Category: VA

NOAA SCIENTISTS CONTINUE NATIONWIDE LECTURE SERIES ON HUMAN NOISE IMPACT TO MARI

NOAA SCIENTISTS CONTINUE NATIONWIDE LECTURE SERIES ON HUMAN NOISE IMPACT TO MARINE MAMMALS The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and scientists from various academic institutions are sponsoring a free national lecture series on marine mammals and human noise. They will hold the second lecture in Boston […]

Fort Fisher NEW Hours?

Fort Fisher Hours to change? I am sure some of you have heard all the hoopla over the restriction of the hours at “The South End” (Fort Fisher Recreation Area). We have it from a pretty good source that the hours are going to change. Here is a listing of the NEW hours… December – […]

Explorer Who Discovered Titanic Returns on Urgent Mission to Investigate Endange

Explorer Who Discovered Titanic Returns on Urgent Mission to Investigate Endangered Wreck Television Event Originates from Expedition Led by Dr. Robert Ballard and Will Include First Live Underwater Broadcast from R.M.S. Titanic WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ — The most famous shipwreck in modern history, the R.M.S. Titanic continues to captivate our imagination and to draw […]

Proposed Security Zones, Regulated Navigation Areas for G-8 Summit

Proposed Security Zones, Regulated Navigation Areas for G-8 Summit SAVANNAH, Ga – The Coast Guard in conjunction with the upcoming G-8 Summit proposed the creation of two temporary security zones and two regulated navigation areas to provide for the safety and security of the public, G-8 Summit participants and the safety of the waterways from […]

U.S. COAST GUARD LOCATES MISSING BOATERS

U.S. COAST GUARD LOCATES MISSING BOATERS NEW ORLEANS – A U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., jet crew located two missing boaters aboard their capsized vessel about 60 miles southeast of Cape San Blas, Fla., at 4 p.m. today. Kenneth Heybrock, 49, and his son Joshua, 18, of High Point, N.C., left for […]

COAST GUARD TO BEGIN INTERNATIONAL PORT SECURITY VISITS

COAST GUARD TO BEGIN INTERNATIONAL PORT SECURITY VISITS WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard today announced the establishment of an International Port Security Program that will help the United States and its maritime trading partners better protect the global shipping industry by facilitating the implementation of security improvements in ports around the world. The Coast […]

NASCAR BUSCH SERIES DRIVER TO VISIT PORTSMOUTH COAST GUARD UNITS

NASCAR BUSCH SERIES DRIVER TO VISIT PORTSMOUTH COAST GUARD UNITSJustin Labonte Scheduled to Run Shield of Freedom #44 at RIR May 14 PORTSMOUTH, VA – Justin Labonte, driver of the 2004 Team Coast Guard Racing/Labonte Motorsports “Shield of Freedom” #44 NASCAR Busch Series car, will visit Coast Guard units here April 19. Labonte will get […]

7 PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM A NATURAL GAS PLATFORM

7 PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM A NATURAL GAS PLATFORM HOUSTON – The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Steelhead evacuated seven people from a natural gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles off Matagorda, Texas, Wednesday evening. At 8:53 p.m. Coast Guard Group Corpus Christi received a call from painters working on the […]

NOAA REPORTS THIRD WARMEST MARCH ON RECORD FOR CONTIGUOUS U.S.

NOAA REPORTS THIRD WARMEST MARCH ON RECORD FOR CONTIGUOUS U.S.Drought Continued to Affect Much of the West April 14, 2004 — Virtually all parts of the contiguous United States experienced warmer-than-average temperatures in March 2004, according to scientists at the NOAA Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The West, Southeast and parts of the Northeast […]

Bogue Inlet Survey

Bogue Inlet Survey Released 04-15-04 Download your COPY HEREBogue Inlet Survey Released 04-15-04 Download your COPY HERE