Waesche was commissioned in 2010, the second ship in the Legend Class, the Coast Guard's largest offshore maritime cutters at 418 feet long. It can hold a crew of nearly 150 and is used for maritime fisheries patrols, migrant and drug interdiction, search-and-rescue operations, and law enforcement.

The Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing guardsman Saturday after five days. Seaman Bryan Lee, 23, of Rancho Cordova, Calif., went missing from USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) Tuesday morning while the cutter was off the Pacific coast of Mexico,

Mexico’s navy is assisting with an offshore patrol vessel and a maritime patrol aircraft, according to the Coast Guard. “The search area and effort are vast, and the operation is being carefully coordinated to ensure maximum coverage and effectiveness,” the Coast Guard said in its release.

Search personnel in Alaska are trying to establish the location of a Textron Aviation Cessna 208 Caravan with 10 occupants which was declared overdue while operating to Nome on the Bering Sea coast. The Bering Air aircraft was transporting nine passengers,

The Coast Guard continues to search for a missing guardsman who went overboard on Tuesday while aboard USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) off the Pacific coast of Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. The cutter was conducting routine counter-drug patrolling approximately 300 nautical miles south of Mexico when the crew discovered that a guardsman was unaccounted for,