COAST GUARD Definition & Meaning

Coast Guard

noun

U.S. Military. a military service under the Department of Transportation, which in peacetime enforces maritime laws, saves lives and property at sea, and maintains aids to navigation, and which in wartime may be placed under the Navy Department to augment the navy.
(lowercase) any similar organization for aiding navigation, preventing smuggling, etc.
(lowercase) Also called coastguardsman. a member of any such organization.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Coast Guard¹

First recorded in 1825–35

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This was not an isolated incident: Sri Lankan authorities have seized illegally harvested shark fins on at least 25 separate occasions since January 2021, according to press releases from the Sri Lankan Coast Guard.

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Fire and coast guard teams in Humboldt County staged a laborious rescue operation Saturday after a hiker who strayed off California’s Lost Coast Trail plummeted 100 feet down a rugged cliff and had to cling to a 60-foot bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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Coast Guard Sector and deployed a rescue boat and jet ski with four rescue swimmers, the fire department said in a statement.

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After 3:30 p.m., a coast guard helicopter rescue team arrived on scene.

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Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay showed a helicopter flying along the steep coastline and, coordinating with rescuers on the ground, locating both hikers along the steep cliffside.

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