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Dec 15, 2024 6:30 AM CST

Lost Hiker's Shelter Hid Her From Search Crews' Cameras

64-year-old found in Oregon state park on Sunday after hearing helicopters overhead

(Newser) - A hiker lost in an Oregon state park for nearly two days without proper survival gear was found safe Sunday by rescue crews. The 64-year-old woman, who was not identified, had become separated from her foraging group inside Shore Acres State Park on Friday. Aware that she did not have...

After Milton, It Was Just Him, the Sea, and His Cooler

Coast Guard rescues fisherman stranded in the Gulf

(Newser) - It was "a nightmare scenario for even the most experienced mariner," a Coast Guard official said Thursday after a fishing boat captain was rescued from the Gulf of Mexico, where he'd been clinging to a cooler. It was the man's second rescue in four days, per...

Testimony: Titan Sub Had Just Had a Malfunction

Scientific director of OceanGate says passengers were tossed around

(Newser) - Days before it imploded while headed to the Titanic wreckage last summer, the Titan submersible endured a malfunction, the company's scientific director testified Thursday. Steven Ross told a US Coast Guard panel that the experimental submersible had a platform problem that caused passengers aboard to "tumble about,"...

Final Text From Doomed Titan: 'All Good Here'

Coast Guard opens 2-week hearing on causes of submersible's implosion

(Newser) - The final message from OceanGate's doomed Titan submersible was fleetingly correct as the crew descended to the wreck of the Titanic: "All good here," read the text to the Polar Prince support ship at the surface above. That response came after a query about whether the Titan...

Navy Crew Plucks Woman, Child From Sailboat as Hurricane Nears

Small boat from guided missile destroyer picks up survivors 925 miles off Hawaii

(Newser) - A small boat crew dispatched from a Navy guided missile destroyer rescued a woman and her 7-year-old daughter from a sailboat in rough seas this week, after a man had died on the craft and distress flares were launched. The rescue by the USS William P. Lawrence occurred about 925...

We May Soon Know More About the Titanic Sub Implosion

Hearing is scheduled for September

(Newser) - The Coast Guard will hold a long-awaited public hearing in September about the deadly Titanic submersible disaster as it continues its investigation into the implosion of the vessel. The experimental Titan submersible imploded en route to the Titanic , killing all five people on board, in June 2023. The US Coast...

3 Rescued From Remote Atoll Thanks to Their 'Ingenuity'

Rescue came after US Navy aircraft spotted 'HELP' message spelled out in palm leaves on the beach

(Newser) - In a search area covering more than 100,000 square miles in the remote Pacific, the 31-acre atoll was a needle in a haystack. Still, authorities discovered the three men stranded for days on the uninhabited island thanks to their ingenuity—spelled out in palm fronds. The men in their...

Vessels Clearing Debris Have a Temporary Channel to Use

'We have to move fast, but we cannot be careless,' governor says

(Newser) - The Coast Guard has opened a temporary, alternate channel for vessels involved in the clearing of debris at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, part of a phased approach to opening the main channel leading to the vital port, officials said Monday. Crews are undertaking...

Coast Guard Was Inspecting a Port, Noticed Strange Barking

'Connie the Container Dog' was definitely an unexpected surprise

(Newser) - Keen ears on the part of a group of US Coast Guard inspectors led to the rescue last week of a dog trapped in a Texas shipping container. Bryan Wainscott, Ryan McMahon, Lucas Loe, and Jose Reyes were on the job Wednesday at the Port of Houston, randomly selecting containers...

Coast Guard Calls Off Search for Man Lost in 'Sneaker' Wave

54-year-old was swept out to sea off California coast, along with granddaughter, 5, who died

(Newser) - A little girl is dead and her grandfather remains missing after a wave swept them both out to sea near California's Half Moon Bay. The search for the two began Saturday afternoon at Martins Beach, which USA Today notes is about 30 miles south of San Francisco. The 5-year-old...

