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Public Comments Sought on Changes to NOAAâââ€Å

Public Comments Sought on Changes to NOAA’s Civil Procedures NOAA’s Office of General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to its Civil Procedures. These procedures determine administrative proceedings for the assessment of civil penalties; suspension, revocation, modification or denial of permits; issuance of written warnings; and release or forfeiture […]

NOAA ACTIVATES 500TH OBSERVATION, REFERENCE STATION

NOAA ACTIVATES 500TH OBSERVATION, REFERENCE STATION The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announces the 500th site into its National Continuously Operating Reference Station network, which spans the United States, most of its territories and a few foreign countries. Administered under the NOAA Ocean Service’s National Geodetic Survey, each CORS site features a ground-based sensor that […]

KINGFISHER THE ENTANGLED RIGHT WHALE RE-SIGHTED OFF THE GEORGIA COAST

KINGFISHER THE ENTANGLED RIGHT WHALE RE-SIGHTED OFF THE GEORGIA COASTEndangered Animal Survives Entanglement, Appears Healthy Jan 13, 2005 — Kingfisher, the young male endangered North Atlantic right whale that was partially disentangled from fishing gear by a NOAA rescue team last March, was spotted off Cumberland, Ga., on Tuesday. NOAA team members and the Provincetown […]

COAST GUARD CONTINUES SEARCH FOR MISSING FISHING BOAT CREW MEMBER

COAST GUARD CONTINUES SEARCH FOR MISSING FISHING BOAT CREW MEMBER GALVESTON, Texas- Coast Guard rescue crews are continuing the search this morning for a missing crew member from the fishing vessel I Don’t Know, which capsized and partially sank Tuesday a half mile south of Grand Chenier, La. Missing is Belinda Sue Williams, 46, of […]

COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING FISHING BOAT CREWMEMBER

COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING FISHING BOAT CREWMEMBER GALVESTON, Texas- Coast Guard rescue crews are coordinating with locals in the search for a crewmember missing from a capsized fishing boat a half mile south of Grand Chenier, La., this evening. Coast Guard Group Galveston was notified at about 3:35 p.m. that the 39-foot fishing vessel […]

COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO FISHING VESSEL FIRE

COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO FISHING VESSEL FIRE BOSTON – The Coast Guard Cutter Spencer responded to a distress call from the 84-foot fishing vessel Patriots, with seven people aboard, stating they had an electrical fire in their engine room while offshore approximately 130 nautical miles east of Nantucket, Mass. at 6 p.m. today. The Spencer, […]

Dead Right Whale approximately 78 miles east of Nantucket

Dead Right Whale approximately 78 miles east of Nantucket BOSTON – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba  worked with NOAA officials to document a dead right whale 78 miles east of Nantucket, Mass., today. The cutter Escanaba, homeported in Boston, received a call from a NOAA surveillance plane reporting the dead right whale. […]

COAST GUARD DENIES ENTRY TO FOREIGN SHIP

COAST GUARD DENIES ENTRY TO FOREIGN SHIP NORFOLK, Va. – The Captain of the Port of Hampton Roads has denied entry to a foreign freight ship after a Coast Guard boarding team determined the master was intoxicated. A Coast Guard Sea Marshal team boarded the 214-foot General Lee, flagged in Panama, at 6 a.m. today […]

COAST GUARD RESCUES CREW FROM TUG FIRE IN ICW

COAST GUARD RESCUES CREW FROM TUG FIRE IN ICW HOUSTON– Coast Guard search and rescue crews from Station South Padre Island, Texas, rescued the four-man crew of the tugboat Wally Blessey that caught fire just before midnight Sunday in the Intracoastal Waterway in Port Isabel, Texas. The tug, pushing one barge carrying lube oil, had […]

PERSON MISSING FROM DOWNED HELICOPTER

PERSON MISSING FROM DOWNED HELICOPTERCoast Guard Coordinating Multi-Agency Search Efforts PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is coordinating local, state, and federal assets in a search effort this morning for a man missing from a downed helicopter in the Potomac River. A medical helicopter went down about 11:30 p.m. Monday in the river near the […]