After finding the 30-ton steel hatch cover that blew off a coal carrier this week amid an explosion on board the ship, dive teams are working to find out how to remove it.

Joel William Kawahara went missing last week after departing from his home alone aboard the fishing vessel. Coast Guard crews found the vessel.

The agency's plan, announced this spring, would have removed almost 150 buoys as part of an effort to modernize the navigational setup.

Seven people suspected of being in the country illegally were taken into federal custody Saturday, Aug. 16, off the coast of Newport Beach. Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a report around 9 p.m. requesting a boarding after a patrol of a 20-foot ship with seven people aboard, according to the Coast Guard.

The family of Kevin Finkbonner is questioning why he was in the water for more than an hour before rescuers arrived to the site of the sinking near Point Roberts.

The body of a man who was believed to have been aboard a 42-foot sailboat was found off the Georgia coast Wednesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

China has deployed coast guard ships and several militia vessels close to the wreck of a long-grounded Philippine military ship in a disputed South China Sea shoal, where Filipino forces have been put on alert.

A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”