On Sunday, the Vietnamese foreign ministry said that a Vietnamese fishing boat was attacked by two Chinese ships near the Paracel Islands, a Chinese-claimed archipelago in the South China Seas. According to the ministry, a Chinese ship with the hull number 4006 pursued and collided with the fishing boat QNg 96416 TS at a position […]
Scientists estimate that 50-80 percent of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean. The majority of this production is from oceanic plankton — drifting plants, algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. One particular species, Prochlorococcus, is the smallest photosynthetic organism on Earth. But this little bacteria produces up to 20 percent of the oxygen in our entire […]
[By Nora L. Chidlow and Arlyn S. Danielson] Launched in 1912 and christened the Miami, Coast Guard Cutter Tampa was part of a small but nimble fleet of revenue cutters that patrolled American coastal waters. After the sinking of Titanic on April 14, 1912, cutter Miami’s Florida cruising missions of maritime law enforcement, search and […]
On Saturday – almost three years to the day after she collided with a container ship off Yokosuka – the destroyer USS Fitzgerald departed Ingalls Shipbuilding to return to her homeport in San Diego. The departure ends a two-year effort to restore and modernize the ship. In the collision with the boxship ACX Crystal, Fitzgerald suffered a […]
On Saturdday, U.S. Coast Guard servicemembers from Elizabeth City, North Carolina rescued two people and a cat from a sinking houseboat on the Scuppernong River in Albemarle Sound. Coast Guard watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received notice from a local 911 call center reporting that two people and their cat were aboard a […]
[By Helen Farr and Fraser Sturt] The RMS Titanic’s Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the North Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a salvage operation after a private company was granted permission to recover the artefact from […]
The negotiating committee for Bath Iron Works’ largest union has rejected BIW’s “last, best and final offer,” raising the prospect of a protracted labor dispute. The yard’s final offer would have provided a three percent per year raise for all workers while increasing employee health care contributions by five percent annually. It also would have increased […]
[By Kimberly Riskas] Finless porpoises are washing up dead or becoming stranded on Hong Kong’s shorelines in increasing numbers. The reasons behind the rise in mortalities are puzzling conservation groups. According to a new report, more than 40 of the small cetaceans were reported dead in 2019, making it the worst year for porpoise strandings […]
On Friday morning, salvors sent the very large ore carrier Stellar Banner to the bottom off the coast of Maranhão, Brazil, just four years after her construction and four months after she went aground. In a months-long lightering effort, the salvage team removed about 3,900 cubic meters of fuel oil and about 140,000 tonnes of […]
Many Coast Guard members stationed in Alaska have stories of tragedies that can never be forgotten. Former Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis crewmember Joe Borosh commented that often they would receive an SOS from a fishing vessel off the coast of Alaska, and upon arrival they would find only debris and bodies. In one particularly unsettling case, […]
The U.S. Navy is taking a selective, data-driven approach in its new plan to lift across-the-board travel and liberty restrictions it has imposed due to COVID-19. The decision on when and where unrestricted travel can resume will be made on a location-by-location basis based on current conditions in local areas. This will be driven by real-time […]
The port authority for Auckland, New Zealand has asked the internet community to select the name of its new all-electric tug, and it has received 3,000 suggestions, including several novel options. Learning from the experience of the UK Natural Environment Research Council – which was surprised when the online public selected “Boaty McBoatface” as the […]
