COAST GUARD REQUESTS DUCK HUNTERS TO WEAR LIFE JACKETS The changing of the fall colors usually marks the start of hunting season for waterfowl. The Coast Guard wants to let hunters know they are not exempt from boating accidents. In 2003, nearly 70% of boating accidents that occurred while hunting resulted in fatalities. “Many hunters […]
NOAA TO DELIVER FINAL LECTURE ON HUMAN NOISE AND MARINE MAMMALSCongressman Sam Farr Scheduled to Participate Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service and various academic institutions will deliver the final lecture in a national series on the subject of human-made noise and marine mammals. The final lecture of […]
SUN SENDS SOLAR STORMS TO EARTH Nov. 8, 2004  Eruptions from a large and complex sunspot group are sending a series of solar storms to Earth. The NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., is monitoring these storms, which have the potential to affect spacecraft operations, electric power systems, high frequency communications and electronic […]
FREIGHTER COLLIDES WITH OFFSHORE PLATFORM GALVESTON, Texas Crewmembers from Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Galveston are investigating the early morning collision of an outbound freighter and an offshore platform located approximately 17 miles off the coast of Galveston. At 3:15 a.m., Coast Guard watchstanders at Group Galveston received reports of a platform fire in the Gulf of […]
POSSIBLE NEW SPECIES OF SEA SQUIRTS DISCOVERED OFF GEORGIA COAST IN GRAY’S REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY Three previously unknown sea creatures have been found at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary by Georgia Southern University scientists working there to document all the invertebrates living at the sanctuary. The sanctuary is managed by NOAA. The creatures are […]
Operator Permits for the South Atlantic Rock Shrimp and Atlantic Dolphin and Wahoo Fisheries Beginning November 23, 2004, operator permit cards (operator cards) will be required for an operator of a vessel that has, or is required to have, a charter vessel/headboat or commercial vessel permit for Atlantic dolphin-wahoo. Operator cards have been required in […]
SETTLEMENT REACHED IN CASE OF NEGLIGENT PARASAIL OPERATOR TAMPA, Fla. – Representatives from the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office in Tampa will be holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. today at Parasail City in Clearwater Beach, Fla., to discuss the results of an administrative hearing last week between the Coast Guard and Alexander Widmann, […]
COAST GUARD MEDEVACS 10-WEEK-OLD GIRL PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard launched a rescue helicopter today at about 11 a.m. to Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, in an effort to save the life of a seriously ill 10-week-old girl. The girl is at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., but requires immediate treatment from […]
CRANE COLLAPSES CRUSHING BOATS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– A crane collapsed this morning causing damage to two boats and spilling diesel fuel into the water in Brigantine, N.J. The crane has spilled approximately 50 to 100 gallons of diesel fuel into the St. George Thoroughfare after landing on two pleasure crafts that were moored at the […]
NOAA ISSUES SERVICE ASSESSMENT REPORT ON HURRICANE ISABEL Nov. 3  NOAA’s National Weather Service today released an internal evaluation of its operations during Hurricane Isabel. The tropical cyclone caused extensive damage and loss of life in the Mid-Atlantic states in September 2003. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an agency of the […]
