WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced it has adapted ICx Technologies' Fido explosives detector for wide-area harsh maritime environments.

PORT ISABEL, Texas, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A four-man crew has been rescued from a burning tugboat in the Intracoastal Waterway near Port Isabel, Texas, the Coast Guard reported Monday.

HOUSTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The Coast Guard reopened the Houston Ship Channel Thursday after a chemical tanker collided with a moored barge, causing a small oil spill in the waterway. The channel was reopened at 11 a.m. following an overnight mishap in which the tanker Ievoli Splend

PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A section of the Neches River remained closed Tuesday in southeast Texas as a crews continued to clean up a 30,000-gallon fuel oil spill.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The European Union is expected to approve in Brussels a EU-wide blacklist of unsafe airlines after the crash of the Flash Airlines plane that killed 148.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A fire broke out on a 504-foot gas-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, forcing 55 workers to evacuate to life rafts, the Coast Guard said.

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KEY LARGO,, Fla., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 7-0 Thursday to ban shark-feeding trips for divers on grounds it changes the behavior of the predato