Safety Duties of the U.S. Coast Guard

The Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection directs coordinated national and international regulatory programs for commercial vessel safety, port safety and security, and marine environmental protection.

For more information visit the U.S. Coast Guard website.

Coast Guard's Deepwater Mission

The Coast Guard operates in all of our nation's maritime regions - inland, coastal, and deepwater. Unlike Coast Guard operations in coastal and inland waterways, deepwater missions typically require a long-term, continuous, on-scene presence, often with deployments away from home stations for several months on end. Deepwater missions also demand the ability to operate in severe environments--from Arctic to tropical and equatorial climates--24 hours a day, every day, wherever the demands of national security require the Coast Guard's humanitarian, law enforcement, or military presence. Overall, the Coast Guard performs fourteen statutorily mandated missions in the deepwater regions around the globe, which fall into four main categories--Maritime Law Enforcement, Maritime Safety, National Defense, and Marine Environmental Protection.

For more information visit the Deepwater Mission section of the U.S. Coast Guard's website.