The U.S. Coast Guard patrols our coastlines, bays, ocean and estuaries, helping to keep our waters safe.
Published: April, 2007
• March 7, WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Coast Guard is the lead agency for maritime law enforcement that conducts drug interdiction operations on, under and over assigned international waters and waters subject to United States jurisdiction. During 2006, the agency set a cocaine interdiction record (97,635 pounds).
• March 23, ALAMEDA – The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a medical evacuation of a 59 year-old man from a 600-foot cargo ship approximately 60 miles west of San Francisco, after he, a diabetic, had run out of medicine become ill.
