Coast Guard Issues Fishing-Deaths Report
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Vents that would have allowed water to drain from the deck of a doomed scallop boat were closed and its engine door was open when it took on water and sank, killing five fishermen, according to a preliminary U.S. Coast Guard report released Saturday.
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The 52-year-old Fairhaven fisherman&#39;s body was found in the ocean about 10 am by a Coast Guard helicopter a mile south of Edgartown, not far from where his boat went down Friday evening.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - Divers found the body of a crewman on a sunken fishing boat in Nantucket Sound on Wednesday, and the search for two more men ended because debris in the wreck makes more dives too hazardous.
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A new report on the Coast Guard's response to a November oil spill in San Francisco Bay criticizes the agency's delay in notifying the public about the leak but said crews responded rapidly, the agency's top officer in California says.
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: Japan&#39;s coast guard on Wednesday found five more bodies from an Indonesian cargo ship that ran aground during a powerful typhoon, bringing the death toll for the ship to 11.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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A 92-foot crab boat with six crew members sank in the Bering Sea on Saturday, and the Coast Guard was searching for survivors. Three crewmen have been recovered, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said, but she would not say whether they survived.
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A fisherman wearing a life vest was plucked from the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday by a Coast Guard helicopter, two days after being reported missing. His companion was found dead.
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Catches of dwindling U.S. marine fish stocks by recreational anglers now rival those of commercial fisheries, claims a new report.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A lifeboat plunged 20 metres off an oil rig, killing a Canadian worker, when the hook securing it failed to lock properly, say U.S. Coast Guard researchers.
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One of two Coast Guard divers who mysteriously died during a training dive in the Arctic last summer sank uncontrollably as far as 190 feet below the icy surface and suffocated, according to an autopsy summary obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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The number of seafarers killed by pirates surged last year, even though the overall incidence of armed robbery on the high seas fell, an international watchdog said in its annual report out Monday.
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Millions of anchovies &#151; a protected species in Europe &#151; have died in northern Spain after an unexplained mass beaching, officials said Friday.
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The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the ship in the choppy Caribbean waters and began counting crew members, but the numbers did not match those given earlier.
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A fishing boat capsized in rough seas in the Strait of Gibraltar on Wednesday, leaving three crew members dead and five missing, Spanish maritime rescue officials said.
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A Japanese naval destroyer equipped with sophisticated radar key to the country's missile defense system collided with a fishing boat on Tuesday, the coastguard said, raising questions about the ship's monitoring.