NTSB DETERMINES IMPROPERLY INSTALLED FUEL-INJECTION LINE CAUSED FIRE ON A SMALL PASSENGER VESSEL IN FLORIDA IN 2004 Washington, DC — The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that the probable cause of the fire on board the Shuttle Express II was a fractured, improperly installed fuel-injection line on the inboard side of the starboard engine […]
Anticipated 48th Annual T-Shirt On Sale Now! The much-anticipated 48th Annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament T-shirts have been released and are on sale now in various retail outlets in Carteret County. Twenty-five area retailers have the shirts in stock now including Major Sponsor, Outer Banks Outfitters/Boater’s World in Atlantic Beach. “They are really selling […]
Senate Appropriations Committee Provides NOAA $1.16 Billion: On April 4th, the Senate Appropriations Committee (Chairman Thad Cochran, R-MS) provided $1.16 billion to NOAA as part of the FY ’06 Emergency Supplemental (HR 4939). According to a Committee press release, the NOAA funds are to be used for “mapping and debris removal in the Gulf of […]
COAST GUARD AND PARTNERS SEARCH FOR MISSING BOAT MECHANIC ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. – The Coast Guard and local agencies are searching the Bay River for a missing 30-year-old Bayboro man tonight. The owner of a 15-foot Scout vessel notified Coast Guard Sector North Carolina at 4:15 p.m. that his mechanic was missing when he noticed […]
DENNIS, KATRINA, RITA, STAN AND WILMA “RETIRED” FROM LIST OF STORM NAMESInternational Committee Selects Replacement Names for 2011 List April 6, 2006  Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma, all from the historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, were “retired” by an international hurricane committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which includes the NOAA National […]
NOAA / NSF CRUISE REVEALS IMPACTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Data collected from ocean sampling in the Pacific Ocean from the southern to northern hemispheres confirms that the oceans are becoming more acidic. A recently completed field study from Tahiti to Alaska collecting data about the effects of ocean […]
COAST GUARD FINDS MISSING FISHERMAN DECEASED Atlantic Beach, N.C. – Lawrence Tate, 72, of Belhaven, N.C., was found deceased today at 4:35 p.m. at Woodstock Point and the mouth of Pungo Creek by a good Samaritan. At 8:30 a.m. Monday, Sector North Carolina received a report of an unmanned, 35-foot fishing vessel with its fishing […]
NTSB DETERMINES IMPROPERLY INSTALLED FUEL-INJECTION LINE CAUSED FIRE ON A SMALL PASSENGER VESSEL IN FLORIDA IN 2004 Washington, DC — The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that the probable cause of the fire on board the Shuttle Express II was a fractured, improperly installed fuel-injection line on the inboard side of the starboard engine […]
Scoping Meetings on Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fisheries Begin Apr 3 Ten scoping meetings have been scheduled on issues to be discussed in Amendment 15 to the Fishery Management Plan for Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass. The issues under consideration would affect recreational and commercial fishermen. Manteo, NC; April 3, […]
New Requirements for Bottom Longline Fishery Would Protect Sea Turtles and Reef Habitat This proposed rule would establish additional handling, release, and disentanglement requirements for non-target species caught in the shark bottom longline fishery. These new practices, which have already been adopted in the pelagic longline fishery, are designed to reduce the injuries and deaths […]
