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Still Searching for Crash Survivors

Little hope 24 hours after accident off Calif.

Oct 30, 09 9:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - The search continues tonight for survivors from last night’s midair collision of a Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter off the Southern California coast, but hopes grow ever slimmer of finding any of the nine crew members alive. Officials have yet to re-examine air traffic recordings for any... More »

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Coast Guard • plane crash • San Clemente • helicopter crash • Marines • search and rescue

9 Missing in Coast Guard Plane Crash

Pilot reported huge fireball

Oct 30, 09 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nine people are missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a military helicopter last night off the coast of southern California. A pilot flying in the area reported seeing a huge fireball. Seven people were traveling aboard the plane, and two were in the chopper. A search-and-rescue mission is... More »

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California • Pacific Ocean • Coast Guard • plane crash • helicopter • Marines • rescue mission

US Coast Guard, Brit Navy Seize $380M in Cocaine

Nearly 5.5 tons discovered under concrete floor of fishing boat

Sep 28, 09 2:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British Navy and US Coast Guard have seized a record $380 million worth of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of South America.  The boat was searched for 24 hours before investigators broke up the concrete floor with sledgehammers and discovered 5.5 tons of the... More »

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crime • cocaine • Coast Guard • South America • drug traffickers • British Navy

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Coast Guard Exercise Triggers 9/11 Potomac Scare

Ill-timed drill coincides with Pentagon ceremony

Sep 11, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a case of not-so-great timing, the Coast Guard conducted a training exercise on how to handle a rogue boat this morning in the Potomac River—with 9/11 commemorations taking place at the Pentagon and the president's motorcade crossing a nearby bridge, the Washington Post reports. The exercise caused a... More »

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Pentagon • FBI • September 11 • Coast Guard • CNN • 9/11 attacks • Reagan National Airport • Potomac River • training exercise

 Melting Ice Opens Arctic 
 to Trade, But US Lags 

Climate change opens north to shipping, tourism, resource development

Sep 6, 09 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Climate change is melting away the main barrier to business in the Arctic—ice—but the US lags behind other countries seeking to exploit the region, the Anchorage Daily News reports. As receding ice opens the area to shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism, it's Russia and Canada who have established... More »

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climate change • Russia • Alaska • global warming • tourism • Canada • Arctic • Coast Guard • resources • shipping • Bering Strait • transport

Migrant Boat Capsizes Near Haiti; 85 Missing

Some 113 saved after vessel reportedly hit reef evading police

Jul 28, 09 7:35 AM CDT
(AP) - A boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized and sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and up to 85 people are missing, the US Coast Guard says. One survivor said the boat struck a reef as it tried to elude police. Rescuers found 113 survivors stranded on two reefs and recovered... More »

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Haiti • Coast Guard • Turks and Caicos Islands • capsize • migrants

 Navy Copter Crash 
 Kills 3 Near San Diego 

2 crew members still missing

May 20, 09 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Coast Guard is searching for two possible survivors of an early-morning Navy helicopter crash that killed three crew members off the Mexican coast near San Diego. The US and Mexican navies are assisting with the search, as is border patrol, the Union-Tribune reports. The Navy hasn’t identified those... More »

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Mexico • Navy • death • Coast Guard • accident • helicopter crash

 10 Dead After 
 Smuggler's Boat 
 Capsizes Off Fla. 

Coast Guard slams 'callous' smugglers  after migrants drown

May 14, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 10 people died when an overloaded boat authorities believe was being used to smuggle Haitian migrants into the US capsized off the coast of Florida yesterday, CNN reports. The Coast Guard—which launched a massive search-and-rescue operation after a pleasure boat spotted survivors in the water—saved 16... More »

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Florida • Haiti • Coast Guard • smuggler • boat accident • capsize

At Least 9 Dead as Migrants' Boat Capsizes Off Fla.