Skimmers Work to Collect 1M Gallons of Oil in Gulf

Crews try to find source of pipeline leak off Louisiana

(Newser) - A leak from an underwater pipeline released more than 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico before the flow was shut off, the Coast Guard estimated. The leak was spotted Thursday, about 19 miles offshore of the Mississippi River Delta southeast of New Orleans, Reuters reports. Main...

Cruise Line Says Video Shows Passenger Jumping From Ship

Tyler Barnett was reported missing from Carnival ship on Monday morning

(Newser) - The Coast Guard says it is searching the Gulf of Mexico for a 28-year-old Louisiana man missing from a Carnival cruise ship. Tyler Barnett was reported missing on Monday, the day after the Carnival Glory departed from New Orleans. The Coast Guard narrowed the search area after the cruise line...

Man Who Keeps Trying to 'Run' Across the Ocean Is Arrested

Is there nothing a Florida man won't do?

(Newser) - The US Coast Guard has arrested a Florida man who was attempting to "run" across the Atlantic Ocean in a large hamster wheel. Marathon runner Reza Baluchi was found about 70 nautical miles east of Georgia's Tybee Island on Aug. 26 in what officials described as a "...

Coast Guard: We Found 4 Missing Divers

Men rescued Sunday off coast of North Carolina in the 'graveyard of the Atlantic'

(Newser) - The Coast Guard has an update on four divers who went missing over the weekend off the coast of North Carolina, and it's a good one: The men have been found alive, reports CNN . An early Monday post from USCG Mid-Atlantic on X, formerly known as Twitter, noted that...

Coast Guard Lays Out Next Phase at Titanic Site

Navy calls off planned use of salvage system

(Newser) - The Coast Guard said Sunday it is leading an investigation into the loss of the Titan submersible that was carrying five people to the Titanic, to determine what caused it to implode. Capt. Jason Neubauer, chief investigator, said that the salvage operations are ongoing and that the accident site has...

Coast Guard 'Optimistic' in Hunt for Missing Sub

Search is focusing on area where Canadian aircraft detected sounds

(Newser) - The Coast Guard says a unified command team is working "tirelessly" to find the missing submersible Titan in a search of a vast area of the North Atlantic. At a briefing Wednesday afternoon, Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said Canadian planes detected underwater noises on Tuesday and again on...

Suspected Russian Spy Ship Hanging Out by Hawaii

Coast Guard has been monitoring the vessel, also spotted in the area in April, for weeks

(Newser) - The US Coast Guard has for weeks been monitoring what is believed to be a Russian spy ship off the coast of Hawaii. The USCG described what is "believed to be an intelligence gathering ship" in a Wednesday news release, which was accompanied by video footage of the vessel....

A Woman Is Leading US Military Service for First Time

Admiral Linda Fagan takes over at the Coast Guard

(Newser) - For the first time, one of the US military services is being led by a woman. Admiral Linda Fagan took control of the Coast Guard on Wednesday, reports ABC News . Fagan, who became the service's first female admiral last year, previously served as second in command, per Military.com...

Cruise Ship Passenger Goes Overboard Near Florida

43-year-old man still missing, and Carnival says he jumped

(Newser) - A passenger on a Carnival Cruise Lines ship is feared dead after going overboard near Florida. The Coast Guard has been searching for the 43-year-old man, who the cruise line says jumped from the ship, since about 12:30am Saturday, reports Florida Today . The passenger on Carnival's Mardi Gras...

3 Weeks Later, Container Ship Still Stuck in the Chesapeake

Officials now say they'll start taking hundreds of containers off the Ever Forward to break it loose

(Newser) - Update: The Ever Given was stuck in the Suez Canal for a week. A similar ordeal for the Ever Forward, also owned by Evergreen Marine Corp., in the Chesapeake Bay has lasted a lot longer than that, and officials are now shifting strategy to get that vessel unstuck. The Guardian...

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