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The U.S. Coast Guard was continuing their search Friday for a group of Cuban boaters whose vessel overturned near the Florida Keys, leaving two people dead and 10 others missing. Officials said they searched by air and water throughout the night and would continue to search throughout the day Friday with the assistance of the U.S. Navy, the Florida...

NBC 6’s Willard Shepard is in the Florida Keys with the latest.

Two people are dead and 10 others are missing after a boat that left Cuba overturned Thursday near the Florida Keys. NBC 6’s Willard Shepard reports

Two people are dead and 10 others are missing after their boat overturned Thursday near the Florida Keys, officials said.

President Joe Biden discussed the world at an “inflection point” with ever-changing threats like climate change in his commencement speech to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A packed boat suspected of being used in a human smuggling operation capsized and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said.

Five fishermen were rescued from a burning boat off the Cape Cod waters Friday night. The Coast Guard responded to an emergency notification from the 100-foot fishing vessel about 85 miles east of Cape Cod around 5p.m. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, rescue crews arrived on scene to find the bow and wheelhouse of the vessel engulfed in...

The search for survivors from a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico has closed and attention now turns to comforting the loved ones of the five known dead and eight missing, a grim hunt for bodies and a painstaking investigation that could take up to two years.

Divers searching the site of a capsized lift boat off Louisiana’s coast have recovered two more unresponsive crewmembers

Officials from the United States Coast Guard are searching for a boater who went missing Wednesday out of Pompano Beach. The USGC said 51-year-old Dylan Scott Wooldridge was reported overdue after leaving Alsdorf Park on a 21-foot vessel. Officials did not say if Wooldridge had an intended destination before departing. Anyone with information is asked to call 305-535-4300

The Norwegian Rescue Coordination Center airlifted the 12-member crew of a cargo ship after they were caught in an extreme storm. Authorities are battling 49-foot waves to try to stabilize the ship and prevent an oil spill in the North Sea.

An on-board fire Tuesday night disabled the vessel amidst 50 mph winds and 30-foot waves south of Nova Scotia.

Three Cubans who capsized and survived 33 days drinking coconut water and eating shellfish and rats on a deserted rocky islet south of Florida are now in U.S. immigration custody

The Coast Guard rescued three Cuban national who say they lived off of conches for 33 days on an island near the Bahamas. NBC 6’s Laura Rodriguez reports

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for an overdue vessel carrying about 20 passengers, according to a news release. The blue-and-white vessel never made it to its destination in Lake Worth, Fla. after departing from Bimini, Bahamas, the news release said. The Coast Guard and partner agencies searched 17,000 square miles, for roughly 84 hours. No pictures or…

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Bahamian military continued the search for a vessel with at least eight passengers on board that never made it to its destination in Florida. The 29-foot Mako Cuddy Cabin vessel departed Freeport, Grand Bahama, on Monday with at least 8-10 passengers on board, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force said in a statement Thursday....

The United States Coast Guard pulled into Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with $400 million worth of cocaine and marijuana. The drugs were confiscated in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Crew members from the Coast Guard Station in Fort Lauderdale released more than 200 sea turtles into the ocean last week. The turtles, which included Green, Loggerhead and Hawksbill species, had been rescued during nesting season and treated at various hospitals along Florida’s east coast. “Since the pandemic, we’ve had a hard time finding volunteers to assist us with...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday evening for four missing fishermen whose boat, the Emmy Rose, sank a day earlier off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts. In a tweet Tuesday morning, the Coast Guard said crews had searched throughout the night for the fishermen, who are all believed to be from Maine. The 82-foot boat’s home port...

Authorities have identified the two service members who were killed when their plane crashed in a residential Alabama neighborhood.