28 Haitian and Bahamian migrants were aboard: Coast Guard

May 13, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - As many as nine people are dead after a boat carrying 28 Haitian and Bahamian migrants capsized 15 miles off the Florida coast this morning, the Palm Beach Post reports. About half the passengers have been located and the search is continuing, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel adds. Some passengers may... More »

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Florida • Haiti • Coast Guard • Bahamas • boat accident • search and rescue • capsize • migrants

 NFL Boaters 'Freaked Out' 
 in Just Hours: Final Report 

Survivor told Coast Guard companions 'freaked out,' threw punches 

Mar 17, 09 3:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two NFL players may have died only hours after the boat they and two friends were on capsized, according to a Coast Guard report released to the AP. Sole survivor David Schuyler told the Coast Guard that one man "freaked out," took off his life vest, and disappeared... More »

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Coast Guard • Gulf of Mexico • missing boater • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper • Nick Schuyler • William Bleakley

 Families Launch Private Search for NFL Players 

Coast Guard search was called off yesterday, and they were presumed dead

Mar 4, 09 5:14 PM CST
(AP) - The families of the missing football players aren't giving up. Private boats and planes were searching today for two NFL players and a third man after the Coast Guard called off its search yesterday. The men—Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL defensive lineman Corey Smith and former South Florida... More »

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Florida • NFL • Coast Guard • missing boater • fishermen • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper • William Bleakley

(Newser) - The Coast Guard has ended its search for two NFL players and another man whose boat overturned Saturday off the Florida coast, CNN reports. Presumed dead are Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, former Detroit Lions player Corey Smith, and a former college football player, William Bleakley. A fourth man was... More »

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Florida • Coast Guard • missing boater • fishermen • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper • William Bleakley

(AP) - The father of an NFL player among three men lost at sea said today the Coast Guard's hopes of finding survivors off the Florida Gulf Coast are waning. Bruce Cooper, father of Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, says he still has hope. But the Coast Guard told families privately that officials... More »

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NFL • NCAA football • Coast Guard • missing boater • fishing boat • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper

(AP) - The missing fishing buddy rescued today off Florida's Gulf Coast told rescuers the boat was anchored when it flipped Saturday evening in rough seas and that the others got separated from the craft. The boat belongs to Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, who along with free-agent defensive lineman Corey Smith... More »

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Coast Guard • Gulf of Mexico • missing boater • search and rescue • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper • Nick Schuyler • William Bleakley • capsize • lost at sea

 No Distress Signal From 
 Missing NFLers: Coast Guard 

Lion, Raider were fishing off Gulf Coast

Mar 2, 09 6:56 AM CST
(Newser) - The Coast Guard got no distress signal from a missing fishing boat carrying NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith and two friends off Florida's Gulf Coast, the AP reports. “That's not to say they didn't send one out," said an official. "We didn't receive anything”—... More »

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NFL • NCAA football • fishing • Coast Guard • missing boater • missing person • fishing boat • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper

Coast Guard Seeks Missing NFL Players

They went fishing with friends in Fla. and
never returned

Mar 1, 09 5:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The Coast Guard is scanning choppy waters off Florida's Gulf Coast for two NFL players and their friends, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Corey Smith of the Detroit Lions and Victor Cooper of the Oakland Raiders went fishing with two friends yesterday and never returned. Their 21-foot boat is "... More »

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NFL • fishing • Coast Guard • missing boater • boating

 Fishermen Return to Thin Ice  

Warnings averted a major tragedy

Feb 9, 09 2:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Hundreds of ice fisherman were already back on frozen sections of Lake Erie yesterday less than 24 hours after the rescue of 125 fishermen stranded on a drifting ice floe. Some headed to risky areas where currents can create dangerously thin ice, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Experts warned that... More »

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Coast Guard • Lake Erie • rescue • National Weather Service • ice fishing • Catawba Island State Park

Speedy Rescue Team Saved Everyone

Commuter ferries, private boats helped save  passengers

Jan 16, 09 3:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Swift action from a small army of volunteer and working rescuers is credited with saving the lives of everybody on board US Airways Flight 1549, the New York Times reports. Within minutes of the plane hitting the Hudson river, ferries, cruise boats and conventional rescue boats converged on the scene... More »

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New York City • US Airways • Coast Guard • plane crash • rescue • Hudson River • emergency landing • ferry • Flight 1549 • Hudson crash

(Newser) - The recent terrorist attack in Mumbai has US officials redoubling efforts to secure America’s coastline, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Coast Guard is planning to increase security by issuing ID cards to workers and installing transponders on boats to keep track of activity in US waters. But... More »

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terrorism • Department of Homeland Security • Coast Guard • terrorist attack • ports of entry • Mumbai attacks • boating

Search for Missing Cruise Woman Suspended

Family believes she jumped from ship

Dec 30, 08 1:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The search for a woman missing from a cruise ship off Mexico since Christmas has been suspended, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Jennifer Ellis-Seitz of is believed to have gone overboard from the Norwegian Pearl near Cancun in what may have been a suicide. Her husband—arrested in April for... More »

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Coast Guard • Cancun • Gulf of Mexico • cruise ships • missing boater • missing person

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