COAST GUARD AIDES SHIPWRECKED MAINE FISHERMAN BOSTON – Crews from Station Chatham and Air Station Cape Cod searched today for two Maine fisherman who jumped overboard after their fishing trawler ran aground at Nauset Beach, Mass., and started taking on water. Ian Orchard and Micheal Darragh, both from Orland, Maine, abandoned the 39-foot scalloper, JOSEPHINE, […]
NATIONAL ICE CENTER CONFIRMS NEW ANTARCTIC ICEBERG March 24, 2006  An iceberg about the size of Martha’s Vineyard broke off from the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet, located along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern Weddell Sea near Antarctica. The National Ice Center, using visible satellite imagery […]
COAST GUARD MEDEVACS INJURED SAILOR PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A crewman with a broken leg onboard a cargo ship 270 miles east of Elizabeth City, N.C., was medevaced by the Coast Guard this afternoon. Thomas Nicholson, a 50-year-old United Kingdom resident, suffered a broken leg when the five ton piece of machinery he was working on […]
COAST GUARD REGULATORY COMMISSION TO HOLD JOINT PUBLIC MEETINGS ON PROPOSED LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS FACILITIES SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern New England and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are in the process of evaluating two Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import terminal proposals – one for the Oklahoma based Quoddy Bay […]
Reel Art contest winners announced A student from North Charleston recently took top honors as the overall winner in South Carolina’s 2006 Reel Art contest, a competition sponsored annually by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, Harry Hampton Memorial Wildlife Fund, Duke Power and Trout Unlimited’s Chattooga River Chapter. Entries were judged in Columbia at […]
More Ships to Leave Ghost Fleet Two more ships are leaving the James River, headed for disposal facilities in Virginia and Maryland, in what has become a regular occurrence since the Bush Administration took over management of the nation’s ship disposal program five years ago, the U.S. Maritime Administration announced. The Howard W. Gilmore is […]
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s 2006 Guy Bradley Award Special Agent Jack Baker, a criminal investigator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement in Washington, North Carolina, and Maj. Bruce Buckson, who serves as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) coordinator for manatee law enforcement, have received the National […]
American Scientific Societies weigh in on Endangered Species Debate This spring, it is anticipated that the U.S. Senate will consider changes to the Endangered Species Act (E.S.A.). Many of the proposed changes involve scientific issues and how science, research, and scientists advance the conservation of endangered plants and animals. Six scientific organizations developed and today […]
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEDICATES NEW HURRICANE-RESISTANT WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IN KEY WEST NOAA’s National Weather Service dedicated a new, hurricane-resistant weather forecast office in Key West, Fla., today. The new facility is designed to withstand wind speeds and storm surge levels associated with a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. “Florida took a terrible beating from four […]
VADM Lautenbacher testifies before House Resources Fisheries and Wildlife Subcommittee At a March 21st hearing in Gretna, LA, the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, U.S. Navy (Ret.) testified before the House Resources Fisheries and Wildlife Subcommittee (Chair Wayne Gilchrest, R-MD). The Vice Admiral spoke of NOAA’s role in the […]
