COAST GUARD RESCUES 2 DIVERS PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The Coast Guard rescued two divers today after they were separated from their dive boat approximately 11 miles south of Panama City. The dive boat Tropical Sun reported the missing divers to the Coast Guard at approximately 9:35 a.m. while anchored near a wreck south of […]
RESEARCHERS PLAN AUGUST HUNT FOR INVASIVE LIONFISH OFF CAROLINA COAST July 16, 2004  NOAA scientists will lead a diving expedition off the North Carolina coast August 2-20 to learn more about a venomous predatory fish whose population appears to be growing in waters along Florida, North Carolina and Bermuda. The Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans, […]
COAST GUARD ASSISTS BOATERS TAKING ON WATER PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard assisted two boaters today when their boat began taking on water approximately 3.5 miles off of Ocean City inlet, Md. Around 6:20 p.m., the Coast Guard received a cell phone call from a person on a 25-foot Mako boat saying their boat […]
STUDY DETAILS DISTRIBUTION, IMPACTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE WORLD OCEANS July 15, 2004  An international team of scientists has completed the first comprehensive study of the ocean storage of carbon dioxide derived from human activity based on a decade-long survey of global ocean carbon distributions in the 1990s. The global survey combined measurements […]
NOAA SATELLITES HELP SAVE 54 LIVES DURING SPRING 2004 July 15, 2004  NOAA satellites, capturing distress signals from land, sea and air, were key in saving 54 lives in 27 potentially deadly situations throughout the United States from April to June. For the year, NOAA satellites have helped rescue 114 lives. By comparison, this […]
Jim Gale New Head of Law Enforcement for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southeast RegionJim Gale, a 12?year veteran of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, isthe new Special Agent in Charge of Law Enforcement in the Service’sSoutheast Region. Formerly the Special Agent in Charge of the Service’sDivision of Law Enforcement Operations in Washington, D.C., […]
COAST GUARD CHANGING ATLANTIC AREA COMMANDERVice Adm. retiring after 39 years of service PORTSMOUTH, Va.–A change of command and retirement ceremony is scheduled for the Coast Guard Atlantic Area commander Friday at 10 a.m. at Nauticus, the National Maritime Center, in Norfolk, Va. Coast Guard Commandant Thomas H. Collins will preside over the ceremony where […]
Dallas Harris Construction to discharge fill material Dallas Harris Construction to discharge fill material into 0.78 acres of Section 404 wetlands and waters adjacent and hydrologically connected to an unnamed tributary to Howe Creek, a tributary to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, associated with the construction of the Covil Crossing Residential Subdivision, located at the northern […]
NOAA MISSISSIPPI OFFICES PROVIDE EARLY LOOK AT GULF OF MEXICO ‘DEAD ZONE’ July 13, 2004  NOAA’s offices in Mississippi have formed a partnership to provide near-real-time data about dissolved oxygen from the seasonal hypoxic area, or “Dead Zone,” in the Gulf of Mexico. Hypoxia occurs when the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water […]
Pete Benjamin New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Field Supervisor in Raleigh, North Carolina Pete Benjamin, a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService, is the new Field Supervisor of the Service’s Ecological ServicesField Office in Raleigh, North Carolina. Formerly Assistant FieldSupervisor of the Jacksonville, Florida Ecological Services office,Benjamin began his new duties on July 12. […]
