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Peninsula Daily News
The Coast Guard medically evacuated an injured fisherman off a Canadian-flagged commercial fishing vessel operating 50 miles west of Neah Bay. A Coast Guard Sector Field Office/Air Station Port Angeles MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew safely hoisted the 19-year-old man into the helicopter, according to a press release. The man was transferred to emergency medical services at the Coast Guard base for transport to Olympic Medical Center for further care.
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As 2019 winds down, we wanted to take a moment and give thanks. Thanks to you, the public servants we serve and the foundation of our success. Thanks to those that patrol, protect and preserve our Nation’s maritime domain with discipline, honor, integrity and commitment. Thanks to our families who stand the watch in our homesteads and provide unwavering support as we perform our duties daily (and nightly.) Thanks to the great country that we proudly live in, serve and call our homeland. Thanks to the community of brothers and sisters that we work alongside and who make up our unique band of professionals.
Take time to cherish what we have around us, the opportunities we are afforded, and the families surrounding us during these holidays… true gifts that we are blessed with each and every day. Enjoy the presents, and the presence.
As the new year of promising and exciting rewards approaches, we pray that yours is blessed with happiness and success.
Sincerely,
The NMLEA Staff
The U.S. Coast Guard, as the DHS Executive Agent for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), would like to solicit subject matter experts to participate in an upcoming meeting of the National Maritime Interagency Advisory Group (NIAG) sponsored by the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) in Suitland, MD. This meeting will help scope and define an interagency effort to improve the Vessel of Interest (VOI) Request for Information (RFI) Management Process, a whole-of-government process to encourage sharing of information on vessels, cargo, and people of interest within the maritime security community, and to allow for stakeholders to make known requests for such information. The meeting will be held on 22 January from 0900-1500 at the National Maritime Intelligence Center at 4251 Suitland Rd, Washington, DC 20395. Meeting participants must hold a SECRET clearance and submit a Base Access request at least one week prior to the meeting. For further details or the Base Access form, please contact Mr. Hank Blaney, USCG MDA policy, at (202) 372-2637, or Harold.E.Blaney@uscg.mil.
NMLEA
The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) has been working with its state and local law enforcement partners nationally to better integrate their efforts into the larger maritime community. This collaboration revealed the need for training to expose state and local law enforcement analysts and officers to the intricacies of the maritime shipping industry. In response to that need, NMIO, with production assistance from the National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy (NMLEA), created a course, Introduction to Maritime Industry, for use by members of the global maritime community of interest.
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KATC - TV
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff's deputies are identifying the DOTD worker as 22-year-old Jeffrey Paul Curry, Jr., of Arnaudville, Louisiana. Sheriff Blaise Smith released a statement this evening regarding the incident. Smith explained that an amphibious vehicle overturned in Bayou Ramos. The vehicle was carrying three men who were working in the bayou. Two were able to swim to safety. Curry was located about three hours later by divers with the Dive Section of the St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office.
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WMUR - TV
A second boat involved in a deadly crash on Lake Winnipesaukee in November was recently recovered as the investigation in the crash continues. Two people were killed when the boats collided November 9 near Bear Island. Marine Patrol officials said they would examine the damage to the boat recovered Tuesday and compare it to the other boat.
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NBC 15
The Coast Guard has responded to a crude oil discharge near New Orleans recently. According to the Coast Guard 8th District Heartland, the Coast Guard in New Orleans received a report that about 1,050 gallons of crude oil had been discharged into Garden Island Bay. The oil came from the Whitney Oil and Gas Garden Island Bay Tank Battery 49, and was discharged because of mechanical issues, the Coast Guard says.
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Military.com
Nearly a year before 34 people were killed in a fire aboard the dive boat Conception, a second vessel owned by the same charter company began a three-day voyage around the Channel Islands. Divers on the Vision charged numerous lithium-ion batteries installed in cameras, phones, computers and even underwater scooters with an array of power outlets in the salon area. At some point, one of those batteries began to smolder as it was charging.
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KSBY - TV
A Northern California college student is recovering after becoming stranded in the rough surf recently. At about 1:30 p.m. on November 15, the Coast Guard says it received a 911 call reporting a fatigued surfer being swept toward the rocky shoreline near Moonstone Beach in the Humboldt area. The Coast Guard sent a helicopter from Humboldt Bay to rescue the 20-year-old Humboldt State University student from the crashing waves. Meanwhile, another first responder had already jumped into action.
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ABC 7
It's been nearly a year since Patty Poynter lost her husband in an offshore sea fishing accident not far from Huntington Beach. She's still trying to come to grips with how someone so experienced could lose his life in a seemingly routine day of fishing. "He knew all about the lures, the reels, the rods," said Poynter, who lives in Westminster, California. She says she remembers Jan. 3, 2019, like it was yesterday. "I did get up with him that morning. It was early, and made him his coffee," she said.
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Juneau Empire
Alaska is proportionally the most dangerous state for boating, according to Coast Guard statistics, and the Coast Guard is doing something about it. To combat the fierce weather, frigid water and high rates of boating activity., the Coast Guard sends dozens of trained Coast Guardsmen to schools across Alaska during the months of late winter to teach schoolchildren how to survive crashes and capsizings in the perennially cold waterways of Alaska’s interior and coasts.
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