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The Baltimore Sun
The N.S. Savannah pitched and rolled through a hurricane on the return from its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1964. Then its nuclear-powered engines abruptly shut down. The storm had somehow triggered the ship’s safety systems, which turned off its reactor and left it floating without power in a storm hundreds of miles off the coast of Ireland. Capt. Stanley D. Wheatley, the chief engineer, had only one option to save the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo liner: shutting off the very systems designed to prevent a disaster in the reactor, so he could turn the engines back on.
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NMLEA
As we complete the annual Police Week throughout the country and honor our fallen officers, it is time to look at what impact we can make do drive down that number each year through actions we can take within our agencies, departments and personally. In partnership with “Below 100”, the NMLEA is looking to its membership to host an Intensive – Driving Down Line-of-Duty Deaths - Expanded Course. At no cost, this one day event for up to 30 participants will include the following subject areas:
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NMLEA
While writing these notes, I sit in Baltimore to deliver some training to the fire, EMS and police departments, while the city tries to recover after their entire enterprise has been hit with ransomware. Emails, billing systems, court records and schedules, and communications systems are currently inoperable. Who is going to be next?
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NMLEA
I am getting a little nervous. Ok, VERY nervous.
As reported by Scot Graham (Port Security Specialist and USCG retired Captain at Sector Long Island Sound) to his stakeholders this week, cyber-related risks in the maritime environment continue to be cause of concern. Three spear phishing attempts outlined below indicate a troubling trend toward targeting cargo vessels while underway.
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Maritime Digitalisation & Communications
E-learning providers Videotel and Seagull will collaborate in producing new training content when they are supported by the same private equity group. This will bring together more than 40 years of experience in maritime training provision and ambitions to invest in new courses. According to Oakley Capital managing partner Peter Dubens, both e-training business will be managed separately, but will collaborate on producing new content and technology.
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NPR
An ongoing oil spill that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for more than 14 years is finally being contained, the U.S. Coast Guard announced on recently. The Taylor Energy oil spill began after Hurricane Ivan triggered an underwater mudslide in 2004 that caused the company's oil platform to topple and sink. The New Orleans-based company managed to cap some of the 25 broken pipes leading to the leak, but many were left unplugged.
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Boating
Nothing will bring back the 17 people who died in July 2018 while touring Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, aboard a modified amphibious DUKW boat from World War II. The tragedy created a fallout that will forever affect the lives of the families involved and will fill the courts for years. Just as it is important to mourn those who lost their lives in the incident, it is important to learn from it in terms of boating safety.
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Geek Wire
The world’s seas are increasingly awash with data. There are sensors attached to buoys, autonomous sail drones, ships and satellites, each churning out a constant stream of information about water temperature, wave height, currents and more. A new strategic alliance launched by Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee’s office wants to harness all of that data — and collect even more of it — to slash the maritime industry’s carbon emissions and increase its efficiency by 2050.
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CBS New York
As people start getting into boating season, there’s a mother on Long Island fighting to keep mariners safe with Brianna’s Law. For Gina Lieneck, her life changed forever in a single moment was in 2005. Her 11-year-old daughter, Brianna, was killed in a boating accident after another boat smashed into their cabin cruiser off the coast of Long Island. Gina and her husband barely survived the crash. Once recovered, she made a promise in her daughters memory.
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KATU2-TV
Investigators pressed a Coast Guard safety examiner on day four of the testimony regarding a capsized fishing vessel that killed three. They pressed him on his performed safety inspections and regulations of the commercial fishing industry. Coast Guard fishing vessel safety examiner Steven Kee says he performed a safety examination in November 2018, about two months prior to the accident. Kee says only the Mary B II's captain, Stephen Biernacki, was on board.
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Cruise Industry News
Once the damage is done, it is important to know what to do. “The goal is always to avoid damage control scenarios as much as we can,” said Captain Morgan Turrell, deputy director of marine safety for National Transportation Safety Board, speaking at a recent industry event. “Still, in a situation where you find yourself in a flooding or grounding event, there is a need for more awareness,” he continued.
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