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A boater who set out on a fishing trip to celebrate his 70th birthday is recounting the hours spent offshore after his catamaran capsized.
The U.S. Coast Guard successfully located four missing boaters who failed to return from a fishing trip on Monday.Officials said the<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More
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Florida men found alive after clinging to capsized boat for 20 hours off Clearwater coast: Police
Four men who were reported missing Monday night after not returning from a Clearwater fishing trip have been safely located, according to the Clearwater Police Department.
The service continues seizing record numbers of drugs at sea. In the last fiscal year, it brought in over 500,000 pounds of cocaine.
The seizure of some $362 million in illicit drugs was largely the result of 15 interdictions by the crews of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone — a 418-foot national security cutter homeported in Charleston, South Carolina — and some Pacific operations, a news release states.
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Missing Florida boaters found after 20 hours in the Gulf
Four fishermen from Mulberry, Florida, were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after their boat overturned 26 miles offshore.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Florida police and the U.S. Coast Guard located four boaters who were reported missing. Clearwater police have confirmed the four men reported missing overnight have been found and are safe. The group’s capsized boat was found around 26 miles off the coast, officials said.
A Florida man attempted to cross the Atlantic in a watercraft resembling a hamster wheel and was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard. Snopes was unable to verify whether the Coast Guard formally arrested the man, Reza Baluchi, or whether federal charges were brought against him.