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Average Day
Source: G-IPA
Each day, the men and women of the 35,000 plus
active duty Coast Guard, 8,000 Reservists and 32,000
Auxiliarists provide services over 3.4 million square miles of
Exclusive Economic Zones...
- Conduct 109 Search and Rescue Cases.
- Save 10 lives.
- Assist 192 people in distress.
- Protect
$2,791,841 in property.
- Small boats
are underway for 396 sorties/missions.
- Aircraft fly
164 missions, logging 324 hours, of which 19 hrs are flown off
patrolling cutters.
- Law
enforcement teams board 144 vessels.
- Seize 169
pounds of marijuana and 306 pounds of cocaine worth
$9,589,000.00.
- Seize 1 drug
smuggling vessel every five days
- Cutter and
small boat crews interdict and rescue 14 illegal migrants.
- Marine Safety
personnel open 8 new cases for marine violation of federal
statutes
- Process 238
Seaman licenses and documents.
- Marine
Inspectors board 100 large vessels for port safety checks.
- Vessel
examiners conduct 20 commercial fishing vessel safety exams
and issue 11 fishing vessel compliance decals.
- Pollution
investigators respond to 20 oil or hazardous chemical spills
totaling 2,800 gallons.
- Investigate 6
vessel casualties involving collisions, allisions or
groundings.
- Buoy tenders
and Aids to Navigational Teams service 135 aids to navigation.
- Vessel
Traffic Service controllers assist 2,509 commercial ships
entering & leaving U.S. ports.
- Icebreakers and buoy tenders assist 196,938
tons of shipping daily during the Great Lakes ice season.
- International
Ice Patrol sorties provide ice safety information to
facilitate the 163,238 tons of shipping during the North
Atlantic ice season.
- Auxiliarists
conduct 377 vessel safety checks and teach boating safety
courses to 550 boaters.
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