Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast | 08.16.2025
A small boat crew returns to USCGC Venturous (WMEC 625) following counter-drug operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Aug. 16, 2025. These operations continue the Coast Guard's efforts to protect the Homeland, project maritime law enforcement presence and disrupt transnational criminal organizations and cartels seeking to produce and traffic illicit drugs into the United States. (U.S. Coast......
Photo by Ensign Dev Craig | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 07.29.2024
A Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625) small boat crew arrives alongside a Haitian sailing vessel to investigate a potential migrant venture off the coast of Haiti on July 29, 2024. Venturous’ crew conducted a 60-day maritime safety and security patrol in the Windward Passage and Florida Straits. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Dev Craig)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 07.19.2024
Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625) conducts small boat operations in Canal de la Tortue, Haiti, July 19, 2024. Venturous’ crew conducted a 60-day maritime safety and security patrol in the Windward Passage and Florida Straits. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Alvin Cruz)...
Photo by Ensign Dev Craig | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 07.18.2024
Cadet 1/c Matt Lubin, Ensign Lillia Farlow, Cmdr. Karen Kutkiewicz, Petty Officer 2nd Class Reese Davidson, and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Midshipman Cole Hite observe the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous’ (WMEC 625) small boat crew conducting a transfer of detainees with the Coast Guard Cutter Forward (WMEC 911) in the Windward Passage on July 18, 2024. Venturous’ crew conducted a 60-day......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 07.01.2024
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625) lower a replacement Emergency Diesel Generator using a crane and pulley system on July 1, 2024, in Key West, Florida. The ship’s engineers worked to make the critical replacement in just 96 hours. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Anthony Medlar)...
Photo by Ensign Kristin Heinkel | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 11.09.2023
U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Patrick Mooneyham, a boatswain’s mate and officer of the deck assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625), oversees a helicopter in-flight refueling evolution off the coast of Key West, Florida, Nov. 9, 2023. Venturous is a 210-foot, Reliance-class medium endurance cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by......
Photo by Ensign Kristin Heinkel | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 10.21.2023
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625) secures an MH-65 helicopter to the flight deck while underway in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Oct. 21, 2023. Venturous is a 210-foot, Reliance-class medium endurance cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. j.g. Kristin N. Heinkel)...
Photo by Ensign Kristin Heinkel | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 09.26.2023
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Brenden Kelley, the executive officer of Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625) stands on the bridge during a southbound transit through the Panama Canal, Sept. 26, 2023. Venturous is a 210-foot, Reliance-class medium endurance cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Cmdr. Karen L. Kutkiewicz)...
