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Marine Link
From March 27:
The FBI is not taking appropriate steps to review and assess potential maritime terrorism risks facing U.S. sea ports, the Justice Department's internal watchdog has found. The audit, released recently by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, found that while top FBI officials believe the country faces a low maritime terrorism threat, that view is actually based on "incomplete and potentially inaccurate information." Moreover, the audit found that the FBI had not conducted its own formal assessment of the matter.
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USA Today
From September 28:
Maritime laws enacted in the 1800s, typically obscure to all but a handful of experts, are suddenly gaining prominence through their link to the Southern California boat fire that killed 34 people. The Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 was cited recently by the owners of dive boat operator Truth Aquatics, whose vessel burst into flames early in the morning of Labor Day just off Santa Cruz Island, claiming the lives of 33 passengers and a crew member.
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Maritime Executive
From April 9: The topic of this article is inspired by the discussions Maritime Executive's Jad Mouawad had during a recent panel debate, during a conference in London in March 2019. During that panel discussion and throughout a number of interventions, ship-owner representatives kept on going back to the fact that focus on the environmental challenges of the shipping industry must not overshadow the focus on safety on board ships.
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Fox News
From November 12: The Coast Guard announced recently that it had suspended its search for an airman who fell into the Gulf of Mexico from a C-130 aircraft. The airman fell 1,500 feet out of the plane recently during a parachute-jump training exercise out of Hurlburt Field, Florida. Crew members aboard the C-130 initially saw the airman, whose parachute did deploy, treading water but lost sight of him while making a turn in an effort to pick him up.
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Military.com
From November 26: Several California Congress members are calling for stronger safety measures on passenger vessels in the aftermath of the Conception dive boat fire that killed 34 people on Labor Day — one of the worst maritime disasters in the state's history. The Times recently reported that the Coast Guard, which has the sole authority to mandate safety protocols, has often rejected National Transportation Safety Board recommendations to improve fire-safety measures for nearly 20 years.
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Boston.com
From October 16: The Coast Guard and local rescue crews responded recently to a report that a small boat, carrying a man and three children, had capsized off the coast of Maine. The rescue crews searched the waters off Kennebunkport for 22 hours, but found nothing. Now, the Coast Guard says it is investigating the possibility that the call was a hoax. “We are asking for the public’s assistance in determining the source of the calls and the nature of the distress,” Capt. Brian Lefebvre, the commander for Coast Guard Sector Northern New England, said in a statement.
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The Maritime Executive
From August 13: On July 31, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation reported favorably the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019 (S. 2297) without including either anti-Jones Act provisions which were offered or the Jones Act modifications included in the House of Representatives’ version of the legislation. The “Jones Act” is the popular name for a law that restricts the transportation of “merchandise” in U.S. domestic commerce to qualified U.S.-flag vessels (which must be constructed in the United States). Similar laws apply to the transportation of “passengers,” towing, dredging and fishing in U.S. waters.
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CBS New York
From May 24: 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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The Sacramento Bee
From June 28: Of the last two police officers killed in the line of duty in the Sacramento, California, region, one detail stands out: how extraordinarily young they were. Two women barely out of the training academy responding to common law enforcement calls — one a traffic accident, the other a domestic violence report — that ended in their deaths. Throughout the country, law enforcement critics are questioning whether police officers are adequately trained to deal with the extreme stress of working in the field.
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Eno Transportation Weekly
From March 6: The House Homeland Security Committee held a joint hearing to look at ways to secure the U.S. surface transportation system from cyber attacks, including potential threats posted by Chinese manufacture of rail cars. The hearing was jointly held by two subcommittees, the Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee, the Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Innovation Subcommittee. The hearing had two panels – one from the federal government, and one from outside groups.
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