The U.S. Coast Guard's elite surfmen are trusted to drive lifeboats on the most challenging rescue missions. They train in ...

The 47-Foot motor Lifeboat is designed as a first response rescue resource for the Coast Guard in high seas, surf and heavy weather environments. They are built to withstand the most severe ...

Fifty knots of winds. It's raining, hailing," said Chief Eric Ceallaigh, who was chief instructor at the Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School. Ceallaigh was training students at the spot ...

Come to starboard. On a wet February afternoon, we're on board a 47 foot U.S. Coast Guard motor lifeboat with Chief Eric Ceallaigh at the helm, driving through breaking surf barely a hundred yards ...

The crew called out for help and the Coast Guard dispatched a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Coast Guard Station Quillayute River and an MH-60 Jayhawk crew from its Air Station in Astoria.

A Disney Cruise Line ship became an unlikely hero after saving the lives of four people stranded on a sinking boat off the ...

All crew members were transferred to a Coast Guard motor lifeboat. One crew member fell in the water during the rescue but was retrieved by lifeboat crew. An emergency tugboat, the Lauren Foss ...

Fifty knots of winds. It's raining, hailing," said Chief Eric Ceallaigh, who was chief instructor at the Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School. Ceallaigh was training students at the spot ...

A 47-foot motor lifeboat crew from the Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, an MH-60 crew from the Coast Guard Air Station Astoria and an emergency tug, Lauren Foss, responded to the call. While ...

On Oct. 27, CBS News aired a “60 minutes” 13-minute segment, “U.S. Coast Guard trains elite rescuers in dangerous area called ‘Graveyard of the Pacific,’” filmed at the Columbia River Bar, about ...