International Migratory Bird Day While some of us might not know the difference between a great blue heron and a snowy egret, or a wood stork from a gull-billed tern, we love to see these graceful and beautiful creatures in flight along wind-capped waves, or silently hunting their prey, statue-like, mirrored on the glassy surface […]
RESEARCHERS TO USE INFRARED LASER-SCAN TO CREATE 3-D MODEL OF THE USS MONITOR’S TURRET AND STEAM ENGINE May 12, 2004  This week in Newport News, Va., The Mariners’ Museum and the NOAA Monitor National Marine Sanctuary are working with the National Park Service’s Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) to map the […]
Coast Guard searches for local Jacksonville diver off St. Marys, Ga. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew from Air Station Savannah, Ga., along with other search units in the area are searching for a local Jacksonville diver 66 miles east of St. Marys, Ga. The Coast Guard was notified at 5:08 p.m […]
RESEARCHERS TO USE INFRARED LASER-SCAN TO CREATE 3-D MODEL OF THE USS MONITOR’S TURRET AND STEAM ENGINETechnicians from National Park Service’s HABS/HAER offices to map artifacts beginning May 10th Beginning the week of May 10 in Newport News, Va., The Mariners’ Museum and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Monitor National Marine Sanctuary will […]
RS-2-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: RESEARCH SANCTUARY Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 2:00 P.M., Thursday, May 13, 2004, the following area is declared a RESEARCH SANCTUARY and IS CLOSED to all fishing equipment: I. AREA DESCRIPTION DARE COUNTY An area consisting of approximately 0.25 acres in Roanoke Sound […]
Lockwood Folly Inlet Survey Released 5-10-04 Download Your Copy HERE Lockwood Folly Inlet Survey Released 5-10-04 Download Your Copy HERE
COAST GUARD RE-OPENS MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR CARUTHERSVILLE MEMPHIS — The captain of the port at Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Memphis re-opened the Mississippi River to restricted traffic today near Caruthersville, Mo., after locating three sunken barges in the river. The captain reopened the river shortly after 5 p.m. today, to downbound traffic only, […]
COAST GUARD HIGHLIGHTS FISHING VESSEL SAFETY IN TEXAS, LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS – Coast Guard fishing vessel safety examiners are scheduled to conduct free voluntary dockside examinations of commercial fishing vessels Tuesday – Thursday in several ports in Texas and Louisiana. Examiners plan to be in Cameron, La., from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, and in the Port Arthur, […]
NOAA COMMISSIONS COASTAL RESEARCH SHIP NANCY FOSTER May 10, 2004  NOAA welcomed its new vessel, the NOAA ship Nancy Foster, into its fleet ofresearch and survey ships Monday during a traditional maritime ceremony in Charleston, S.C. “Over the past two years, NOAA has made it a priority to modernize its fleet of ships, and […]
Waycross, Ga. woman dead after vessel swamped by wave JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 39-year-old Waycross, Ga. woman is dead after the vessel she, her husband and three children were on was swamped by a wave and sank about two miles south of the Golden Isle Marina in Brunswick, Ga. about 12:45 today. A Good Samaritan, […]
