Authorities have identified the man who drowned off Pawleys Island Sunday while trying to rescue swimmers believed to have been caught in a rip current.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan rescued nearly 200 people during his first mission over the weekend from floods that ...

The team deployed around 7 a.m. Friday from Corpus Christi, about 200 miles south of where the Guadalupe River in Kerr County ...

A 26-year-old New Jersey native is being hailed as a hero for his part in saving at least 165 people from Friday’s ...

Multiple units are on scene and a US Coast Guard helicopter is on the way as crews work to rescue a swimmer in distress off ...

Scott Ruskan had only been a fully trained Coast Guard rescue swimmer for six months when he saved 165 campers from Camp ...

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RNLI lifeguard Seb Bartlett, who was swimming, noticed two or three swimmers being pulled out by a rip current and ...

Navy rescue swimmer Peter Lagosh hoists another Navy rescue swimmer into an MH-60S assigned to the “Dragon Whales” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, attached to the hospital ship USNS ...

Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan saved 165 people during his first rescue operation amidst devastating Texas floods on ...