Buoys to Help Coast Guard Track Ships
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The Coast Guard will begin testing in February a new way to prevent terrorism on the seas: radio receivers on weather buoys ringing the U.S. coast that can track ships long before they reach ports.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for six boaters and said it was investigating the distress calls about their small craft taking on water as a possible hoax.
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A new network of sensors will detail how ecological threats to the waterway affect the seacoast.
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Armed with tagging devices and satellite tracking, marine scientists follow hundreds of sea animals around the Pacific Ocean, monitoring everything from location and depth to speed and water temperature. By Randy Dotinga.
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The U.S. Navy is surveying the Malacca Strait and coastal waters off Indonesia for signs that last month's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami altered the sea bed under the world's busiest shipping lane.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting an extensive search for Jim Gray, a senior manager with Microsoft's Silicon Valley research organization, who failed to return from a sailboating trip Sunday off of San Francisco. The Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was continuing to search 4,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and the Farallon Islands, where Gray was reportedly headed in his 40-foot sailboat Tenacious Sunday morning. He was reported missing by his wife that evening when he failed to return to their home in San Francisco as expected. Gray, 63, was hired in 1995 to run Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, also based in San Francisco, where he researches databases and transaction processing systems, according to a biography of him on a Microsoft Web site. His particular focus is on using computers to make scientists more productive in the fields of astronomy, geography, hydrology, oceanography, biology, and health care, the site explains. Gray, who has also worked at such technology companies as IBM, Tandem Computers, and Digital Equipment, won the ACM Turing Award in 1998 for his work on transaction processing. The Coast Guard said it has deployed a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft, an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, three 87-foot coastal patrol boats, and other equipment to continue the search. It has been assisted by the Alameda County (California) Sheriff's Office. No signs of Gray or the vessel have been found, the Coast Guard said. The phone at the eScience Group's office went unanswered when IDG News Service called for comment.
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By Cammen, Leon M  In last year's Review and Forecast article for Sea Technology magazine, we presented some of the activities being undertaken by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Sea Grant College Program in response to President George W.
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CHENNAI, India  - An Indian Navy ship equipped with a radiation-monitoring laboratory will keep watch on the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz when it comes calling at the southern port of Chennai on Monday.
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Ships that have called at specified ports in Africa and the former Soviet Union are more likely than other vessels to be boarded and inspected when they enter U.S. ports, the Coast Guard said Friday.
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With the weather improving Sunday, the Coast Guard planned for a helicopter to lower a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska's coast &#151; a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Feb. 17--A March 7 deadline grows closer for commercial fishing boats in a Gulf of Mexico fishery to install satellite-monitoring equipment on their boats.
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Virginia plans to install a monitoring station in the Potomac River that will help boaters and fishermen while assisting marine biologists studying the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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With the weather improving Sunday, the Coast Guard planned to send a helicopter to lower a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast -- a
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.
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A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a final frontier that is opening up to ship traffic in a warming Arctic climate.
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Scientists working to help an Atlantic right whale that is entangled in fishing gear were able to keep track of it overnight and expected good conditions to continue, a spokeswoman said Friday.
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By Jessica Foster, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 19--The Coast Guard rescued three fishermen who were stranded  without power on their boat from 6- to 8-foot seas east of Georgetown on  Sunday.