MAY 5, 2026 – A Coast Guard law enforcement detachment deployed on the USS Billings stopped a suspected drug smuggling vessel, Thursday, approximately 8 miles off Mole Saint-Nicolas, Haiti. With the permission of the Haitian government, the boarding team’s investigation resulted in approximately 3,200 pounds of marijuana being found, worth approximately $3.8 million, and one … [Read more...]

APRIL 30, 2026 - The wreckage of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa has been located and confirmed by the British technical-diving team Gasperados. The site lies approximately 50 miles off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom, at a depth exceeding 300 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Tampa was lost in 1918 during World War I after being torpedoed by a German submarine in the Bristol … [Read more...]

APRIL 28, 2026  — The U.S. Coast Guard and partners are searching for a fishing vessel crewman in the water over 1,200 miles offshore Hawaii Monday. Missing is a 59-year-old man, approximately 5 feet, 7 inches tall, wearing light-colored pants and a dark short-sleeved shirt. Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu watchstanders received a report from the Korea Mission … [Read more...]

APRIL 28, 2026 – The Coast Guard rescued two hikers who were stranded on Makushin Volcano in Unalaska, Alaska, Sunday. At approximately 8:30 a.m., watchstanders at the Coast Guard Arctic District command center in Juneau received a request from the Alaska State Troopers to assist with two hikers stranded at approximately 2,000 feet of elevation on Makushin Volcano. One of … [Read more...]

APRIL 27, 2026 — A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Facility Newport rescued an injured 25-year-old man who was stranded on a cliffside at Rocky Creek State Scenic Viewpoint near Depoe Bay, Oregon, Saturday morning. At approximately 10:00 A.M. watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Columbia River received a request for assistance from the Willamette Valley … [Read more...]