COAST GUARD TO PRESENT MERITORIOUS PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is scheduled to present the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award to a motor vessel crew in a 2 p.m. ceremony at the Pacific Gulf Marine office in Gretna, La., Wednesday. Michael R. Frye, captain of the motor vessel Resolve, and […]
Testimony by Admiral James D. Watkins, U.S. Navy (Retired), Chairman, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on April 22, 2004 Commission Chairman retired Admiral James D. Watkins, USN, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the Senate Appropriations Committee on April […]
NOAA SEEKS COMMENTS ON AIR FORCE’S PROPOSAL TO CONDUCT WEAPONS TESTSTests May Adversely Affect Marine Mammals The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) is seeking comments on a proposed authorization for the U.S. Air Force to conduct activities that may have incidental impacts on marine mammals in […]
NOAA OFFERS NEW GEODESY EDUCATIONAL DISCOVERY KIT April 27, 2004  A new online educational product, titled “Discovery Kits” is now available at the NOAA Web site. The kits were developed by the NOAA Ocean Service. The kit explains geodesyâ€â€ÂÂÂthe science that measures and monitors the size and shape of the Earth and identifies points […]
Safety Issues Result in Vessel Voyage Termination BARNEGAT LIGHT, NJ A commercial fishing vessel voyage was terminated early this morning by the Coast Guard for failure to comply with safety regulations. The Chargers, a 59-foot scalloping vessel homeported in Barnegat Light, NJ, was boarded this at 12:18 a.m. by a Coast Guard 41-foot patrol boat […]
Fifth Coast Guard District LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENTApril 20, 2004 NC – NEUSE RIVER TO MYRTLE GROVE – SHOALING There has been a report of shoaling to an approximate depth of 4 feet MLW in the vicinity of Bogue Sound Daybeacon 32 (LLNR 38980) Mariners are urged to use extreme caution when transiting […]
April 24, 2004 Friends of the South End We held our second protest today. WECT Channel 6 covered the protest as well as Willard Killough, the editor of the Island Gazette, who spent the day with us as well. South District Parks Superintendent Jud Burns came over to us and offered us the use of […]
Rhode Island woman medevaced from yacht off Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Coast Guard Station Mayport rescue boat crew medevaced a 24-year-old Rhode Island woman from the 180-foot yacht Grand Mariner about 2:18 a.m. today 12 miles east of Mayport, Fla. Lyndsay Sears, 24 of Warwick, R.I., was dehydrated and vomiting blood. Concerned for Sears’ […]
COAST GUARD SUFFERS FIRST COMBAT DEATH SINCE VIETNAM PORTSMOUTH, VA – U.S. Coast Guard Damage Controlman Third Class Nathan B. Bruckenthal, 24, from Smithtown, N.Y., died from injuries sustained when a small boat exploded as he and six other coalition sailors attempted to board it near the Iraqi Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal Saturday. Injured […]
47 COUNTRIES, EUROPEAN COMMISSION AGREE TO TAKE “PULSE OF THE PLANET”Milestone Summit Launches Plan to Revolutionize Understanding of How Earth Works April 26, 2004  Recognizing that Earth’s most pressing problems know no geographic boundaries, ministers of 47 nations and the European Commission agreed Sunday to develop pioneering global architecture that will, over the next […]
