Mechanical issues continue to plague Mare Island bridge
Mechanical issues have continued to prevent the Mare Island Causeway Bridge in Vallejo to rise and lower to allow boat traffic, city officials said this week.
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Mechanical issues have continued to prevent the Mare Island Causeway Bridge in Vallejo to rise and lower to allow boat traffic, city officials said this week.
Coast Guard officers fired at and sank a speedboat suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, officials said,
Alameda police and fire personnel who were searching for an adult male swimmer who appeared to be in distress at Encinal Beach Friday evening have recovered the man's body.
A surfer who was reported to be in distress at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica on Thursday morning has made their way back to shore with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard, according to the North County Fire Authority.
Officials have yet to find the source of the oil spill, which has left chunky globules and long slicks near a 67-mile-long pipeline system off the coast of Louisiana.
The San Mateo County Coroner on Monday identified the 5-year-old girl who died after being pulled from the ocean at Martins Beach near Half Moon Bay over the weekend.
The U.S. Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the Titan submersible, which imploded with five people on board while attempting a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic. Roxana Saberi has the latest.
The remotely operated vehicle, called Odysseus 6K, initially located the debris field that included fragments of the lost submersible last week.
A sub that set out to explore the Titanic wreckage vanished in the North Atlantic, prompting a massive search and rescue operation.
The Titan submersible went missing Sunday while on a journey to see the wreckage of the Titanic. On Thursday, a U.S. Navy official said the Navy detected "an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion" shortly after the sub, named Titan, lost contact with the surface Sunday. CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi reports from Boston.
The U.S. Coast Guard said the sub experienced a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," and confirmed that a debris field found on the sea floor was pieces of the missing sub.
The noises were picked up by a Canadian aircraft, the U.S. Coast Guard says. The submersible went missing with five people on board.
OceanGate Expeditions' small Titan submersible set off with 5 people, including 3 paying passengers and, at most, about 96 hours' worth of oxygen on board.
U.S. Coast Guard officials said 5 people were aboard the submersible that lost contact about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, where the Titanic sank in 1912.
A whale-watching vessel with 43 people onboard caught fire of Point Pinos on Sunday, requiring the U.S. Coast Guard to tow the boat back to shore.
A man who jumped into the ocean off the Pacifica Pier prompted a rescue involving two fire companies, a rescue unit, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and lifeboat.
With atmospheric river after atmospheric river hitting the region, it's been a busy year for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Authorities were searching Tuesday for a missing boater off of Dutton Island in Solano County after his vessel capsized Monday night, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday suspended the search for a 7-year-old boy whose mother was found dead in the water off Monterey County.
"Operation Hay Drop" is a mission to save starving and stranded cows – many of which are pregnant – from dying amid back-to-back winter storms.
The Coast Guard rescued seven people from a disabled boat taking on water about five miles west of Muir Beach Friday afternoon with no reported injuries.
Fleet Week is an exciting time in the Bay Area, and it gets very busy out on the water during the festivities. The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the agencies that works hard to keep everyone safe during the week.
San Francisco police are asking for information concerning a man involved in a bizarre incident on Pier 50 Thursday afternoon.
Boat and water safety is critical year round, but especially during summer as more people take to local waterways to cool down.
The United States Coast Guard Northern California rescued a windsurfer from the San Francisco Bay on Monday, the San Francisco Fire Department reported.
