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⚠️ ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE | Smiling Cove Marina, SaipanBeginning Monday, June 1, a federal and local team will begin removi...
29/05/2026

⚠️ ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE | Smiling Cove Marina, Saipan

Beginning Monday, June 1, a federal and local team will begin removing vessels damaged by Super Typhoon Sinlaku from Smiling Cove Marina. Operations are expected to last 30 days.

Road access at the connection points of Basin Place and Marina Lane will be CLOSED beginning June 1.
Water and boat ramp access remain UNAFFECTED by these operations.

Residents are asked to stay away from the work area and follow all safety signs and instructions. Heavy machinery, cutting equipment, and diving operations will be active throughout the operation.

This mission is funded through FEMA under the Presidential Disaster Declaration for the CNMI. Partners include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA, FEMA, CNMI DLNR, T&T Marine Salvage, and OSROCO.

Thank you for your patience as we work together to restore safe access to Saipan's waterway.

🔗 Full release + photos: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/566387/federal-local-partners-begin-30-day-vessel-removal-operation-smiling-cove-marina-restore-safe-waterway-access

Pop quiz. No warning. And Tristar Terminals Guam passed with flying colors.Earlier this week, our team showed up unann...
29/05/2026


Pop quiz. No warning. And Tristar Terminals Guam passed with flying colors.

Earlier this week, our team showed up unannounced at Tristar Terminals Guam, the island’s largest bulk fuel storage facility, and a key piece of Guam’s energy and defense infrastructure. Under the National Preparedness for Response Program (PREP), facilities like Tristar are required to maintain and execute oil spill response plans, and GIUEs are how we make sure those plans are more than just paper.

Think of it as a no-notice readiness check: we simulate an oil spill scenario and watch how a facility activates its response plan in real time, without any chance to prepare.

Tristar’s team didn’t miss a beat. They knew their plan, executed it quickly, and demonstrated exactly the kind of readiness that keeps Guam’s waters and coastline protected.

These exercises are required under the National Preparedness for Response Program (PREP), and they matter. Guam’s marine environment, its reefs, its fishing, its coastline, are worth protecting. Partnerships like this one make sure we’re ready when it counts.

Great work, Tristar.

📸 Photos by MSTCS Reilly

The flags are up on USCGC Oliver Henry today, snapping bow to bridge in the breeze. If you’ve ever stood a watch, you kn...
24/05/2026

The flags are up on USCGC Oliver Henry today, snapping bow to bridge in the breeze. If you’ve ever stood a watch, you know that sound.

This Memorial Day, we remember the shipmates who didn’t come home — and the ones long before us who built this Service, and this country.

The watch they handed us is kept right here, by all of us together:

— The admin and logistics shops that get our people paid, supplies moved, and taken care of.
— The maintainers who keep our cutters, boats, and gear ready to answer the call.
— The cutter and small boat crews who go out on patrol or response sometimes in fair weather sometimes in rough seas.
— The prevention team — inspectors, investigators, waterways — keeping our ports safe and the commerce of this region moving.
— Our Auxiliarists, civilian volunteers in the uniform, who teach boating safety, check vessels, and stand with us across these islands as a team.

None of it is small. All of it is how we honor them — by building forward from what they gave.

To those who never came home: we remember you.
To the families carrying that loss: we stand with you.
To our shipmates across Micronesia: si Yu’os ma’åse’ for the watch you keep.

Semper Paratus.

📸 Photo by PO Bentley

19/05/2026

Great information from our Hawai’i-based team! EPIRBs and PLBs are a vital tool in the Pacific. They save lives and significantly reduce search times. They work in remote areas with no cellular or limited radio coverage. It is important to register them properly take care responders the most up-to-date information on the owner of the device. Registration is free.

Today, we close out National Police Week and honor National Peace Officers Day by doing exactly what our people do ever...
15/05/2026



Today, we close out National Police Week and honor National Peace Officers Day by doing exactly what our people do every day — showing up for this community.

This morning, our Sector Boarding Team was out early at Agat Marina for a shoreside safety patrol. They checked in on three recreational vessels before the weekend gets going. Two were good to go. The third wasn’t heading back out just yet.

Boarding officers cited the vessel for two safety violations: no visual distress signals aboard and an inadequate number of personal flotation devices. They also found a registration violation — the physical hull identification number didn’t match the registration on file. The voyage was terminated until the owner can get those issues squared away.

No one wants to spend their Friday like that, but this is exactly why we do these patrols. A missing flare kit or one too few life jackets can be the difference between a rescue and a tragedy.

With National Safe Boating Week kicking off this Saturday, the timing is a good reminder for everyone to check your gear before you leave the dock — not after. Make sure your lifejackets are aboard and fit for everyone on the vessel, your safety equipment is current and accessible, and your registration is in order.

And as we’ve said this week, VHF radio coverage in parts of Guam and the CNMI remains limited following Typhoon Sinlaku. Carry a backup means of communication and always tell someone ashore your plans!

To our Sector Boarding Team and to peace officers everywhere — thank you for your service. We’ll see you out there.

