Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward Wargo | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 03.11.2025
Members of station South Padre Island conduct non-compliant vessel trainings near South Padre Island, Texas March 13, 2025. These trainings help to hone the crew's ability to conduct high speed boat maneuvers and counter a fleeing vessel's evasive tactics. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Edward Wargo...
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 12.29.2022
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew observes a Coast Guard Cutter Jacob Poroo law enforcement crew approaching a lancha illegally fishing in federal waters off southern Texas, Dec. 29, 2022. Coast Guard Station South Padre Island boat crews and the Coast Guard Cutter Jacob Poroo crew, in coordination with Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders and......
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan Dickinson | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 11.15.2022
Lt. Shane Gunderson, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Station South Padre Island, discusses the station’s crew and the key missions they perform in South Padre Island, Texas, Nov. 15, 2022. The station’s primary missions include search and rescue and maritime law enforcement, including combatting illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing occurring off the Texas coast. (U.S. Coast......
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 06.10.2022
A Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew observes a lancha boat illegally fishing in federal waters off southern Texas, June 9, 2022. The Coast Guard Cutter Daniel Tarr crew and a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island boat crew, in coordination with the Corpus Christi aircrew, located and stopped two lanchas with a total of six Mexican fishermen engaged in......
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 05.19.2022
A Coast Guard Cutter Harold Miller boat crew interdicts a lancha boat illegally fishing in federal waters off southern Texas, May 19, 2022. The Harold Miller crew, in coordination with a Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi aircrew, located and stopped two lanchas with a total of eight Mexican fishermen engaged in illegal fishing. (U.S. Coast Guard video, courtesy Sector/Air Station......
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Bounome Chanphouang | Department of War | 02.22.2019
Fifteen nations participated in Cutlass Express 2019, an exercise designed to improve regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness and information-sharing practices to increase capabilities between the U.S., and East African and Western Indian Ocean nations to counter illicit maritime activity....
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston | 03.13.2015
Air Station Corpus Christi and Station South Padre Island chase down a lancha fishing illegally in U.S. waters March 13, 2015. U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Corpus Christi....
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston | 06.01.2014
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard interdicted a Mexican fishing crew poaching in South Texas waters, Sunday, 30 miles offshore and 70 miles north of the U.S./Mexican border. At approximately 12:30 p.m., a 25-foot Mexican fishing boat, also known as a lancha, was spotted by a Coast Guard aircrew aboard a HU-25 Falcon jet, from Air Station Corpus Christi. The aircraft immediately......
