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Sunken tugboat, barge submerged in upper Houston Ship Channel — A barge sits almost vertical in the upper Houston Ship Channel with a boom surrounding it after it became submerged around 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service Houston received a radio call from a good Samaritan who saw the ve.

Coast Guard wants to raise marine casualty damage threshold

Dale K. DuPont

Antarctic Icebreaking 2017 — The Coast Guard cutter Polar Star, with 75,000 hp and its 13,500-ton weight, broke through Antarctic ice en route to the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer David Mosley.

Photos: Coast Guard cutter arrives in Antarctica

David Krapf

uss-nitze-arrives-mauritius-2014-usn — PORT LOUIS, Mauritius (March 10, 2014) The guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) pulls alongside a tugboat as the ship prepares to moor for a scheduled port visit. Nitze is on a scheduled deployment supporting maritime security operations and theat.

Finding the Coast Guard, 9,455 miles from home

Pamela Glass

port-of-wilmington-nc-nc-port — The Port of Wilmington, N.C., where Coast Guard inspectors discovered evidence of pollution from the Liberian-flagged Ocean Hope. N.C. Ports photo.

Operators fined $2.7 million in N.C. ‘magic pipe’ case

Kirk Moore

el-faro-navigation-bridge-curv21-ntsb — A close-up view of the El Faro's navigation bridge taken by the Navy ROV CURV-21. NTSB photo.

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Coast Guard schedules final El Faro hearing

Ashley Herriman

101209-G-0450H-105 - Locating devices — A digital selective calling VHF-FM marine-band radio. Coast Guard photo.

Coming to your next VHF: new channel numbers

Kirk Moore

Eastern-Shipbuilding-Allanton-Facility-Aerial — Eastern Shipbuilding's Allanton Road shipyard in Panama City, Fla. Eastern Shipbuilding photo.

Former Coast Guard commandant joins Eastern Shipbuilding

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Fishing vessel Lady Gudny adrift at sea — The fishing vessel Lady Gudny drifts unmanned in heavy seas after becoming dead in the water due to fuel problems 230 miles east-southeast of Kodiak, Alaska, Jan. 6, 2017. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60T Jayhawk crew hoisted four people from the .

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Video: Commercial tug tows CG cutter after recovery gone wrong

Ashley Herriman

bosuns-chair-orp-iskra-800x600 — A cadet on the Polish Navy training ship Iskra uses a bosun's chair. Creative Commons photo by Żeglarz.

When everything went wrong — and nothing had to

Kirk Moore

06.05.14_tokitae — The Washington State Ferry Tokitae. WSF photo.

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$9,500 fine for Washington State Ferry laser strike

Ashley Herriman

chicago_river_traffic_wendella_sightseeing — In the summer, the Chicago River is clogged with a mix of recreational boats, kayakers and commercial vessels. Wendella Sightseeing photo.

Waterway congestion needs a master plan

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