In Maryland, the Coast Guard said one man was rescued and two men were missing after a fishing vessel became disabled 15 miles east of Assateague Island.
The Coast Guard has closed the shipping channel for one nautical mile around the scene while fire and Coast Guard crews work on a plan to secure the heavily damaged barges.
The U.S. Coast Guard makes at least one annual safety inspection of ships operating in U.S. waters, regardless of the flag a ship flies, said a coast guard spokesman.
The Coast Guard sent three aircraft, one of them a rescue helicopter, to the scene after Bahamian authorities asked for help and recovered 11 bodies there, Rios said.
They also argued that coordinating key agencies like the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Customs under one department could minimize bureaucracy by eliminating overlap.
And let me just make one last comment about our Coast Guard and about our National Incident Coordinator, Thad Allen.
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Tulafono was on his way back home from Hawaii on Tuesday night on one of two U.S. Coast Guard transport planes delivering aid.
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The Coast Guard's efforts to come to grips with what was happening almost one mile below the surface of the sea were complicated by conflicting reports from remotely operated vehicles.
Asked about the possibility that the report could be a hoax, given that no one has come forward to identify a family as missing, the Coast Guard said that it operates under the assumption that such reports are legitimate.
Coast Guard records indicate that the same Seastreak ferry has been involved in prior crashes, including one in 2009 when the vessel slammed into a New Jersey dock and tore a 2- to 3-foot gash in the starboard bow of the vessel.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.
Teams from the Coast Guard, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and FBI that boarded the Margot recovered three shotguns and one handgun, officials said.
Two Coast Guard cutters were en route to the scene to help with search-and-rescue, with one expected to arrive later on Monday and the other expected on Tuesday, Parker said.
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