Coast Guard Makes Illegal Catch: Mexican Crew Believed Fishing U.S. Waters Jumps Ship
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By Jose Borjon, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 23--Mexican nationals caught illegally fishing in U.S. waters were rescued from the Gulf of Mexico Friday morning. The four men leapt or were thrown from their boat after crashing into a U.S. Coast Guard vessel.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 11--COSALA, Mexico -- Like all fishermen, the osprey perched atop a lofty saguaro cactus did not appreciate being crowded. Ron Speed's fishing boat interrupted the fish eagle's breakfast.
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One of two men who jumped from a cargo ship bound for New Jersey was found by fishermen Monday off Staten Island, and a search was on for the other, police said.
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Mexican federal police captured suspected drug trafficker Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, a fugitive in Mexico and the US, which had a $2 million State Department reward out for information leading to his arrest.
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A man who decided to swim to safety after the boat he was on capsized about 15 miles offshore was rescued Sunday after spending 24 hours in the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard said. His four fishing companions also were rescued.
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The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for six boaters and said it was investigating the distress calls about their small craft taking on water as a possible hoax.
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By MARCUS WOHLSEN  SAN FRANCISCO - Friends of an acclaimed computer scientists who vanished at sea said Wednesday they were expanding their search for him to waters off Mexico, nearly a week after the Coast Guard called off its own search.
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MEXICO CITY - The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore yesterday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific. Officials were searching for more victims off San Francisco del Mar, west of Mexico's border with Guatemala. Officials said they believed 26 people were aboard the small boat, which ...
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The Coast Guard will begin testing in February a new way to prevent terrorism on the seas: radio receivers on weather buoys ringing the U.S. coast that can track ships long before they reach ports.
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Spanish Civil Guards on Thursday heightened a battle over a $500 million treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Tampa, Fla.,-based company.
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PHOENIX, Ariz./MONTERREY, Mexico  - An  Arizona-based citizens group is recruiting hundreds of  volunteers to patrol the border with Mexico this spring, saying  that U.S. government has failed to stem the flow of illegal  immigrants.
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The captain of a treasure-hunting ship intercepted in a dispute over a $500 million undersea find was released Wednesday after being held overnight for questioning in a southern Spanish port city, his company said.
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The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Wednesday for 10 migrants whose boat capsized in rough waters between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Five survivors and two bodies have been recovered.
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All those recreational anglers who dangle bait off US coasts are catching a much bigger share of fish -- especially some threatened species -- than commonly thought, researchers report in a new study.
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The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security camers have blindspots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their own
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- A life capsized has stranded Jose de Jesus Torres atop these craggy cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Waves crash and dolphins dance as this modern-day cliff dweller waits for another opportunity to cross the US border.
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Three Mexican fishermen said they sang ballads, danced and played air guitar as they drifted for months in an open boat across the wide Pacific, surviving on raw fish caught with jury-rigged engine cables and drinking rainwater.