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Military.com
After a year in which the Coast Guard made a record number of maritime drug interdictions and sent unprecedented numbers of drug smugglers to the United States to stand trial, the service is considering the possibility of investing in a platform that would do nothing but hold detainees until they can be transported to the mainland. Last November, The New York Times published an investigative story decrying the conditions under which suspected smugglers are held aboard Coast Guard vessels, sometimes for weeks or months at a time.
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NMLEA
PortTraining.com, in partnership with the National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy (NMLEA), announced the release of the next generation of its online certification training and management system. Powered by its CourseLaunch 3.0 mobile learning management platform, the site offers self-paced and location independent Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) compliance training. The release marks the transition of PortTraining from a desktop program to a fully responsive mobile application.
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Today
In the United Kingdom, development is underway on drones that could be used to search for people lost at sea. Watch as NBC's Keir Simmons puts the new technology to the test firsthand.
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KDKA-TV
Crews have started to remove the breakaway barges that got lodged against the Ohio River's Emsworth Locks and Dam during recent flooding. The area near the Pennsylvania dam was declared a safety zone on Jan. 15 after almost 30 barges broke away from Jack's Run Fleeting on Jan. 13 due to flooding and ice jams.
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WBAY-TV
Lawmakers say it's time to stop enabling drunk drivers by changing a law that currently considers drunk driving, drunk boating and operating snowmobiles or ATVs or UTVs impaired, all as separate offenses.
It's a problem Target 2 Investigates first told you about last year, where we found 30 percent of the people arrested in Northeast Wisconsin for boating under the influence also had records for OWI on our roadways. Several of those people had third or fourth offense OWIs, but the violations for operating any of those recreational vehicles while drunk aren't considered the same thing and don't increase penalties.
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PoliceOne.com
There is an old saying, “There is a time to talk, and a time to shoot,” which is a concept that should be familiar to all police officers. There are also a lot of less lethal options between the two choices. Verbalization when appropriate, can, and should be used, at all levels of force.
There is a time and a place for loud, forceful commands. However, using loud, repetitive verbal commands can be more of a hindrance than a help when trying to gain compliance from a resistive subject.
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Midland Daily News
Few paddling fans are likely to applaud a proposed registration program for their watercraft. Still, it's probably a pretty good idea. The Michigan State Waterways Commission, eager to fund an emerging DNR "Water Trails" system and to streamline responses to real and perceived paddlesport emergencies, is floating the notion of requiring registration of kayaks, canoes, stand-up paddleboards and similar boats.
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KATU-TV
A case of reckless boating was caught on camera in August and now the three people forced to jump overboard are suing the driver who plowed into them. The incident happened in August 2017 near the mouth of the Columbia River. No one was injured, but the boat was badly damaged by the other boat driver.
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The Pantagraph
Each of us who fish a lot have been in situations that could have gone bad. However, the national attention to recent tragic instances should shed light on safe boating practices and tournament safety moving forward.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 Police in the U.K. have a new recruit: Amazon's Alexa, the "smart" virtual assistant. In a new experimental initiative launched by the Lancashire Constabulary, Alexa will log reports of crime and provide daily updates to the public. The police will use a dedicated app to issue local news briefings to Amazon Echo owners. This is not the first time Amazon has been linked to crime-fighting, and the use of these new technologies could lead to a whole range of legal and privacy issues.
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Maritime Journal
According to Ted Curley, Chief Development Officer at Aquabotix, when utilized separately, autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles possess distinct capabilities for users across multiple industries. Yet, while both are popular unmanned underwater vehicles, they have significant differences in their design, function and overall use.
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Newsweek
Early in 2017, Orbital Insight got attention for being able to mix data from various sources to find pirate fishing boats that had gone dark by turning off their radio beacons — a discovery more useful to maritime law enforcement than business, but a strong proof point for the company's technology. In the fall, Crawford’s team relied on data from a new type of satellite technology called synthetic aperture radar to peer through Hurricane Harvey's clouds as the storm hammered Houston.
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