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Coast Guard terminates vessel voyage for safety violations
NEW YORK – A Coast Guard law enforcement team terminated a vessel voyage in Sandy Hook Bay, N.J., Tuesday, May 15, 2012. While performing a routine vessel safety check on a 19-foot pleasure craft with one person onboard, the crew from Coast Guard Cutter Chinook noted three violations: no life jackets, Type IV flotation device or sound-producing device. The crew of the Chinook terminated the voyage and escorted the vessel to Atlantic Highlands Marina. The man was … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard continues to monitor salvage efforts of 900-foot container ship MSC Idil
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Coast Guard continues to closely monitor salvage efforts Monday to assess and repair the container-ship MSC Idil, approximately 70 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico. The Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo is on scene with the MSC Idil ready to provide any needed rescue assistance, while monitoring the situation to ensure the safety of the crew and the environment. The crew of the MSC Idil continues to maintain the situation stabilized … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard terminates commercial fishing vessel voyage for safety violations
BOSTON — The Coast Guard terminated the voyage of a fishing vessel approximately two miles from Port Corea, Maine, Monday, when a boarding team discovered multiple safety violations. A Coast Guard Cutter Moray boarding team conducted a routine at-sea boarding of the fishing vessel Corea, Maine-based, 38-foot fishing vessel Calypso, and found several safety violations. There were no personal flotation devices, no visual distress signals and no life rings aboard, which are all required by law. … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard scheduled to begin Phase 2 of Towing Vessel Bridging Program
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard is scheduled to begin Phase Two of the Towing Vessel Bridging Program, July 1, conducting prioritized examinations aboard towing vessels that have not undergone voluntary examination during Phase One. To date, 2,887 towing vessels operating in the Coast Guard’s Eighth District waters, or approximately75% of the towing vessels, have participated in the program thus far. Coast Guard examiners have issued more than 2,400 safety decals, conducted more than 3,000 examinations … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard warning mariners of shoaling at Hatteras, NC
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard is warning mariners of shoaling approximately one-half mile into the Hatteras Inlet Channel here, Monday. The width of the channel has been reduced due to encroaching shoals on either side of the waterway. Vessel operators are urged not to pass other vessels in the vicinity of buoy 11A, light list number 28730.1, and 12C, light list number 28732.3, in the Hatteras Inlet Channel. “We’ve had numerous vessels run aground in this area, … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard responds to collision between freighter and drilling unit near Port Aransas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard is responding to a collision between a mobile offshore drilling unit and a tanker vessel Wednesday, near Port Aransas. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi received a report at 7:25 a.m., that the Rowan EXL-1, a mobile offshore drilling unit, and the 750-foot tanker vessel FR8 Pride had collided in the Aransas Channel, near buoy 3. The FR8 Pride was heading inbound in the Aransas Pass Channel when it … Read entire article »
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