still must go before they’re fully integrated members of the armed forces.

The body of a dead man was found at the Port of Los Angeles on Monday. It was not immediately clear how long the deceased had been in the water when he was spotted by the Coast Guard.

The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, which responds to marine mammal strandings and rescues in New York, received a report from the United States Coast Guard of “an unidentified whale carcass” just south of the Ambrose Channel.

The Coast Guard dispatched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter. A crew member was lowered down to the beach and helped hoist the man back up to the aircraft.

A group of Cuban migrants landed at the Dry Tortugas National Park Thursday, on the same morning Gov. Ron DeSantis blamed the federal government for the border crisis and announced legislation cracking down on illegal immigration.

The Coast Guard dispatched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station New Orleans and an HC-144 Ocean Sentry plane from Air Station Corpus Christi.

The Navy and Coast Guard have finished their search off the South Carolina coast for pieces of wreckage from the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down two weeks ago, officials said Friday.

Four U.S. citizens died and more were injured during Antarctic cruises late last year, leading the U.S. Coast Guard to investigate four incidents that occurred in a span of less than three weeks.

Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck told reporters at the Pentagon that the size of the debris field is estimated to be 1,500 meters by 1,500 meters in about 50 feet of water off the South Carolina coast.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a multiday search for a scuba diver who disappeared Thursday morning off Guam’s western coast.

A 35-year-old scuba diver went missing Thursday while apparently working off the west coast of Guam, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The bust was the first in 2023 for Combined Maritime Forces, a 38-member multinational task force focused on countering smuggling, piracy and other illegal operations.

The Coast Guard will hear public testimony beginning this week as part of its investigation of the fire that decimated the cruise ship Spirit of Norfolk at Naval Station Norfolk last summer.