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Emergency Services
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Each day, the men and women of the 35,000
plus active duty Coast Guard, 8,000 Reservists and 32,000 Auxiliarists
provide services over 3.4 million square miles of Exclusive Economic
Zones...
- Conduct 109 Search and Rescue Cases.
- Save 10 lives.
- Assist 192 people in distress.
- Protect $2,791,841 in property.
- Small boats are underway for 396
- sorties/missions.
- Aircraft fly 164 missions, logging 324 hours, of
- which 19 hrs are flown off patrolling cutters.
- Law enforcement teams board 144 vessels.
- Seize 169 pounds of marijuana and 306 pounds
- of cocaine worth $9,589,000.00.
- Seize 1 drug smuggling vessel every five days
- Cutter and small boat crews interdict and rescue
- 14 illegal migrants.
- Marine Safety personnel open 8 new cases formarine violation
of federal statutes
- Process 238 Seaman licenses and documents.
- Marine Inspectors board 100 large vessels for port safety checks.
- Vessel examiners conduct 20 commercial fishing vessel safety
exams and issue 11 fishing vessel compliance decals.
- Pollution investigators respond to 20 oil or hazardous chemical
spills totaling 2,800 gallons.
- Investigate 6 vessel casualties involving collisions, allisions
or groundings.
- Buoy tenders and Aids to Navigational Teams service 135 aids
to navigation.
- Vessel Traffic Service controllers assist 2,509 commercial ships
entering & leaving U.S. ports.
- Icebreakers and buoy tenders assist 196,938 tons of shipping
daily during the Great Lakes ice season.
- International Ice Patrol sorties provide ice safety information
to facilitate the 163,238 tons of shipping during the North Atlantic
ice season.
- Auxiliarists conduct 377 vessel safety checks and teach boating
safety courses to 550 boaters.
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Helicopters used by the US Coastguard.
Headquarters
Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard,
2100 Second Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20593
General Information
Telephone: 202-267-2229
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