U.S. Coast Guard

The voting is now officially underway for Coast Guard Video of the Year! Last week we offered you a sampling of the top 11 Coast Guard videos of 2009. Now, it is time for you to vote on your favorites and help us select your top three videos...

We have heard from a few of you, wonderinghow to register a vote on YouTube for the Coast Guard Video of the Year contest. Since this is the first time we have used YouTube for a contest, we thought we would clarify the voting process...

Coast Guard Compass has been following the story of a Gloucester lobster boat which lost propulsion 200 miles offshore on Wednesday. We can now report that the boat has safely docked in Provincetown, Mass. after tows from the CGC Escanaba and a small boat from Station Provincetown...

Last Thursday, Coast Guard Reserve Senior Chief Boatswains Mate and Vermont State Police Senior Trooper Jonathan Graham was awarded the Vermont State Police Lifesaving Award for his heroic actions on July 30, 2009...

Guardians aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba are racing the clock in an effort to tow a Gloucester lobster boat and its crew back to shore ahead of a powerful winter storm. The two boats are making approximately 4-knots of headway in 10-15 foot seas and 38 mile-per-hour winds...

For more than 50 years, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has served as the maritime arm of the United Nations...

The Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba was deployed last night to investigate a distress call from a Gloucester lobster boat disabled approximately 200-miles offshore...

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Everyday, Guardians are involved in amazing rescues, national security operations and drug interdictions. Whenever possible, Guardians capture those Coast Guard operations on video...

Ice breaking season officially got underway on the Great Lakes this weekend. Operations Taconite and Coal Shovel are designed to keep Great Lakes waterways open for commercial vessels during the winter season. Click here to learn more about Great Lakes ice breaking...

UPDATE: Click hereto read a story about the joint tactical boat training between Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay and the Philadelphia Marine Police Unit mentioned in the picture of the day. Coast Guard ...

Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane seized 6,000 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $83 million from a foreign vessel in the Caribbean Sea on December 3rd. While on a routine patrol, a Customs and Border Protection aircraft spotted the freighter and notified the cutter to intercept the vessel...

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] This video illustrates the dangers of deploying a rescue swimmer and hoisting a person off of a vessel in 20-foot seas...

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] The Coast Guard wrapped announced the findings of its year-long investigation into the loss of CG-6505 on Friday...

Earlier this week, we highlighted Guardians training to rescue one of their own off the coast of Savannah. On Wednesday, Air Station Sitka hoisted a petty officer who was separated from his hunting party in the Alaskan wilderness...