The U.S. Coast Guard says crews have found two people unresponsive after a boat capsized off the Oregon Coast near Depoe Bay.

Coast Guard divers jumped off the pier at Coast Guard Base Honolulu on Wednesday wearing nearly 32-pound steel “hard hats” connected to air lines in training dives to prepare for an annual inspection next week.

The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Columbia River to all vessel traffic east of Portland, Oregon, because of wildfire activity in the Columbia River Gorge.

The way the Coast Guard dispatched rescue teams by boat, high-water vehicle and helicopter was far from conventional. Rear Adm. Paul Thomas said it's too early to tell what the service may change after studying the Hurricane Harvey response, but having more people monitor social media accounts could be part of it.

Coast Guard Ensign Ryan Carpenter peered north through a front window of this 420-foot long ship, directing its bright-red hull through jagged chunks of ice hundreds of miles north of Alaska.

In late July, the Aqua-Guard Triton RotoX dipped into the icy Beaufort Sea. The goal was to test whether the prototype could clean up an oil spill in the Arctic.

The ice that caked the Polar Sea came from heavy freezing spray kicked up from turbulent water on a chilly day. Photographs show that the bow of his boat resembled the inside of a blast freezer.

The selection process got underway Monday for jurors who will decide the fate of Adrian Loya, the Virginia man charged in an elaborately staged attack in Bourne that left a fellow Coast Guard petty officer dead and her wife and a responding police officer seriously injured.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it's issuing a notice of violation to a person who jumped off of a Casco Bay Lines ferry in the Fore River last month.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott activated the entire Texas National Guard on Monday, bringing the number of deployed Guardsmen to 12,000 as floodwaters in the Houston area continue to rise and more people evacuate growing flood zones.

Rising floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground Sunday in Houston, overwhelming rescuers who fielded countless desperate calls for help.

An oil boom is a temporary floating barrier deployed to prevent the spread of contaminants in water, including oil, in the event that a ship is damaged or has run aground.

After 11 years and some big changes, the Coast Guard is diving in the Arctic again, with an assist from the Navy.

After 11 years and some big changes, the Coast Guard is diving in the Arctic again, with an assist from the Navy. Dive capabilities were recently re-established aboard the Seattle-based Healy.

Buoy, a spunky 15-year-old red Labrador retriever, was gifted to the Destin U.S. Coast Guard Station in 2002. At just 6 weeks old, Buoy quickly became the station's beloved mascot.

President Donald Trump has proposed cutting that branch of service's budget by $1.3 billion, or 12 percent, which many say could affect the Coast Guard's ability to complete their mission of protecting the public, the environment and economic interests in ports and waterways.

The pilot, assigned to Fighter Squadron Composite 111, ejected about 20 nautical miles southeast of Naval Air Station Key West about 12:40 p.m. and was rescued by a Coast Guard crew a short time later.

The Destination went down amid tough winter weather that included snow, wind gusts of more than 39 mph and seas of more than 12 feet, according to information presented Monday as the Coast Guard began hearings into the crab-boat sinking that killed six crew members.

The Destination sits on the bottom of the Bering Sea, listing heavily to its port side and still carrying roughly a third of the steel-framed pots the six-man crew planned to use in a winter crab harvest off Alaska.

David Phung was amazed when he saw the viral video of him rescuing a woman and her dog from a sinking car during historic flooding in Louisiana last summer. "It was all adrenaline and reaction. Seconds seemed like minutes," Phung recalled Friday.

Newburyport has been designated a Coast Guard City, and on Thursday waves of curious visitors boarded service vessels at the Station Merrimack River open house to learn more about the equipment and technique of sea rescue that starts on local docks.

Retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Rodney Lee Buentello died June 8, 2016 after saving two teenagers from the Medina River in Bandera, Texas.

The head of the Coast Guard said Tuesday he would not "break faith" with transgender troops under his command, despite President Donald Trump's recent announcement that he was going to ban the small pool of service members from serving.

