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OceanGate, the maritime exploration company behind the submersible Titan, which went missing with five people aboard during a trip to the wreckage of the Titanic, fired its director of marine operations after he demanded safety tests of the vehicle before it took passengers to the bottom of the Ocean. The company is also facing questions about other safety decisions, like the submersible lacking a safety beacon.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby defended Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch being kicked out of the service due to the vaccine mandate

Republicans slammed President Joe Biden for praising a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who is facing discharge from the military because of Biden’s own vaccine mandate for the armed forces.

Biden thanked a Coast Guard member who is facing discharge over Biden’s vaccine mandate for saving people’s lives during Hurricane Ian.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday suggested that a recent increase in Chinese naval activity near waters surrounding the Japanese archipelago will soon “become routine,” as Beijing ramps up its militaristic ambitions across the greater Pacific Ocean.

President Joe Biden warned the Coast Guard Wednesday to prepare themselves for more threats from global warming and the melting Arctic.

Libyan authorities intercepted 30,990 migrants heading for Europe in 2021 according to UN statistics, a trebling of the year prior.

On Monday’s broadcast of ABC’s “GMA3,” U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz said there has been a recent increase in migration at sea to the U.S. from Haiti, and that he thinks Haitians “see some potential signals that make

The U.S. Coast Guard announced this week that it had deported 29 Cuban nationals found attempting to reach Florida by sea, the independent Cuban outlet 14 y Medio reported Tuesday.

Cyprus has accused the Turkish coastguard of firing warning shots at a Cypriot police vessel north of Tylliria as it was on patrol for illegal migrants.

President Joe Biden, who turned 78 in November, was referring to a quote from Chairman Mao, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, who said that “women hold up half the sky.”

Two Ukrainian men have been charged by Greek authorities after being caught trying to ferry 53 migrants from Turkey to the Greek island of Rhodes aboard a large boat.

The Greek Shipowners’ Association has donated ten new Rafnar maritime boats to the Greek coastguard to help the country stop illegal immigration to the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

Politician and journalist Nigel Farage has said he witnessed illegal aliens being shepherded to British territorial waters “with the active participation of the French Navy” who coordinated with UK Border Force in offloading migrants into British territory.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says rescuers have drilled through the hull of an overturned cargo ship and made contact with four missing crew members stuck inside.

An Italian man fell asleep on an inflatable air mattress in the sea off the coast of Calabria and floated some 15 miles across the Strait of Messina to Sicily, where he was eventually discovered by the Coast Guard.

Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright put the media on blast Thursday for covering the Jussie Smollett saga more than an alleged white nationalist terror plot planned by a Coast Guard lieutenant.

Vice President Mike Pence assured DHS and Coast Guard personnel in Virginia Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration will secure the border “one way or another.”

The president traveled to Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet in Florida, thanking the members for all they had done to assist victims in the recent hurricanes.

“Right now, everybody is saying what a great job we are doing with Hurricane Florence – and they are 100% correct,” he wrote on Twitter. “But don’t be fooled, at some point in the near future the Democrats will start ranting…”

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says at least 328 people have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea despite strong currents in the Strait of Gibraltar area, the closest stretch of water separating Europe from North Africa.

President Donald Trump honored each branch of the United States military at a White House Fourth of July Independence Day picnic, specifically praising one member representing each branch – even making mention of the proposed “Space Force.”

“These brave men and women patrol the waterways near Palm Beach and Mar-a-Lago every day,” Hogan Gidley, the deputy White House press secretary said in a statement to the media. “The president wanted to thank these service members personally for their service to this nation.”

“Everyone is talking about the progress you’ve made,” Trump said in a video conference call from his Mar-a-lago club in Florida, noting their excellent progress in just three to four months.

President Donald Trump began Thanksgiving by celebrating the strong economy and promising his followers to build the long-promised wall on the southern border.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to San Diego, California, Wednesday to tout the record-breaking amount of drugs seized in Fiscal Year 2017.

Saturday during his visit to Houston surveilling the damage from Hurricane Harvey, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. Coast Guard for its rescue efforts during the storm. However, he also took a shot at the media as well. “I hear

Coastguard rescue teams and emergency response units including a full decontamination unit were deployed to the East Sussex coast Sunday evening after a “haze” in the air caused injuries.

President Donald Trump defied media coverage of his presidency, vowing to keep fighting for the people who elected him president. “Look at the way I’ve been treated lately especially by the media,” Trump said. “No politician in history, and I

President Donald J. Trump reviewed units representing all of the armed forces shortly after taking command of America’s military from former president Barack Obama on Friday.

The Navy took the last step before commissioning, when it took possession of USS Gabrielle Giffords, named for the former congresswoman, and the ninth hull of the $34 billion Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, a class of warships with so little firepower that to survive, they must outrun the enemy.

Nearly 100 Cuban refugees reached the United States in the past week, with 51 refugees landing in the Florida Keys on Sunday alone. With the number of Cubans risking their lives on the high seas booming since President Barack Obama “normalized” relations with Cuba in 2014, officials fear a greater increase following the death of Fidel Castro.

Seventeen suspected illegal aliens aboard a panga boat sent a distress signal off the coast of San Diego on Tuesday morning that led the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to apprehend the group.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatened to levy charges against the United States this week for allegedly running spy missions in Venezuelan skies.

Santa Monica and Marina del Rey residents were awakened in the middle of the night Tuesday by a raucous fireworks show thrown by Khloe Kardashian in honor of her boyfriend James Harden’s birthday party – and it’s not clear that the reality TV starlet secured the proper permits, or even needed any, for the bash.

The U.S Coast Guard announced this week that they have seized more cocaine on the Pacific high seas in the past ten months than in the past three years combined, a total of 32 metric tons of cocaine.