Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward Wargo | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 03.26.2025
Members of Station South Padre Island conduct non-compliant vessel training (NCVT) March 20, 2025 near South Padre Island, Texas. These training exercises help crews maintain a mission-ready status for migrant and narcotics interdiction events. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Edward Wargo...
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 04.09.2024
An HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi monitors Mexican lancha crews observed illegally fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line offshore Texas April 9, 2024. A Coast Guard Station South Padre Island 33-foot Special Purpose Craft–Law Enforcement crew interdicted two lanchas, seized 460 pounds of illegally caught red snapper and three sharks, and......
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 09.30.2023
A 36-foot Special Purpose Craft—Law Enforcement II boat crew from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island circles around a lancha about 25 miles offshore southern Texas, Sept. 30, 2023. The Coast Guard crew interdicted the lancha, seized about 200 pounds of illegally caught red snapper, detained four Mexican fishermen, and transferred them to U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for......
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 07.12.2023
A 33-foot Special Purpose Craft—Law Enforcement boat crew from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island interdicts a lancha with four Mexican fishermen engaged in illegal fishing approximately 29 miles off the southern Texas coast, July 12, 2023. The boat crew found one shark on board and seized approximately 660 pounds of red snapper from the fishermen. (U.S. Coast Guard video, courtesy......
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 01.20.2023
A Coast Guard Station South Padre Island 33-foot Special Purpose Craft–Law Enforcement crew approaches and observes a seized lancha sinking off the southern Texas coast, Jan. 20, 2023. The boat crew interdicted the lancha, which was sinking upon arriving on scene, and transferred the four Mexican fishermen aboard to Customs and Border Protection agents ashore for processing. (U.S. Coast......
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, describes the station, its crew and the missions they perform in South Padre Island, Texas, Nov. 15, 2022. Station South Padre Island is located along the Texas coast, just 6 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border and is the southernmost station in the Eighth Coast Guard District. (U.S. Coast Guard video by......
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 | 12.06.2019
A Coast Guard Station South Padre Island 33-foot Special Purpose Craft–Law Enforcement boat crew member releases a sea turtle into the ocean after spotting and rescuing it from an illegal gill net near South Padre Island, Texas, Dec. 6, 2019. Gill nets, which are illegal in all Texas waters, can capture and trap many different marine species, including sea turtles, causing them to drown.......
