Safe Bopating Week – May 19th through May 25th In an effort to promote safe boating, National Safe Boating Week has been designated from May 19-25, 2007. During Safe Boating Week, the National Weather Service in cooperation with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and the United States Power Squadron will issue Safe Boating Week […]
COAST GUARD TO BEGIN REMOVAL OF BUOYS IN N.C. INLET PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Buoys 32 – 37 in Oregon Inlet Channel, N.C., are scheduled for removal by the Coast Guard by the end of the week due to heavy shoaling. Water depths in this part of the channel have become too shallow and dynamic for Coast […]
Circle Hook Requirement for Tournaments Suspended Until 2008 NOAA Fisheries has suspended the mandatory circle hook requirements for participants in Atlantic billfish fishing tournaments through December 31, 2007. The circle hook requirements will be reinstated without change on January 1, 2008. These regulations will require anglers fishing from Highly Migratory Species permitted vessels to use […]
SALVAGE OF SAILING VESSEL COMPLETE; C&D Canal open to all vessel traffic ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A commercial salvage company successfully raised the sailing vessel Heron from the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal at about 11:30 a.m., pumped out the remaining water and placed the vessel on a crane barge. Following a […]
BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANDr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M, Thursday, May 17, 2007, the following restrictions will apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15’N. Latitude):I. SIZE LIMIT It is unlawful to […]
Notice to Mariners C&D Canal Closed Until Further Notice PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The C&D canal linking Chesapeake and Delaware Bays has been closed while the while the Army Corps of Engineers removes a sunken sailing vessel involved in a collision last night. The canal was closed after a collision between the sailing vessel and the […]
CREWS BEGIN FOAM CLEANUP FORT MACON, N.C. – The unified command continues to move forward this morning in the cleanup of polystyrene foam that washed up on the shore Wednesday between Cape Lookout, N.C., and the North Carolina-Virginia border. 30 workers from Moran Environmental Recovery deployed from Davis, N.C. to Cape Lookout to begin picking […]
Coast Guard Searches 47,000 Nautical Miles for Four Missing Sailors PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard search continues tonight for four sailors onboard the sailing vessel Flying Colours who have been missing off the North Carolina coast since Monday morning. The search for the missing sailors, Patrick Topping, 39, Jason Franks, 34, Rhiannon Borisoff, 22 and […]
By Air and by Sea, Coast Guard Searches for Missing Boaters PORTSMOUTH, Va. – (May 10) An HC-130 long-distance search and rescue airplane from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., flies over the Cutter Tampa off the coast of North Carolina yesterday. The Tampa, homeported in Portsmouth, has been assisting air crews from Elizabeth […]
Styrofoam Packing Material Washes Ashore on North Carolina Beaches Morehead City, N.C.–Styrofoam packing material began washing ashore on the beaches of the North Carolina Outer Banks Wednesday afternoon as a result of a container ship encountering severe weather off the coast. The debris field ranges from Cape Lookout northward to the Virginia border. The most […]
