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Okanogan Valley Gazette Tribune
The Washington State Parks Boating Program is urging stand up paddleboarders to be safe on the water by always wearing a life jacket and leash. According to Washington state recreational boating accident data, six stand up paddleboard fatalities have occurred in the last 29 years — four of those have been in the last 30 days. “The fact that we’ve had four back-to-back fatalities is alarming,” said Rob Sendak, StateParks Boating Law Administrator. “Stand up paddleboarding is typically a safe and enjoyable activity, but it comes with risks, and people underestimate those risks by not wearing a life jacket and leash.”
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This week, the Academy launched a pilot/beta test of a its Introduction to the Maritime Industry online course through its Port.Training education portal. (To learn more about the Academy’s online learning system, go to https://www.nmlea.org/porttraining.)
The Introduction to the Maritime Course was developed for the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO), as a means for intelligence analysts, law enforcement officers, and public safety professionals who are new to the industry or operation area can learn about the port system works, and identify some key elements of understanding.
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E-navigation is defined as “the harmonized collection, integration, exchange, presentation and analysis of marine information on board and ashore by electronic means to enhance berth to berth navigation and related services for safety and security at sea and protection of the marine environment.” The work conducted by the IMO during the last years lead to the identification of specific user needs and potential e-navigation solutions. Now let's discuss them at the 2019 e-Navigation Underway North America Conference at the Florida Aquarium on the Historic Tampa Waterfront, November 12-13, sponsored by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) and the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM).
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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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MARAD has released an advisory to commercial vessels that is worth taken note of, as the Persian Gulf becomes increasingly volatile. It states, “Heightened military activity and increased political tensions in this region continue to pose serious threats to commercial vessels. Associated with these threats is a potential for miscalculation or misidentification that could lead to aggressive actions. Vessels operating in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman may also encounter GPS interference, bridge-to-bridge communications spoofing, and/or other communications jamming with little no warning.” To read this advisory and others posted by the Maritime Administration, visit here.
New Haven Register
Teams are resuming the search for a woman who's been missing on an Alabama lake since a boating crash on July 4. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says crews specializing in deep-water searches are part of the renewed effort to locate the body of 26-year-old Kelsey Nicole Starling. The woman has been seen since a boating crash that occurred in a deep section of Smith Lake north of Birmingham, Alabama.
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Poughkeepsie Journal
Starting in 2020, depending on your date of birth, you may need a boating safety certificate to operate a motorboat or Jet Ski, including boats propelled by an electric motor. Yes, the new law even applies to canoes, rowboats and kayaks. In 2020, those born 1993 or later will have to take a safety course. In 2021, it applies to those born on or after Jan. 1, 1988. In 2022, those born on or after Jan. 1, 1983; and in 2024, those born on or after Jan. 1, 1978. In the final year of the phase-in, in 2025, everyone regardless of age will need a certificate.
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River Towns
Anyone who has gone on board a passenger boat on the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers has seen a sign or heard the captain explain that the boat is “Coast Guard approved.” That approval is based on inspections made by active-duty and reserve members of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment St. Paul under the direction of Lt. Matt MacKillop. “We inspect passenger boats that take more than six paying passengers,” MacKillop said. “If it is more than six, they are required to be inspected by the Coast Guard.”
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CBC
Two Canadian Coast Guard vessels were among the six ships fined recently after being caught violating speed restrictions aimed at protecting North Atlantic right whales. Transport Canada fined the coast guard ships Cape Edensaw and Cap d'Espoir $6,000 and $12,000 respectively for violating the temporary mandatory slowdown in the shipping lanes north and south of Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Four other ships received fines ranging from $6,000 to $12,000 and the ship's owners have 30 days to pay or file appeals.
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Navy Times
A commuter ferry ran aground in fog in Boston Harbor recently hmn, injuring four people on board. The captain of the MV Lightning was forced to take evasive action to avoid a collision after being “cut off” by a sport fishing boat, said Joe Pesaturo, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The ferry, which was traveling to Boston from Hull with 84 passengers and crew members, struck some rocks and ran aground in about five feet of water near Long Island, one of several islands in the harbor, at about 7:45 a.m.
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Military.com
Two professors at the Coast Guard Academy played a pivotal role in a federal drug trafficking case out of Florida in which three defendants were convicted for their roles in an international drug smuggling operation involving at least 500 kilograms of cocaine, worth about $18 million. Recently, Judge Susan C. Bucklew, a senior U.S. judge for the Middle District of Florida, sentenced the defendants in the case — Rudolph Randolph Meighan, 28, of Belize, Jorge Ramon Newball-May, 49, of Colombia, and Calbot Reid-Dilbert, 59, of Colombia — each to 19 years and seven months in federal prison for their roles in the operation.
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