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Sept. 30, 2025
Coast Guard takes charge of the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) program
Service replaces National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in overseeing network that detects distress signals.
May 19, 2025
Rescue, Ready, Repeat: Honoring our SAR heroes
National SAR Week (May 18-24) is a week that highlights the Coast Guard's critical role in saving lives across land, air, and sea.
Nov. 1, 2024
Evolution of SAR
Search and rescue is a basic principle: someone is in distress and the Coast Guard answers the call, and that bias for action is an innate quality in the service’s long line of rescuers.
May 20, 2024
Happy National SAR Week!
Thank you to all the responders who risk their lives everyday.
April 5, 2024
406 Day 2024: Celebrating over 50,000 lives saved
The Coast Guard celebrates 406 Day, April 6th, alongside our Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) partners - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Air Force.
July 17, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard helps rescue U.S. submarine Squalus over 80 years ago!
Trapped and tragically drowned in the flooded after compartments were 24 officers and sailors plus two civilian technicians. This left 32 officers and sailors and one civilian technician alive in the unflooded forward compartments.
June 26, 2023
Coast Guard convenes a Marine Board of Investigation for Titan Submersible
An MBI is the highest level of investigation in the Coast Guard. Upon completion of the investigation, the Board will issue a report to the Commandant with the evidence collected, the facts established, its conclusions, and recommendations.
Jan. 13, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Senior Chief Richard Dixon—heavy-weather coxswain during powerful Fourth of July
Two notable rescues in the same weekend
Nov. 24, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Keeper Lawrence Lawson and students rescue Evanston crew Thanksgiving Day rescue 130 years ago
A Thanksgiving1889 rescue on Lake Michigan.
March 25, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Alaska Ranger—the historic Bering Sea rescue that defied the odds and saved 42 souls!
A once in a career rescue, all in the cold waters of the Bering Sea.
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