Category: SFL

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ENDORSES ADMINISTRATIONâââÃ

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ENDORSES ADMINISTRATION’S PROPOSAL FOR UNIVERSAL SALTWATER ANGLER REGISTRATION The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has presented NOAA with preliminary findings of a study to improve the agency’s scientific program for recreational marine fisheries. NRC’s primary recommendation supports the administration’s call for a universal angler registration program […]

Senate Commerce Disaster Prevention Subcommittee Holds Polar Satellite Hearing:

Senate Commerce Disaster Prevention Subcommittee Holds Polar Satellite Hearing: On March 30th, the Senate Commerce Disaster Prevention and Prediction Subcommittee (Chairman Jim DeMint, R-SC) held an oversight hearing on the delays and cost overruns of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The Air Force and NOAA are jointly funding the NPOESS program, which […]

Vessel Sinks With 28 Aboard, USCG Investigating

Vessel Sinks With 28 Aboard, USCG Investigating CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard is leading the investigation into a vessel that sank in the Calibogue Sound, S.C., at about 1:45 p.m. today with 28 people aboard. The Coconut Woman, a touring vessel with 28 people aboard, sank do to an undetermined reason. A good-Samaritan picked […]

HUMPBACK WHALE FREED FROM LIFE-THREATENING ENTANGLEMENT

HUMPBACK WHALE FREED FROM LIFE-THREATENING ENTANGLEMENT Ponce Inlet, Fla.—Researchers rescued a juvenile humpback whale, entangled in rope Sunday off the east coast of Florida, saving its life. Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) carried out the rescue with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and […]

THREE HOISTED TO SAFETY AFTER VESSEL RUNS AGROUND

THREE HOISTED TO SAFETY AFTER VESSEL RUNS AGROUND ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– Three recreational boaters were hoisted to safety by the Coast Guard last night after running aground in the Maurice River. New Jersey State Police reported in to the Coast Guard at 7:10 pm yesterday that an 18-foot Regal Bow Rider boat with a family […]

U.S. COAST GUARD ASSISTS IN BAHRAIN SEARCH AND RESCUE

U.S. COAST GUARD ASSISTS IN BAHRAIN SEARCH AND RESCUE MANAMA, Bahrain – The crew of the 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Wrangell is supporting rescue efforts of a vessel that capsized off the coast here. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet crews responded immediately at approximately 10:15 p.m. Thursday after learning that a vessel capsized […]

COAST GUARD RESCUES KAYAKERS ON CHARLESTON HARBOR

COAST GUARD RESCUES KAYAKERS ON CHARLESTON HARBOR CHARLESTON, S.C. – Two people were rescued today after their kayak capsized approximately one-mile southwest of the Charleston Harbor Marina at about 1:20 p.m. A group of kayakers called rescue coordinators at Sector Charleston to report that John Matucis and Giulio Pertile, both from Cambridge, Mass., had gone […]

COAST GUARD SAVES GROUNDED FISHING VESSEL

COAST GUARD SAVES GROUNDED FISHING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Station Point Allerton 47-foot motor life boat crew dewatered and towed the grounded fishing vessel Guardian from Grave’s Light to safety at Boston’s Fish Pier today. Coast Guard Sector Boston received a report that the 71-foot fishing vessel homeported in Boston, with four crewmembers […]

NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE RELEASES NECROPSY REPORT

NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE RELEASES NECROPSY REPORTCause of 2005 Marine Mammal Strandings Unclear March 30, 2006 — The NOAA Fisheries Service released necropsy results taken from stranded marine mammals off the coast of North Carolina in January 2005. Despite extensive testing, no single cause of the stranding and death of the marine mammals has been identified. […]

Safety Recommendation M-06-5 through -9

Safety Recommendation M-06-5 through -9 The National Transportation Safety Board makes the following safety recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard: Revise regulations to require that passenger capacity for domestic passenger vessels be calculated based on a statistically representative average passenger weight standard that is periodically updated. (M-06-5) Identify a method for determining the maximum safe […]