A missing swimmer’s body was recovered from the ocean by South Carolina rescue crews. The Pawleys Island swimmer was reported missing after bystanders tried to save him.

The team deployed around 7 a.m. Friday from Corpus Christi, about 200 miles south of where the Guadalupe River in Kerr County ...

Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan rescued nearly 200 people during his first mission over the weekend from floods that ...

Multiple units are on scene and a US Coast Guard helicopter is on the way as crews work to rescue a swimmer in distress off ...

Officials say a swimmer was reported in distress near Atlantic Avenue. An hour later, they confirmed a body had been pulled ...

A Coast Guard rescue swimmer made an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday morning, July 7, to discuss the ...

A 26-year-old New Jersey native is being hailed as a hero for his part in saving at least 165 people from Friday’s ...

On his first mission Scott Ruskan dropped into a biblical flood with nothing but a harness, grit, and the kind of calm ...

Scott Ruskan had only been a fully trained Coast Guard rescue swimmer for six months when he saved 165 campers from Camp ...

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Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan helped save 165 people after the Guadalupe River surged by more than 20 feet in less than two hours early Friday in Texas.