A Coast Guard proposal to establish official sites for marine traffic to anchor in area waters has drawn the attention of dozens of Samish Island residents.

As the Trump administration threatened hefty budget cuts for the Coast Guard, the military service was spending more than $6.6 million protecting the president's waterfront Mar-a-Lago Club during his seven weekend trips there this spring, documents show.

Recreational paddlers can use the Maryland side of the Potomac River when the president or senior administration officials visit Trump National Golf Club, amending a controversial policy that kicked boats off the river whenever the president golfed.

Rita Singh, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute, has been working with the U.S. Coast Guard to combat fake distress calls.

Since Jan. 30, adult Maine residents can legally possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and grow as many as six flowering pot plants.

The two men are alive to recount their adventure for a couple of reasons. Both are in the Coast Guard and they had told a roommate and other colleagues the coordinates of their dive and their plan to return by dark.

Cameron Espitia told investigators he had been drinking and "having a bad night" but didn't remember what happened during the ride. Coast Guard authorities confirmed Espitia is a Petty Officer First Class, assigned to Sector Puget Sound for law enforcement.

Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards delivered the USCGC Oliver Berry, the 24th fast response cutter, to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Lifeguards estimate 8,000 to 10,000 people attended the party and hundreds had to be rescued from the water. A 19-year-old woman was in critical condition and 10 people were in serious condition after intoxication-related injuries.

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Admiral Paul Zukunft has been the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard since May 30, 2014. In a recent interview, Zukunft discussed the times that have tested his leadership skills, the lessons he has learned during 40 years of service and his 4:30 a.m. exercise routine.

While his decision may seem curious to some, Andrew Grady said a demotion — and a switch in his branch of service – was the best way to keep his family together.

The Coast Guard announced last month its willingness to negotiate a possible sale of the vacant military housing near Concord Naval Weapons Station to Concord, a city official said.

Clay Williams, director of the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport, said the pilot called the airport from the air, saying there was smoke coming from the cockpit.

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer was awarded the distinguished Air Medal Monday for heroic action in the helicopter rescue of a 28-year-old man who had fallen 50 feet while free climbing in Maine last fall.

The U.S. Coast Guard has given the all-clear after investigating a potential threat at the Port of Charleston on Thursday morning.

A hundred years ago in a blinding fog, a U.S. Coast Guard ship was sailing off the coast of Southern California when it smashed into a passenger steamship. The USCGC McCulloch sank within 35 minutes and lingered on the ocean floor undisturbed by people for a century.

A World War II-era tugboat stuck for 19 years in the Intracoastal Waterway near Ormond-by-the-Sea in Florida has been removed, towed to Jacksonville on Wednesday.

The Valiant’s crew seized five drug-laden vessels with almost 5 tons of cocaine during its deployment in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off Central and South America as part of a Joint Interagency Task Force South partnership.

A Virginia Beach man was rescued by the Coast Guard Tuesday morning after his sailboat started sinking in stormy weather off Tangier Island.

A convicted human smuggler from Mexico must serve nearly seven years in a U.S. prison over the 2015 death of an immigrant struck by a Coast Guard boat as she tried to reach Texas.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued two kayakers who were near an island off the coast of southern Alaska and became separated as the weather deteriorated.

Relaunching the now-idle boat would rekindle a connection to the region’s history and inject millions of tourist dollars and hundreds of jobs into states up and down the river, supporters said. There was just one problem: the vote exempted the vessel from a fire safety law despite fresh Coast Guard warnings.

The graduating cadets sat quietly and ramrod straight for most of Wednesday's 136th U.S. Coast Guard Academy's graduation ceremony as crowds cheered, whistled and applauded.

President Donald Trump pledged to build icebreaker ships that the Coast Guard has long sought to navigate polar waterways, but offered no details about how they will be funded or whether his vision differs fundamentally from a plan established during the Obama administration.

