DECEMBER 24, 2025 – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC 618) returned to its home port of Port Angeles Sunday, concluding a 60-day counternarcotics deployment to the Eastern Pacific Ocean in support of Operation Pacific Viper. The Active's crew of 75 Coast Guard men and women patrolled 10,000 nautical miles and interdicted two suspected drug-smuggling vessels, seizing … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 23, 2025 – The Coast Guard is scheduled to suspend the search for two missing boaters at sunset, Monday, pending the development of new information. Missing are 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier. Coast Guard and partner agency crews searched by air and sea covering approximately 6,700 square miles, about the size of the state of … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 18, 2025 — A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued two boaters, Wednesday, after their 30-foot sailing vessel became disabled approximately 40 miles west of Tarpon Springs. The boaters were in stable condition and safely transferred to Air Station Clearwater. The aircrew located the boaters on their de-masted sailing vessel in 4 … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 16, 2025 — A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued a boater after their commercial fishing vessel caught fire approximately 100 miles west of Clearwater, Sunday. The boater was in stable condition and did not require medical attention. The aircrew located the boater in a life raft near the burning vessel in 2 to 4-foot seas and … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 16, 2025 — The crew of USCGC Active (WMEC 618) offloaded approximately 27,551 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated value of $203.9 million, in San Diego, Monday. This offload resulted from three separate interdictions of suspected drug-smuggling vessels in international waters off the coasts of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Two of the three … [Read more...]