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The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a multiday search for a scuba diver who disappeared Thursday morning off Guam’s western coast.

Crews from the Coast Guard, Guam Police Department, the Navy and Guam Fire Department searched for a missing diver Thursday, and the search is planned to continue throughout the night.

A 35-year-old scuba diver went missing Thursday while apparently working off the west coast of Guam, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Members of U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam and the U.S. Coast Guard 14th District conducted meetings and a tabletop exercise in Pohnpei the week of Dec. 12 around the use of the expanded bilateral agreement in support of maritime law enforcement operations recently signed between the Federated States of Micronesia and the United States in October, before successfully executing boardings under the agreement Dec. 17.

A Guam-based Coast Guard crew recently conducted community engagement in Pohnpei as part of Operation Rematau, according to a news release from the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard’s fast response cutter Oliver Henry returned home to Guam this week after completing a 43-day expeditionary patrol across Oceania intended to usher in a greater presence in the region by the service.

A Guam-based Coast Guard cutter arrived in Cairns, Australia, on Wednesday to work with Australian Defence and Home Affairs partners and local representatives, according to a news release from the

First responders will be holding a search and rescue exercise in Tumon Bay on Thursday, according to a news release from the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard has taken delivery of the last Fast Response Cutter the service plans to station in Bahrain. Bollinger Shipyards, which builds the Fast Response Cutters, in a Thursday news release announced the delivery of the cutter Clarence Sutphin. “USCGC Clarence Sutphin is the final of six FRCs to be home-ported in Manama, Bahrain, which […]

The fast-response cutters are designed for missions beyond the traditional search-and-rescue work for which the Coast Guard is best known.