The Coast Guard says no Cuban migrants were intercepted at sea trying to reach the U.S. during April, the first time in seven years that has happened.

The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard issued a stark warning on Wednesday that Russia was leagues ahead of Washington in the Arctic. And while the warming Arctic opens up, the United States could be caught flat-footed while other geopolitical rivals swiftly step in.

Off the coast of a Connecticut seaport, the Coast Guard is developing and testing new technology that could help record and mark the location of oil spills all across the oceans.

The U.S. Coast Guard is expanding its operations along Oregon's northern coast by selecting Astoria as the new home for two fast response cutters.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew based in Astoria returned after a 2.5-month deployment that yielded the seizure of $11 million in cocaine and marijuana, officials said.

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President Trump’s pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border has complicated a spending bill needed to avoid a government shutdown — and ultimately could shift funding away from one of the Coast Guard’s most strategic stations in the California Bay Area.

Authorities say two crew members are dead after an explosion on a ship in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Mohawk returned home to Key West Saturday, following a three-month counter-drug patrol in the Pacific Ocean.

President Donald Trump will deliver the commencement address to graduates of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy next month.

The U.S. Coast Guard is focusing its recruiting efforts on Maui's water polo players, surfers and others who spend much of their time in the water.

The U.S. Coast Guard has received no extra funding to cover the additional costs of protecting President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort during his frequent trips to the Florida estate, the service's top official said Wednesday.

Ray Evans, Douglas Munro’s shipmate, said Munro’s last words were “Did they get off (the beach)?” The official Navy account said that when told the Marines made it, Munro died with a smile on his face.

A 32-year-old man was seen jumping from a cabin balcony off the cruise ship Carnival Liberty early Friday when the vessel was about 10 miles northwest of the Berry Islands, in the Bahamas, officials said.

The Coast Guard's top officer said Monday that his service was "left behind" in an effort by the Trump administration to improve the Armed Forces, and still needs dozens of new ships and thousands more servicemembers.

Coast Guard Airman Gregory Jacquet will be honored in May in Washington as the Coast Guard's active-duty enlisted person of the year. He was chosen from among 32,000 enlisted members.

President Donald Trump's administration proposed to cut the Coast Guard's $9.1 billion budget by 14 percent and use the funds to boost support for immigration enforcement, according to news reports and congressional sources.

Nearly 30 passengers are suing Spirit Cruises LLC after a company ship crashed into a Fells Point pier last August during a midnight party outing. Coast Guard investigators said the captain dozed off before the 119-foot vessel veered off course and splintered a floating pier at Henderson's Wharf Marina.

The senators warned this is not the time to "kick the can down the road" on the Coast Guard's aging fleet. The budget proposal, not yet public, would reportedly also cut the budgets of FEMA, which provides disaster relief, and the TSA by about 11 percent each.

Ingalls Shipbuilding could benefit from the president's push for a 350-ship fleet. Besides Coast Guard cutters, the Gulf Coast shipyard builds guided-missile destroyers, "big-deck" amphibious assault ships and smaller, versatile amphibs that are prized by the Marine Corps.

The Coast Guard will conduct a Marine Board of Investigation — the highest level of agency inquiry — into the Feb. 11 loss of the crab boat Destination and six crew members.

The award recognizes San Diego’s commitment to erecting monuments to the maritime service, organizing civic celebrations and helping to boost the morale, welfare and recreational opportunities for Coast Guard personnel in the region.

On March 29, 2012, the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a strange-looking vessel off the Honduran Caribbean coast. When the vessel stopped, Coast Guard personnel realized it was a makeshift semi-submersible built to carry at least 3 tons of cocaine.

The final Coast Guard hearing into the El Faro sinking concluded Friday with emotional statements and vows from investigators to find answers to the tragedy that claimed 33 lives and disrupted the maritime industry.

