SAILORS ABANDON SHIP 400 MILES OFF VIRGINIA COAST PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A local Coast Guard command center is coordinating the rescue efforts today of two men in a life raft approximately 400 miles east of Virginia Beach, Va. Thomas Tighe, from Patterson, N.Y., and Lochlin Reidy, from Woodbridge, Conn., abandoned their 45-foot sailing vessel, Almeisan, […]
TWO SAILORS PLUCKED FROM ROUGH SEAS PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard helicopter pulled two men from the water this morning 55 nautical miles east of Cape Lookout, N.C., after encountering rough weather and taking on water. Robert Cummings, 40, the vessel owner from Newport News, Va., and Jerry McCarthy, 35, from Charleston, S.C., left […]
Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee (AC) The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee (AC) will meet on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Department of Natural Resources, Washington Regional Office, Washington, NC.The committee will continue reviewing draft fact-finding document sections pertaining to […]
NOAA Hosts Chesapeake Bay Integrated Research Symposium On April 27-28, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) hosted the 7th annual Chesapeake Bay Integrated Research Symposium in Laurel, MD. Topics included: Status of Bay stocks and fisheries, including oyster, striped bass and softshell clam Monitoring and modeling of multiple species in the Bay Research studies on […]
Results of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Tagging Study Published A team of researchers led by Dr. Barbara Block has reported on the results of extensive electronic tagging studies of Atlantic bluefin tuna. The exciting findings were published in last week’s issue of Nature; NOAA has provided funding to support the research of Dr. Block and colleagues […]
NOAA TRANSFERS MAPPING SHIP TO MEXICAN NAVY May 3, 2005  NOAA <http://www.noaa.gov> transferred ownership of Whiting, a decommissioned hydrographic survey ship, to the Mexican Navy upon authority of Congress and by order of the Secretary of Commerce. The transfer took place during a special ceremony at Town Point Park, Otter Berth, in Norfolk, […]
CAPE MAY CUTTER RESCUES 132 MIGRANTS FROM 50-FOOT BOAT ATLANTIC CITY – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dependable repatriated 132 Haitian migrants to Port-au-Prince this morning at 10:00. The migrants were rescued from their dangerously overloaded 50-foot sail freighter after five days at sea 10 miles south of West Caicos Island in the […]
NOAA SCIENTISTS BATTLE OCEAN GHOSTNETS April 29, 2005  Thousands of miles from any human habitation, fishing nets hundreds of meters long and balls of net tens of meters across, lost or abandoned by their former owners but still an environmental hazard, foul huge swaths of the Pacific Ocean. However, the sheer mass of those […]
NOAA READJUSTS THE NATIONAL SPATIAL REFERENCE SYSTEM USING HIGH ACCURACY GPS DATA Beginning in June 2005, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will perform a general readjustment of the horizontal position and ellipsoidal heights in the National Spatial Reference System using high accuracy global positioning system data. The NSRS is a consistent national coordinate system […]
House Transportation Committee Reports Delaware River Bill Incorporating Changes Requested by NOAA: On April 27th, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (Chair Don Young, R-AK) reported unanimously HR 1412, the Delaware River Protection Act. The bill would amend the Ports and Waterways Safety Act so that the Coast Guard is notified of waterway obstacles and […]
