Coast Guard: Mission Critical

USCG is tasked with the impossible: finding a 14-foot boat in a vast Atlantic Ocean. In the Pacific, the USCG track down drug smugglers.

Smugglers try to evade US counter narcotics intelligence, high tides trap two hikers at sunset, and rescuers search for a man struggling in the water.

USCG Key West spots plane debris; Marathon's crew hunts for survivors. In the Pacific, USCGC Munro chases drug runners.

Crews search for vessels in distress overtaken by powerful storms, a sailboat calls for help, and a rookie rescue swimmer gets his first case.

The USGC extract a stranded hiker perilously clinging to the edge of a cliff and rescue a man and his dog stranded overnight on a small remote island.

A man on a cruise ship suffers a heart attack, an accident with a crab pot disables a sailboat, and storms sweep a family out to sea.

Three men and their dog are in distress offshore, the USCG trains with the canine explosives detection team, and brothers assist a fellow coast guard.

When Air Station Clearwater responds to a distress signal in the Gulf of Mexico, they find themselves in a standoff with the vessel in distress.

Air Station Miami performs their annual wet drills, then a look back at some of the seasonês cases, and the loss of one of their own.