Seaman recruit Aaron Redd collapsed during a fitness assessment at Training Center Cape May, New Jersey on July 1 and died July 7th.

Traverse City visitors will see a surprise when they look to the skies next summer.

Five Coast Guard cutters are charged with marking navigation channels on major rivers from roughly the St. Louis area north to the Twin Cities of Minnesota, and between Omaha, Neb., and near Chicago.

A driver got a close look at high surf in Humboldt Bay but the up-close experience led to a rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard.

It was a what-if scenario of the type that fuels Florida crime potboilers: A fisherman finds a package of drugs valued at a huge street sum, and makes a decision. In one case, he was 50 miles south of Panama City when he found between $500,000 and $650,000 worth of cocaine floating in the gulf.

An intimate crowd of self-avowed “Coasties” shared laughs with the panelists at the “Women in the U.S. Coast Guard” panel discussion held at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

Reacting to the increasing acceptance and popularity of body art, the Coast Guard has revised its tattoo policy to make it less restrictive.

The migrants crossed the Florida Straits six months ago and sought refuge on the American Shoal Lighthouse. Later, they drew attention for throwing an SOS off a Coast Guard boat. Those still on base say they feel pressured to return to home.

The captain of the Port Maryland National-Capital Region set ice condition 3 on Monday because weather conditions are favorable for the formation of ice in navigable waters.

A big snowstorm isn’t the only thing bearing down on Virginia's Atlantic coast. About 20 container ships were scheduled to call on the local port this weekend – but some of them apparently are going to have to wait. The Coast Guard said it will close the port, with some restrictions, early Saturday morning, in anticipation of the storm.

Ingalls Shipbuilding has received a $486 million fixed-price incentive contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to build a ninth national security cutter.

The Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, that helped rescue seven people during “The Perfect Storm,” has still not been cleared by federal environment officials to be sunk off the New Jersey coast.

Master Chief Jonathan Towne is dusting off his bearskin hat for the last time.

The group’s financial crisis has occurred in one of the world’s largest concentrations of military might, with more than $23.3 billion flowing through San Diego County last year for troops, veterans and defense projects.

The captain of the Spirit of Baltimore had worked three days on his own boat and was feeling tired late on the August night when he guided the 119-foot ship on a midnight party cruise through the Inner Harbor, Coast Guard investigators said. At around 2 a.m., with 400 passengers aboard, the captain dozed off.

Cassius Samson, 52, and Rustico Ignacio, 66, both of the Philippines, were sentenced for obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard inspection that took place in July 2015 aboard the cargo ship Ocean Hope at the Port of Wilmington.

A Coast Guard hearing is beginning into the sinking of the fishing vessel Alaska Juris.

The National Transportation Safety Board will release a 400-page transcript of conversations recorded aboard the El Faro before the cargo ship sank in a hurricane last year. The transcript will be made available Dec. 13.

Richard Winsor Ohrn, a former financial adviser who was fined $1 million for the cost of searching for him after he faked his death at sea, will not have to go to prison. He was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation. But , 46, won’t have to go to prison. He was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation.

A Coast Guard helicopter made an emergency landing Sunday during a rescue operation for an ailing mariner.

Following the announcement on Friday night of Fidel Castro's death, the Coast Guard is not preparing for a large-scale migration from Cuba. Instead, they're proceeding with business as usual, patrolling the Florida Straits.

Termed a "Fast Response" vessel because of its capability to reach speeds of more than 28 knots and travel 2,950 nautical miles before having to refuel, it will mostly perform search and rescue operations and fisheries law enforcement functions.

As World War II raged in 1942, Gina Becker was trying to find a way to continue her education after graduating from high school in Libby.

American businesses are doing a better job of hiring veterans, yet still struggle understanding them, according to a new report from Hiring our Heroes, a component of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

The General Services Administration, which handled the auction for the U.S. Coast Guard, accepted bids for three lighthouses this summer.