Coast Guard: Mission Critical

When a fisherman goes missing off the Florida coast, USCG Air Station Miami is tasked with the impossible; finding a 14-foot boat in a vast, churned up Atlantic Ocean.

In the cover of night, drug smugglers try to evade US counter narcotics intelligence, but darkness doesn't stop the United States Coast Guard from taking down the suspects.

In Florida, USCG Sector Key West receives a report of plane debris floating in the water. In a race against time, the search and rescue crew from Station Marathon follow clues scattered in the water and search for survivors.

Multiple US Coast Guard crews search for vessels in distress overtaken by powerful storms. In the Florida Keys, a sailboat calls the Coast Guard for help, and the only way to save the captain and his boat is by taking a leap of faith.

In Oregon, the United States Coast Guard Air Station crew navigate shoreline terrain to extract a stranded hiker clinging to the edge of a cliff. In the Florida Keys, Station Marathon personnel are called on to rescue a man and his dog stranded.

Sixty miles at sea off of Key West Florida, a family cruise takes a terrible turn when Air Station Miami is launched to rescue a six-year-old boy with a possible burst appendix.