After several hours, crews from the the Coast Guard's Atlantic City and Delaware Bay stations were finally able to refloat a barge and tugboat that ran aground Sunday near Absecon Inlet.
Two Marine Corps helicopters carrying six crew members each collided and went down off the Hawaiian island of Oahu while on a nighttime training mission, and rescuers searched choppy waters Friday where debris had been sighted, military officials said.
Crews from the NJ Coast Guard performed several dramatic rescues this past weekend off the coast of South Jersey, pulling two hypothermic fisherman from the frigid waters and saving an overboard boat passenger as well as a cat during another rescue.
The Coast Guard came to the aid of three hunters who were stranded in southern New Jersey after their 18-foot boat became grounded during a hunting trip.
A lack of training and experience combined with poor decision-making were contributing factors in the sinking of a commercial fishing boat off the New Jersey coast in 2009 that killed six people according to a report released Friday by the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard came to the aid of two elderly cruise ship passengers who needed emergency medical assistance while the vessel was off the southern New Jersey coast.