Coast Guard: Mission Critical

When Air Station Clearwater responds to a distress signal in the Gulf of Mexico, they find themselves in a standoff with the vessel in distress.

Three men and their dog are in distress offshore, the USCG trains with the canine explosives detection team, and brothers assist a fellow coast guard.

A man on a cruise ship suffers a heart attack, an accident with a crab pot disables a sailboat, and storms sweep a family out to sea.

Sixty miles off the coast of Key West, Fla., a family cruise takes a terrible turn. Air Station Miami rescues a six year-old boy with a possible burst appendix and during the Covid Pandemic, a passenger is evacuated from a cruise.

The USGC extract a stranded hiker perilously clinging to the edge of a cliff and rescue a man and his dog stranded overnight on a small remote island.

Crews search for vessels in distress overtaken by powerful storms, a sailboat calls for help, and a rookie rescue swimmer gets his first case.

USCG Key West spots plane debris; Marathon's crew hunts for survivors. In the Pacific, USCGC Munro chases drug runners.

Smugglers try to evade US counter narcotics intelligence, high tides trap two hikers at sunset, and rescuers search for a man struggling in the water.

When a fisherman goes missing off the Florida coast, USCG Air Station Miami is tasked with the impossible; finding a 14-foot boat in a vast, churned up Atlantic ocean.