coast guard
Sea rescue service
A coast guard is a maritime security and rescue organization, or a member of one.
Coast guards patrol territorial waters, enforce maritime law, conduct search-and-rescue operations, and assist vessels in distress.
The term applies generically to any nation's coastal patrol force: The coast guard responded to the distress call. (Capitalized Coast Guard refers specifically to the U.S. service branch.)
- lifeboatEmergency vessel for survivors
- distress signalsUrgent pleas for rescue
- maydayRadio emergency signal
- distress callUrgent plea for aid
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
rescue swimmer · helicopter · rescue · cutter · patrol boat · small boat · lifeguard · vessel · open water · rough seas · crew · interdiction · drug bust · icebreaker · emergency response · beacon · lighthouse · radar
- fisheries and coast guardfishing, patrol, rescue, boats, fish
- guardsguardian, bodyguard, protector, sentinel, sentry
- maritime communitysailors, fishermen, captain, crew, dock workers
- maritime operationsharbor patrol, naval patrols, patrol boats, patrol ships, cutters
- maritime patrolpatrol boat, marine patrol, harbor patrol, helicopter patrol, marine police
- maritimeships, ship, boat, boats, anchors
coast guardnavy
Maritime military force
blue-water navy · naval fleet · battle fleet · carrier strike group · merchant marine
guard, coast, guarded, coastal, guarding, coaster, coasting, coasted, seacoast