Coast Guard

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.

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a 42-year-old diver who went missing

Coast Guard crews began to offload over 28,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana Thursday morning at a South Florida port. Officials say the drugs, worth more than $228 million in street value, were offloaded at Port Everglades after the cutter Hamilton arrived before 8 a.m. The drugs were captured during several interdictions in both the Caribbean Sea and the eastern…

NBC 6’s Julia Bagg has the latest with officials from the Coast Guard praising the work in taking over two dozen people into custody as a result.

Words of encouragement are coming in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic from a South Florida man who is lucky to be alive. Rolland Silva survived a cargo plane crash in the Atlantic last year and has been on a 15 month journey to fly again. He believes his experience can inspire others trying to make it through this global…

Nearly $408 million worth of marijuana and cocaine was offloaded Tuesday morning at a South Florida port. Coast Guard officials say the nearly 30,000 pounds of drugs – 23,000 pounds of cocaine and just under 7,000 pounds of marijuana – were seized from drug smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico and both Central and South America. “Working along side…

The U.S. Coast Guard says one person was injured when two boats collided near Star Island off Miami Beach

The U.S. Coast Guard is tapping into cellphone location data to quickly locate distressed boaters.

The U.S. Coast Guard has directed cruise ships to prepare to treat any sick passengers and crew on board while being sequestered “indefinitely” offshore during the coronavirus pandemic

The U.S. Coast Guard has directed all cruise ships to prepare to treat any sick passengers and crew on board while being sequestered “indefinitely” offshore during the coronavirus pandemic. NBC 6’s Amanda Plasencia reports.

Passengers from an ill-fated South American cruise are eager to disembark once they reach South Florida, but Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state’s health care resources are already stretched too thin to take on another ship’s coronavirus caseload. NBC 6’s Amanda Plasencia reports.