Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan is already being hailed an "American hero" after his very first mission -- helping to save the lives of 165 Texas flash-flood victims.

Last Friday, U.S. Coast Guard personnel conducted an audacious rescue, pulling a man from the big waves and choppy seas of the Oregon Coast. For the rescue swimmer, Aviation Survival Technician ...

In 2002, Faulkner won transfer to the Coast Guard’s Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, and she was deployed there as one of 20 swimmers involved in rescues along the Gulf of Mexico.

Phoenix Hanna, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, died recently in a California surfing accident. Hanna was a third-generation Coastguardsman, his father said, and his son’s death marks “the first ...

In 2002, Faulkner won transfer to the Coast Guard’s Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, and she was deployed there as one of 20 swimmers involved in rescues along the Gulf of Mexico.

A swimmer who was missing at sea off the coast of a beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts, for over four hours was rescued on the evening of Oct. 18, 2016, according to police.

ASTORIA, Ore. — A newly minted Coast Guard rescue swimmer saved a man’s life Friday at the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state just after a giant wave rolled the ...

Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Tony Ariola, a helicopter rescue swimmer from Air Station Savannah, hones his skills in Charleston Harbor, S.C., during a training mission.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Kilbane, and aviation survival technician at Coast Guard Sector North Bend sews materials at a sewing machine in the rescue swimmer shop in North Bend, Oregon, April 10, ...