Have a safe weekend and stop by the National Safety Boating Week showcase hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and supported by our partners from 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. at the Micronesian Mall!

Photos by PO Ferrell

When a super typhoon leaves behind oil, hazardous materials, and marine debris, this is how we respond.
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11/05/2026

When a super typhoon leaves behind oil, hazardous materials, and marine debris, this is how we respond.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel from Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam and the National Strike Force’s Pacific Strike Team are currently forward-deployed to Saipan, working shoulder-to-shoulder with Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands agencies and FEMA at the Emergency Operations Center to address oil pollution, hazardous materials, and marine debris concerns in the wake of Super Typhoon Sinlaku.

Our teams continue to reassess affected vessels and shorelines, coordinating with CNMI’s Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality and other local and federal partners under Emergency Support Function #10 — Oil and Hazardous Materials Response. The good news is that most of the affected vessels are not a pollution threat, and at this time, no vessels of concern have been identified in Rota, Tinian, or Guam.

The ESF 10 Mission Assignment would authorize federal support for the full scope of what the storm left behind, from hazmat assessment to the recovery of displaced and sunken vessels, and the MAC team at the EOC is actively developing a plan to get it done.

Regarding recent reporting on the M/V Grand Marianas: the vessel is part of the broader salvage and recovery plan being developed under ESF 3 by the Multi-Agency Coordination team at the EOC. Salvage operations fall outside the U.S. Coast Guard’s mission and, as the vessel is not located in federal jurisdictional waters, the path forward rests with the appropriate state and federal partners already engaged through the MAC process. We are confident that coordination is well underway.

We also want to recognize the vessel owners and companies who engaged with us in good faith and took prompt action — that kind of cooperation is what makes recovery possible.

The U.S. Coast Guard remains committed to supporting the people of the CNMI and ensuring maritime safety and environmental protection throughout the recovery.
 
Photos: LT Perdomo and MST3 Ramos

Happy Mother’s Day weekend, Guam and CNMI! Before you head to the beach or out on the water, please take a moment to rea...
09/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day weekend, Guam and CNMI! Before you head to the beach or out on the water, please take a moment to read this — conditions this weekend require extra caution on two fronts.

The National Weather Service has a High Rip Current Risk in effect through Sunday afternoon for east-facing reefs across the Marianas. A strong trade swell, amplified by Tropical Storm Hagupit to our south-southwest, is driving dangerous swimming and surfing conditions along those beaches.

Rip currents don’t care how strong a swimmer you are — they can pull anyone away from shore fast. Please stay out of the water along east-facing reefs this weekend and keep a close eye on anyone around the beaches.

For anyone heading out on the water, we also want to remind you that VHF radio coverage across Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan remains limited in some areas following Typhoon Sinlaku. We are working hard to restore full coverage, but gaps remain. That means before you leave the dock, please make sure you’re carrying more than one way to call for help — a PLB, EPIRB, satellite communicator, or cell phone can make all the difference. And always, always tell someone ashore where you’re going and when to expect you back.

We also want to give a big thank you to our first responders and maritime partners who have been standing watch and relaying calls. Because VHF is line-of-sight, those ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore relays are critical right now, and we are grateful for every one of them.

Check https://www.weather.gov/gum/ or US National Weather Service Guam for the latest conditions.

Stay safe out there. Enjoy your families this weekend — and we’ll see you back home.

📸 CDR Epperson

This one’s a little more personal.Every mission we execute across this 2.6 million square nautical mile area of responsi...
08/05/2026

This one’s a little more personal.

Every mission we execute across this 2.6 million square nautical mile area of responsibility comes down to people. The crews aboard our cutters, the teams at Base, Sector, MSU, and Station Guam — the men and women of Team Guam who show up every day, in every sea state, for these communities and this region.

And behind all of them? The chiefs.
Today we celebrated one of the best.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Robert Davis, our command senior enlisted leader at Base Guam, pinned on master chief, joining the less than one percent of the U.S. Coast Guard who wear two stars and an anchor.

Watching it happen here, surrounded by the team he has led and cared for, felt right.

He came to the Marianas nine years ago, reporting to what was then MSD Saipan as a petty officer 1st class and marine science technician. Then making chief. He came to Sector Guam around the time of Typhoon Yutu and built our dedicated waterways division into something to be proud of, all while volunteering, stepping into leadership, and steadily earning the trust of everyone around him. He made senior chief. And when Base Guam stood up, he stepped into the CSEL role without missing a beat.

What made today even more special: his parents were with us on the beach. His father is a retired Coast Guard master chief. Before him, his father served as a senior chief and earned an appointment to chief warrant officer. Since 1951, there has been a Davis serving his peers and this nation in the U.S. Coast Guard.

That is not a legacy. That is a calling.
Master Chief Davis has lived out everything we talk about when we say People. Presence. Partnerships. He shows up on the deck plates and in the community. He advises leadership and advocates for the crew. He took care of us through more than one major typhoon and never made it look like a burden.

He will be with us a bit longer before heading to his next assignment in Alaska, and we are grateful.

Master Chief, from all of us at Team Guam: THANK YOU and congratulations!

Photos LT Muir

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