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Yellow Hammer
Alabama has already had its deadliest year in two decades for boaters — and the summer isn’t nearly over yet. Boating accidents in the first 6 ½ months of 2019 have killed 25 people, AL.com reported. Already, that makes this year the deadliest one since 1998, when 32 people died. The number of deaths so far this year is already higher than year-end totals for the past several years. This July alone, 12 crashes resulted in six deaths. “In my 24 years of doing this, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Capt. Gary Buchanan, the commander of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Marine Patrol.
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NMLEA
In a recent article publicized by the BBC, the question was asked “Will ships without sailors be the future of trade?” (You can read the full article by clicking on the link.)
That question begs another, how will maritime law enforcement and public safety be impacted when AI creeps into our waterways? It does prompt some discussion. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page, (National/International Maritime Law Enforcement Academy) or on our blog page
NMLEA
The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Marine Safety Bulletin warning that commercial vessels are being
targeted by email phishing and malware intrusion attacks.
Cyber adversaries are attempting to gain sensitive information including the content of an official
Notice of Arrival (NOA) using email addresses that pose as an official Port State Control (PSC)
authority such as “port @ pscgov.org.”
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The Maritime Executive
Until the early 1950s, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year. Over time, it was learned that the use of short, easily remembered names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. In the past, confusion and false rumors resulted when storm advisories broadcast from radio stations were mistaken for warnings concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away.
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Washington Examiner
Federal agents who patrol U.S. waters from north of Tijuana up to Los Angeles say that drug smuggling has dropped off steeply as the U.S. has become more permissive toward marijuana at the same time that human trafficking has become more rewarding. The amount of drugs agents have seized in the 2019 fiscal year has dropped significantly from previous years and is expected to finish at just one-tenth of the amounts found in each of the last five years.
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The Maritime Executive
Reflecting on safety, diving contractor KD Marine’s managing director, Hamish Petersen, thinks back to a lecture at Aberdeen University around a decade ago titled “Is HSE going to be the end of the North Sea?” delivered by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). “We were shown a really good slideshow about a circus act,” says Petersen. “This trapeze artist came and jumped out on the trapeze, then someone put up a balloon which said 'at work.' Someone then came along with a clipboard saying 'risk assessment.'"
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FedScoop
The Department of Defense is on the hunt for a third-party nonprofit to manage the forthcoming Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification standards that will become the new requirements for defense contractors’ cybersecurity. The CMMC was announced last month by Katie Arrington, special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense acquisition for cyber. Arrington gave greater details on the plan in a Wednesday webcast produced by the Professional Services Council.
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Ozarks First
In 2018 a team of meteorologists were forecasting a routine severe weather event fueled by summer heat and humidity. Damaging winds, heavy rain, and lightning were the main concerns. But those storms were the first dominoes to fall in a tragic sequence of events that led to the loss of 17 lives that day. The way these storms arrived on Table Rock Lake was one of those dominoes. An unusual aspect of the storms was that the intense gust front surged well ahead of the storms with damaging winds blowing through with the sun still out, possibly catching some off guard.
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Newsday
Instead of climbing into a police cruiser, Joseph Stassi climbs into a boat. His beat, as a Nassau County, New York, police officer with the Marine Bureau, is Long Island's waterways. Recently, Stassi and his two partners were keeping watch over the South Shore, from Tobay Beach to South Oyster Bay. "It's just like a police car on the water," Stassi said of his boat.
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