When discovered, human smugglers can do ill-advised things. This includes an incident off California where a smuggler rammed his vessel into a Coast Guard boat.
A helicopter crashed in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, just a few miles offshore of southeastern Louisiana. Four people on board the aircraft have yet to be found.
The U.S. Coast Guard has recently rescued 27 individuals from the rocky cliffs of an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
U.S. Coast Guard has offloaded on Thursday more than 30 metric tons of cocaine and marijuana with an estimated cost of over $1 billion. The narcotics were seized at sea during months-long deployment off the coast of South America.
In response to the U.S. government's decision to ban Mexican fishing vessels from entering U.S. ports due to poaching, Mexico on Tuesday defended its fishermen.
The United States Coast Guard announced a rescue operation after 18 people snowmobiling in Lake Erie in Ohio were trapped on a slab of ice that broke off on the frozen lake.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it had recovered a body during a search for 39 people whose boat capsized off Florida's Atlantic coast over the weekend.
After spending six days sailing from Haiti in hopes of reaching the U.S., 104 Haitian migrants were intercepted by the Coast Guard in Florida waters on Sunday.
After working with their counterparts in Panama and the United States, Colombian authorities seized 5.4 tonnes of cocaine worth $185 million, Colombia's Navy stated Wednesday.
After the interdiction of a go-fast vessel near Puerto Rico, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos offloaded close to $15 million worth of seized cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan on July 12 and transferred custody of two male smugglers.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday rescued nearly three dozen individuals whose boat was sinking off the coast of Florida. The 33 individuals are believed to be Cuban migrants.