U.S. Coast Guard Produces New Safety Brochure Children and Personal Watercraft The U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Boating Safety has recently produced a new safety brochure titled “Children and Personal Watercraft” that is now available to the public. This brochure places the essential information that parents and/or adult supervisors of children need to know before […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES 2 PEOPLE NEAR CEDAR KEY CEDAR KEY, Fla. – A rescue crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater rescued two people from the water approximately 30-nautical-miles off Cedar Key today. Coast Guard Sector Mobile and Sector St. Petersburg received a mayday call at about 4:30 a.m. today from the vessel H.D. Mitchell […]
LIFE RING FROM MIN FLICKA FOUND BOSTON -The fishing vessel Hedy Brenna’s crew today gave Coast Guard investigators a life ring with the name “Min Flicka” they recovered from the waters 75 miles south of Nantucket yesterday. The Hedy Brenna, a 70-foot lobster boat from Newport, R.I., recovered the orange 24-inch ring at 4:45 p.m. […]
Wildlife Resources Commission Seeks Conservation Award Nominations RALEIGH, N.C. (March 17, 2006) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is accepting nominations for the first Thomas L. Quay Wildlife Diversity Award. The newly created award will recognize an individual for outstanding contributions to wildlife diversity conservation in North Carolina. Presentation of the award will take place […]
GSA, NOAA AND OPUS BREAK GROUND FOR NOAA CENTER FOR WEATHER AND CLIMATE PREDICTIONNew Facility to be Centerpiece of the University of Maryland’s M-Square Research and Technology Park WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. General Services Administration, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Opus East, L.L.C., broke ground today for the NOAA […]
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA): Modify National Boating Education Standard 2.3 to ensure that boating safety education courses adequately discuss high-risk boating populations, boats, and boating activities and present detail about the current range of personal flotation device technologies available. (M-06-3) http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2006/M06_3.pdf The National […]
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Marine Retailers Association of America: Develop a marketing strategy that promotes the increased use of personal flotation devices, and integrate that strategy into the promotion and sale of boats and accessories. (M-06-4) http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2006/M06_4.pdf The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Marine Retailers Association of America: Develop […]
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the U.S. Coast Guard: Develop measures of recreational boating activities, boaters, and boats that can be used to identify and evaluate the risks in recreational boating. Once those measures have been developed, collect the appropriate data at the Federal and State levels, and use it to evaluate the effectiveness of recreational boating […]
Marine Fisheries Commission River Herring (FMP) Advisory Committee The Marine Fisheries Commission River Herring (FMP) Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, March 22, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Hatchery, located at 1104 West Queen Street, Edenton, NC. The committee will receive a presentation on […]
COAST GUARD TALL SHIP ARRIVES IN SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, Ga. – The EAGLE is a 295-foot, 1824-ton, steel-hull, three-masted sailing vessel and the only active tall ship in U.S. government service arrived here yesterday. It has been training future Coast Guard officers for more than half a century and, despite being 19th Century technology, EAGLE continues […]
