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Wavy
Over the Father’s Day weekend, U.S. Coast Guard crews responded to an expected spike in calls for help from New Jersey to North Carolina. With that in mind, officials passed on several tips to be aware of and use before going out on the water.
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WKZO
Ahead of the big Fourth of July weekend, a nonprofit is reminding boaters of some basic safety tips to observe while celebrating America's birthday. According to the Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS), Fourth of July weekend brings the expectation of thousands of boaters on the water.
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Do you or your agency have someone they would like to nominate for the National Maritime Domain Awareness Excellence Award that the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) will be presenting to a worthy recipient at the MSC-West in Seattle in September? This would be a Government or Industry partner or entity that you feel has contributed to maritime domain awareness. If so, please fill out the form attached here, with your nominee’s information, and return to Thomas Darby (thomas.a.darby@navy.mil) by 20 July 2020.
Award Background:
In support of the stated goals of the National Maritime Domain Awareness Plan (NMDAP), the National MDA Executive Steering Committee establishes an annual national level maritime domain awareness award program “MDA ESC Excellence Award” to recognize exemplary stakeholder members of the Global Maritime Community of Interest (GMCOI), whose accomplishments have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the United States and its territories. This includes the US Federal interagency, US Intelligence Community (IC), state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies, international partners, academia, and maritime industry.
There are four categories for these awards:
- U.S. Federal Interagency and Intelligence Community Award
- Fusion Center Award
- Law Enforcement Award
- Special recognition
Make your nomination today, to recognize those partners that stand out among their peers, for the Excellence in Maritime Domain Awareness. It’s time to be recognized!
Mark R. DuPont
Executive Director
National/International Maritime Law Enforcement Academy
Up Matters
The ‘search’ in search and rescue can take a long time. "The actual searching part can be the most time consuming and this is just a tool that will help take down the one potential of it being the longest part of a case." That tool is the I-911 system. The U.S. Coast Guard recently started utilizing this technology. If you call the Coast Guard for help, the command center in Sault Ste. Marie will then send a text and can track where help is needed.
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The Maritime Executive
Latent cyber risk. That's what we in the cyber business call a cyber threat that is undetected, unplanned and unanticipated. These are the cyber risks that lurk in the dark places of your networks and the exposures that you didn't think about that come out when you least expect.
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Work Boat
The inland waterways industry has joined other businesses across the U.S. in seeking liability protection from pandemic-related lawsuits that are filed on behalf of workers who claim they have been sickened or died from exposure to Covid-19 while on the job.
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The News
Hydrography is the science that measures and describes the physical features of the navigable portion of the Earth’s surface and adjoining coastal areas. In addition, it supports nautical charting and the provisioning of tide, current and water level information for safe navigation of shipping, as well as marine conservation and also determining the limits of continental shelf.
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