Coast Guard reminds California mariners to participate in Pacific Seacoast study
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Buoys stand at attention awaiting deployment into the Pacific Ocean. (Coast Guard file photo by Seaman Robert Brazzell)
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard reminds boaters that there is still time to participate in a survey related to a study of aids to navigation in U.S. Pacific waters including the...
Coast Guard announces change to Sandusky Strait Channel Range Lights
CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard is scheduled to change the color of the Sandusky Strait Channel Range Lights from red to white late spring or early summer 2018.
The change originated as a request by commercial shipping and Great Lakes Pilots due to the red range lights aligning with the Bay Point Shoal lighted buoy “2”, also red, creating confusion.
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Coast Guard seeks public comment on ATON near Moriches Inlet and Moriches Bay
NEW YORK – The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking public comment on proposed aids to navigation to mark navigable water near Hart Cove to offer an alternate route in order avoid shoaling near buoys 26 and 27 of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway.
Currently it is dangerous for mariners to attempt to navigate Moriches Inlet, and due to the unsafe conditions, buoys in the inlet are not being maintained...
Coast Guard seeks mariner input for Western Rivers study
WASHINGTON – The United States Coast Guard is seeking input for a study of navigation requirements for the entire Western Rivers System.
The Coast Guard Waterways Analysis and Management System (WAMS) study will review the Western Rivers Aids to Navigation (ATON) System.
The ATON system on the Western Rivers differs from the U.S. Coastal ATON System due to the unstable nature of the river and channels....
Coast Guard seeks mariner input for Pacific Seacoast study
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking input from mariners for a study of navigation requirements in the Pacific Seacoast System.
The Waterways Analysis and Management System study will review the short range Aids to Navigation system that covers American waterways from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and around Alaska, Hawaii and all U.S. territories throughout the Pacific.
Interested...
Coast Guard seeks mariner input for Pacific Seacoast study
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking input from mariners for a study of navigation requirements in the Pacific Seacoast System.
The Waterways Analysis and Management System (WAMS) study will review the short range Aids to Navigation (ATON) system that covers American waterways from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and around Alaska, Hawaii and the Marianas Islands.
Interested...
Reward offered for information regarding AtoN vandalism near Hoquiam, Wash.
Broken lights sit in the shop at the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation station in Astoria, Ore., Nov. 29, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Aids to Navigation Station Astoria.
SEATTLE — A reward may be available for anyone with information for the Coast Guard regarding the destruction of the light and electronics of the Grays Harbor North Channel Range F Rear Light, south of the Bowerman Airport, near...
Coast Guard proposes aid to navigation change near Munising, Michigan
CLEVELAND — The U. S. Coast Guard is proposing to permanently discontinue the Munising Range Rear Light (LLNR 14580) and install a port entry sectored light in the position of the Munising Range Front Light (LLNR 14575) 46-24-53.820N / 086-39-40.644W.
The new sectored port entry light will display a white light to mark channel center, a red light to the right of channel center, and a green light...
Photos: Coast Guard Cutter Elm restores Buoys in San Juan after Hurricane Maria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Elm is currently restoring aids to navigation buoys throughout waterways near San Juan after Hurricane Maria.
The Elm, a 225-foot buoy tender homeported in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, has assisted in restoring 72 percent of critical aids to navigation after Maria.
For imagery and video of the Hurricane Maria response, please visit...
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