Coast Guard

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban state media reported.

The U.S. Coast Guard interdicted a cabin cruiser with 98 people on board earlier this week 20 miles east of Boca Raton officials said. Coast Guard Cutter Dependable’s crew transferred 96 Haitians, one Ugandan, and one Bahamian to Bahamian authorities on Saturday. An Air Station Miami H-65 helicopter aircrew alerted Sector Miami watchstanders, of the overloaded 40-foot cabin cruiser Power…

A group of boaters had to be rescued by members of the Coast Guard Sunday after their boat sank offshore in Empire, Louisiana.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Monday afternoon for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle.

Two people died and five were missing after a boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized off the coast of the Florida Keys. The Coast Guard said Friday that eight people were rescued. The agency described the boat as a “rustic vessel” that was making an illegal voyage with 15 migrant passengers. It was not immediately clear where the migrants...

Fifteen people were found in the water off the Lower Keys on Friday

The Coast Guard has intercepted close to 4,000 Cubans at sea since October 2021. NBC 6’s Heather Walker reports

Seven people were rescued after their personal boat was struck by lightning off of Florida’ Gulf Coast over the weekend. The United States Coast Guard said the 39-foot vessel was struck Saturday about 100 miles west of Clearwater. A helicopter from Air Station Clearwater was deployed and rescued the five women and two men. Footage released by the Coast Guard…

More than a dozen Cubans were taken into custody after they made landfall near the Florida Keys, authorities said Wednesday. The 15 Cubans were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol after landing in the Marquesas Islands, about 20 miles west of Key West. The group made landfall in a homemade vessel and was rescued by the Coast Guard after…

Family members said a father and his son died after their boat collided with another over the weekend off Key Biscayne near Nixon Beach.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday offloaded more than $99 million worth of illegal narcotics at the base on Miami Beach.

As summer kicks off, tourists, locals, and all in between will rush to enjoy the South Florida oceans and waterways by boat, but Coast Guard officials warn that this may not always be as simple as it seems. In recent years, there has been a spree of illegal charter busts in Miami Beach and surrounding areas, an occurrence that is…

A small private airplane mistakenly entered restricted airspace near President Joe Biden’s Delaware vacation home Saturday, prompting the brief evacuation of the president and first lady, the White House and the Secret Service said.

New details have been released after a woman was killed and two young children were injured when a sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the Florida Keys, authorities said. A nearby boater saw them hit the water and rushed to rescue…

NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman has the latest on the accident that killed one woman and sent two young boys to the hospital.

During the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduation on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris called on the graduating cadets to demonstrate American values in the face of adversity. “You all graduate into a world that’s going to need your leadership— one that is full of possibility and the promise of progress.

Dramatic rescue footage showed four injured sailors stranded after their boat was badly damaged in rough seas 80 miles south of Long Island, and the daring rescue to attempt to save them.

A Vermont man was arrested on charges including murder on the high seas in the 2016 death of his mother on a boat that had sparked a civil legal saga, federal prosecutors announced. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday on an eight-count indictment, according to officials at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. The document also charges...

Coast guard officials searched the office of a Japanese tour boat operator as part of a criminal investigation into suspicions that professional negligence caused the sinking of a vessel carrying 26 people in a national park last month.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued nine people from the water after their pontoon overturned off Key West on Saturday afternoon. Officials said a good Samaritan notified Coast Guard Sector Key West watchstanders of the overturned pontoon near Boca Chica Channel. A report from the USCG says nine people were rescued without lifejackets on and taken ashore to Boca...