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U.S. officials have announced that a Navy warship, along with a Coast Guard boarding team, have intercepted a “significant cache” of guided missile components being smuggled from Iran into Yemen. The guided-missile destroyer Forrest Sherman and Coast Guard patrol vessels apprehended a small, suspicious-looking boat in the Arabian Sea, which wasn’t displaying any national colors.
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ABC 4 NewsWork Boat
President Trump signed into law two massive spending bills that include healthy budgets for ongoing inland waterways construction and maintenance as well as port dredging and investment, while also signing a defense bill that supports shipyard grants and would ease the transition from military to mariner jobs.
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The Miami Herald
A man sped through the evening darkness in a boat off the Florida Keys, turning off his navigation lights to avoid attracting attention. But all that effort had the opposite result, according to federal court documents filed recently. A Coast Guard cutter patrolling about nine nautical miles southeast of Key Largo spotted the 30-foot Wellcraft around 7 p.m. New Year's Day.
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WHYY - TV
The Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 85-year-old man requiring medical assistance on a cruise ship heading to port in New Jersey recently. Officials say the Norwegian Bliss ship was about 160 miles southeast off Cape Fear, North Carolina, when the captain requested a medical evacuation, according to a Coast Guard news release.
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KOIN - TV
A Coast Guard vessel with four crew members aboard capsized after encountering several heavy wakes in Astoria, Oregon. The 25-foot Trailerable Aids to Navigation Boat capsized just after 11:30 on January 5 near Pier 39 in Astoria. Watchstanders at the 13th Coast Guard District command center in Seattle received four alerts from Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Astoria, which corroborated multiple good Samaritans' reports coming in at the same time.
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Florida Politics
Sen. Darryl Rouson filed a bill that would provide protections for emergency water vessels and construction boats and barges and for environmentally sensitive mangroves and public lands. Under his bill (SB 1378) boaters would be required to operate at slow speed, minimum wake near emergency vessels or construction operations in the water. Slow speed, minimum wake defined as a vessel operating fully off plane and completely settled into the water.
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The Bulletin
Central Oregonians planning to boat on the lakes and rivers in 2020 will need to consider several new laws passed in the spring by the Legislature. The most significant change requires boat owners operating a motorboat over 10 horsepower to take a boat safety course and carry a boating safety education card. Although the law was in place before, the 60-day grace period has been eliminated. You must have the card when you get behind the wheel.
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WHNT - TV
Three boats sunk off Ingall's Harbor recently. Alabama State Troopers say rough water led to boating issues shortly after the start of the Winter Blues on Wheeler catfish tournament. One boater, George Cuvar, says the waves scared him to death. "It's going to be a while before I ever get back out on the water. The waves were coming over the front of the boat. We tried to nose the boat up but it didn't do any good. Our boat sunk."
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