Cocaine smugglers have taken to use semi-submersible vessels attempting to avoid detection. The below photo is from a recent interdiction.
U.S. Coast Guard photo.
New criminal case from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving the constitutionality of the semi-submersible drug trafficking statute, 18 U.S.C. 2285. The case is United States v. Campaz-Guerrero.
The ten-year anniversary of 9/11 prompted a vivid documentary about the boatlift of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers off Manhattan following the World Trade Center attacks.
Alternative, less choppy video, here.
On the Coast Guard’s efforts, and the herculean response of the maritime community in New York, the Commandant of the U.S. Coast
In the days before the EAGLE, the cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy conducted training cruises on cutters in the fleet.
This is a great video from the Good Ole Days…..
The Coast Guard published a Programmatice Environmental Assessment for the Nationwide Use of High Frequency and Ultra High Frequency SONAR. The publication notice is here. Comments can be posted at www.regulations.gov. The Environmental Assessment is here. The State of Hawaii is conducting a consistency determination per the Coastal Zone Management Act, see
Checking my feeds and found a blast from the past. Not sure who on earth would have had this video.
Summer 1989. The Coast Guard's training ship, Barque Eagle, paid a first-ever port call to the city of Leningrad. On the eve of the end of the Cold War, such port calls by military ships
The L.A. Times is reporting the death of an aviation pioneer in the Coast Guard, retired Captain Bobby Wilks, USCG.
While the news reports recount some of his more daring rescues, he is also notable for his status as the first African-American officer to make the rank of Captain, the first African-American Coast Guard aviator and
Last September, a Coast Guard helicopter crashed during a training mission near the Honolulu airport. Tragically, four Coast Guardsmen were killed. They were: Captain Thomas Nelson (he was posthumously promoted), Lt. Commander Andrew Wischmeier, Aviation Survival Technician First Class David Skimin and Aviation Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Joshua Nichols. Captain Nelson was four years ahead of
GAO just issued a new report on Deepwater.