Coast Guard investigates collision FOURCHON, La. – Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Morgan City, La., is investigating an incident in which the 151-foot crew boat HILDA MCCALL collided with an un-manned oil platform in South Timbalier block 111A in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday. Coast Guard investigates collision FOURCHON, La. – Coast Guard Marine Safety […]
NEW ICEBERG BREAKS OFF OF LARSEN ICE SHELF Feb. 4, 2005  A new iceberg, about twice the size of Dallas, Texas, has formed in the frigid waters around Antarctica, according to the National Ice Center in Suitland, Md. This latest development comes just three weeks after the world’s largest iceberg, which measured the size […]
Fifth Coast Guard District LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS Coastal Waters From Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to Little River, South Carolina MONTHLY EDITION February 01, 2005 I. SPECIAL NOTICES: This section contains information of Special concern to the Mariner. NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE MIGRATION – ENCOUNTER REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR THE SEVERELY ENDANGERED […]
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to Meet in Alexandria, VA; February 7-10 Topics on the agenda for this meeting include the management of Atlantic herring, summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, red drum, striped bass, eel, lobster and Atlantic menhaden, weakfish, and horseshoe crab. There will be opportunities for public comment. Select “Read More” […]
Request for Proposals, Large Whale Gear Competition; Due February 15 The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), in cooperation with NOAA Fisheries Service, the Northeast Consortium, and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, recently announced a Request for Proposals for the Large Whale Gear Competition. This project supports the development of innovative fishing gear and/or […]
USCG Removes Buoys in Heavily Shoaled N.C. Inlets ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. – The Coast Guard removed the navigational buoys from Lockwood’s Folly Inlet Thursday and plans to remove the navigational buoys from New River Inlet Tuesday because these North Carolina inlets have become too shallow for buoy tenders to safely operate.The movement of sand and […]
Deputy Undersecretary to Testify before Senate Commerce Committee on the Status of the U.S. Tsunami Warning System The Deputy Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere BG John (Jack) J. Kelly, Jr., USAF (Ret.), will testify on the status of the U.S. tsunami warning system before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (Chair Ted Stevens, R-AK) […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES 4 AFTER CAPE MAY BOAT ABLAZE BOSTON – A helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod rescued four fisherman from the Cape May based fishing boat, Enterprise, two miles east of Nantucket at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday night. Crew members from the Enterprise, a 72-foot fishing vessel, contacted the Coast Guard […]
USCG Finds Distressed Mariners PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard found four people in a life raft approximately 60 miles southeast of Bermuda today at approximately 6:15 p.m. The Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center in Portsmouth received a signal from an emergency position indicating radio beacon at about 10 a.m. from the pleasure craft Emilen […]
COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL TAKING ON WATER OFF CHARLOTTE HARBOR ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Crews from Coast Guard Station Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., and the Coast Guard Cutter Marlin responded this afternoon as the Placida Queen, a 68-foot fishing vessel with 24 people on board began […]
