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WLOX-TV
From October 9: A man accused of driving a boat while intoxicated, causing a deadly crash that took the life of a Hancock County, Indiana, teen, has been found guilty in her death. Eugene Butler Jr., 47, was found guilty of culpable negligence in the death of 19-year-old Vanessa Mauffray. In June 2016, Mauffray and her boyfriend, Ryan Necaise, were in a skiff setting crab traps on Bayou Caddy. Butler, who was driving a 20-foot fishing boat, crashed into the couple’s skiff.
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The Maritime Executive
From August 27: The Coast Guard has issued a reminder to passengers that intentionally jumping overboard may come at a steep price, even for those who survive. Investigators from Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England have fined two teenage passengers $2,500 each for intentionally jumping over ferry railings in June and July. The notices of violation are still subject to appeal. The USCG considers the act of intentionally jumping into the water from a passenger vessel to be interfering with the safe operation of the vessel, which is a violation of federal law. The penalties for this violation can be up to $35,000.
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WLTX - TV
From December 4: Earlier this year, a boating accident on Lake Murray changed one local family’s lives forever. “On September 21st, my family was involved in a tragic boating accident," Morgan Kiser told News 19, "My father was lost and my mother lost her leg. So, in honor of my father, we’re trying to bring awareness to safety so that no one else has to experience such a tragedy.” Morgan and her family have started an initiative called Safe the Lake aimed at bringing awareness to lake and boater safety.
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WFLA - TV
From September 10: Two Coast Guard pilots and two rescue swimmers just returned to Air Station Clearwater after a search and rescue mission to the Bahamas. They described the devastation and the trip. Rescue swimmer Brian Kamp says parts of the island are wiped out. “There’s debris and devastation everywhere,” said Kamp. “Just imagine, someone setting up your lego set and just destroying it. Pieces everywhere.”
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The Baltimore Sun
From May 24: The N.S. Savannah pitched and rolled through a hurricane on the return from its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1964. Then its nuclear-powered engines abruptly shut down. The storm had somehow triggered the ship’s safety systems, which turned off its reactor and left it floating without power in a storm hundreds of miles off the coast of Ireland. Capt. Stanley D. Wheatley, the chief engineer, had only one option to save the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo liner: shutting off the very systems designed to prevent a disaster in the reactor, so he could turn the engines back on.
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Trib Live
From September 18: It’s a new way to fight an age-old problem. Sometimes, people drink alcohol when out boating. And, as a result, some of them die. But there are new tools out there to detect who has had too much. The Coast Guard recently released its 2018 Recreational Boating Statistics report. It looks at boating accidents nationwide, their causes, impacts and costs.
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ABC News
From September 25: One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland, California, warehouse. The other was a bona fide boat afloat on the ocean off Santa Barbara. Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, two of the worst disasters in modern California history. Each has brought a search for blame aimed at finding whether someone was negligent.
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The Sacramento Bee
From September 18: A boat collision on the San Joaquin Delta near Ski Beach recently killed one person and injured at least five others. In a news release, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said it was investigating the crash, which was initially reported as a hit-and-run, but it later said a boat fled the scene to seek medical attention for its passengers and has been in contact with law enforcement.
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Millitary.com
From April 9: The scenario: Neo-Nazi terrorists with a cache of radioactive material have taken over a three-deck tour boat out of Miami full of frightened tourists. The rescue team: an elite cadre of Coast Guard operators with specialized training in ship boarding. Their uniforms were nonstandard — some even wore high-top sneakers — but they sported arm patches bearing a common motto: "Nox noctis est nostri," the night is ours.
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Military.com
From August 20: 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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