Category: VA

UNITED STATES REITERATES ITS OPPOSITION TO SCIENTIFIC WHALING AND ASKS JAPAN NOT

UNITED STATES REITERATES ITS OPPOSITION TO SCIENTIFIC WHALING AND ASKS JAPAN NOT TO EXPAND ITS LETHAL RESEARCH PROGRAMRequest Comes Three Weeks Before International Whaling Commission Meets In Korea June 2, 2005 — The United States has asked Japan to end its program of lethal “scientific” whaling. The request comes just days before Japan is expected […]

NOAA UNVEILS â€ËÅÃ

NOAA UNVEILS ‘STORM TRACKER’ TO FOLLOW TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES June 1, 2005 — As the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway, NOAA today introduced a new way to follow specific tropical storms or hurricanes. NOAA Storm Tracker will contain live links to advisories, tracking maps and satellite images of a particular storm that is […]

NOAA ISSUES 2005 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON OUTLOOK

NOAA ISSUES 2005 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON OUTLOOKAnother Above Normal Season Expected  NOAA hurricane forecasters are predicting another above-normal hurricane season on the heels of last year’s destructive and historic hurricane season. “NOAA’s prediction for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season is for 12 to15 tropical storms, with seven to nine becoming hurricanes, of which three to […]

DISESTABLISHMENT CEREMONY SET FOR USCG GROUP CAPE HATTERAS

DISESTABLISHMENT CEREMONY SET FOR USCG GROUP CAPE HATTERAS PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A ceremony to disestablish Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras is scheduled for Friday at 10 a.m. at the Dare County Fessenden Center, followed by the dedication of the John Homan Ball Field. Speakers for the ceremony will be Rear Admiral Sally Brice-O’Hara, Commander Fifth […]

NTSB TO RELEASE FACTUAL REPORTS ON TAKI-TOOO CAPSIZING IN OREGON

NTSB TO RELEASE FACTUAL REPORTS ON TAKI-TOOO CAPSIZING IN OREGONWASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of its continuing investigation into the capsizing of the small passenger charter fishing vessel Taki-Tooo in the Pacific Ocean near the entrance to Tillamook Bay, Oregon, the National Transportation Safety Board will open a public docket and release a series of […]

COAST GUARD UNVEILS NEWEST ASSET FOR MISSIONS

COAST GUARD UNVEILS NEWEST ASSET FOR MISSIONS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.- Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-2), Chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sub-Committee, Vice Adm. Vivien S. Crea, Commander, Atlantic Area and Maritime Defense Zone Atlantic, Rear Adm. Sally Brice O’Hara, Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District and Dale P. Bennett, President, Integrated Coast Guard […]

Your Tax Dollars and NC Marine Patrol at Work

We (the Cape Fear Blue Water Fishing Club) have asked for rebuttal and/or explanation from the NC Marine Patrol.  This letter was forwarded from my club email account. Hello. Thought I would share a very unhappy experience. My wife had an emergency call from the North Carolina Marine Patrol about our 36 foot Hatteras and […]

WWII Greenland and Patrol Honored

WWII Greenland and Patrol Honored New London, Conn. – To remember the sacrifice and dedication of the WWII Greenland Patrol (1940-45), the U. S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol, the Coast Guard Foundation, a representative from the USCGC Escanaba, and the Direct Commission Officer Class 2-05 will join together at the Greenland Patrol Memorial near […]

MAN CRUSHED BY DREDGE RESCUED BY COAST GUARD

MAN CRUSHED BY DREDGE RESCUED BY COAST GUARD ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– A man onboard a fishing vessel was medevaced by Coast Guard this morning after being crushed by a dredge off the coast of Atlantic City, N.J. Robert Chase, 54, was taken to Atlantic City Trauma Center in Atlantic City, N.J., by a Coast Guard […]

States Schedule Public Meetings to Gather Comment on Draft Addendum XVII to the

States Schedule Public Meetings to Gather Comment on Draft Addendum XVII to the Summer Flounder FMPWashington, DC – The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea BassManagement Board approved Draft Addendum XVII to the Summer FlounderFishery Management Plan for public comment and review. The Draft Addendumproposes a program that allows the Board to subdivide the […]