US Coastguard Guarding ... Bahrain

The BBC carried the following at then end of an article about a capsized boat off the coast of Bahrain:

US divers and small naval craft from the US 5th Fleet also joined the rescue efforts.

"We were nearby - it happened about one mile east of where we're headquartered so as soon as we got the call we immediately started to move our people and our boats to that area within probably about 15 or 20 minutes," Commander Jeff Breslau, spokesman for the US 5th Fleet, told the BBC.

"We provided a US Coastguard cutter, along with 16 divers, one helicopter in the air and another on standby in order to support whatever the Bahrainis needed for the effort," he said.

A US Coastguard cutter? Off the coast of Baharin? Hmmmmm ...

I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation.