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Coast Guard Fort Lauderdale 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crewmembers stand in front of a capsized boat at St. Andrews Bay, Florida, Oct. 22, 2018. The boatcrew spotted the capsized boat during a law enforcement patrol through a Hurricane Michael high-impact area. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Brindley.

June 17, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Cleaning up after Florida's most destructive hurricanes

Hurricane season is here, we take a moment to remember clean up efforts from Hurricane Michael in 2018.

Prince William Sound, AK (Mar. 24)--The Exxon Valdez remains in place in Prince Williams Sound after running aground. The Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 23, 1989 spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil, which resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history. U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO

May 20, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Four Minutes after Midnight—Bligh Reef, Murphy Prefers Midnight!

Exxon Valdez tragedy...32 years later

Portrait of William Tatham in 1779. Tatham was a contemporary and frequent correspondent of the president. He was universally acknowledged as brilliant, but could be abrasive and arrogant. He quickly alienated the other two commissioners, Jonathan Price and William Coles, working on the 1806 survey. They ended up submitting separate reports, and only Coles and Price produced the chart. (North Carolina Historical Review, July 1972)

May 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Death by hurricane of Coast Survey Cutters Diligence and Governor Williams 216 years ago

A busy hurricane season of 1806.

A map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing the State of Alaska and the epicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. (NOAA)

April 15, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “The land turned to liquid”—Coast Guard operations in the Great Alaska Earthquake

The land turned to liquid. A long slice of the seaward edge of the plain…a section nearly a mile long and as much as six hundred feet wide-compacted, slumped, and then slid into the bay… men tumbled into the water, grasping for anything – timbers, boxes, debris-to stay afloat. One clung to the side of the fissure before he too, fell in. In the

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star passes Alcatraz as the cutter transits the San Francisco Bay, April 4, 2022. Following their 147-day Antarctic deployment, the cutter will undergo annual maintenance in a Vallejo, California, dry dock. Courtesy photo by Sachiko Itagaki.

April 14, 2022

Frontline Focus: Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment

Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment; U.S., Philippine Coast Guards host maritime law enforcement forum in Guam; Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane returns home to Portsmouth, Virginia following 50-day patrol; and Coast Guard offloads $20 million in cocaine, following at-sea drug bust near Puerto Rico.