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3/9/2010
The rain predicted for the rest of the week could affect how much flooding the Pittsburgh region gets this weekend, and Allegheny County emergency planners are preparing for the worst. One to 2 inches of rain could fall through Sunday, mostly in the mountains to the east and south where melting snow contains up to the equivalent of another foot of rain. The rivers are expected to peak Saturday as rain and melting snow rush downstream from the mountains of Somerset, Garrett County, Md., and West Virginia.
3/9/2010
Tidewater, a provider of offshore supply vessels and marine support services to the offshore energy industry, has promoted its executive vice president, Jeffrey Platt, to the position of COO. Mr Platt will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day marine and shipyard operations of the company, both domestically and internationally. Mr Platt joined Tidewater in 1996 as general manager of Tidewater's business activities in Brazil.
3/8/2010
The 124-car Kitsap ferry, removed from service for hull repairs, will likely be out of service through this weekend. The 90-car Sealth, which is operating on the Point Defiance/Tahlequah route, will replace the Kitsap on the Seattle/Bremerton route. The 34-car Hiyu, on standby at Eagle Harbor Maintenance Facility, will replace the Sealth on the Point Defiance/Tahlequah route beginning Tuesday with the 2:45 p.m. sailing from Point Defiance.
3/8/2010
A Holly Ridge man has agreed to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars in restitution for false distress calls he made to the Coast Guard. As part of his plea agreement, Fisher agreed to pay $234,111 restitution to the Coast Guard for all search and rescue costs associated with the hoax calls. William H. Yates, 22, of Sneads Ferry and Steven G. Medina, 21, of Onslow County, each pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false distress messages.
3/8/2010
An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday.
3/7/2010
Coast Guard officials are asking for the public's help in determining whether a distress call that prompted a large search and rescue mission in Penobscot Bay on Saturday was a legitimate emergency or a costly hoax. The Coast Guard has released a brief audio recording of the "mayday" call in hopes that someone will recognize the speaker or the boat, identified only as the vessel Steven Bowden. "Until we can confirm something as a hoax, we treat it as an actual case," Lt. j.g. Laura van der Pol with the Coast Guard Sector Northern New England said Sunday morning.
3/7/2010
FARMERS, Business Leaders, Boaters -- these are a few of the members of our community who should plan to be at an important meeting tonight regarding the Missouri River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a consultant group it hired will make their first report to the public on a project that started last fall and will continue for five years. As Corps spokesman Paul Johnston told the Yankton (S.D.) Press and Dakotan, the public needs to understand the intent of the current study.
3/6/2010
A South Walton County man has taken his opposition to drilling off Florida's coast to a new level. He is using Facebook.com to protest offshore drilling and asks members of the online social networking site to write emails to Gov. Charlie Crist. "I want to educate people, and the way I expressed my opinion through Facebook made the most sense," said Swede, who developed the Fight Offshore Drilling in Florida event.
3/6/2010
The ceremonial smashing of a champagne bottle at the Port of Brownsville on Thursday marked the christening and official handover of the "Tuxpan" offshore drilling rig to Perforadora Central SA de CV, a Mexican oil and gas driller. The Tuxpan's three massive legs are 511 feet long each, enabling it to drill wells up to 30,000 feet in water depths up to 375 feet. The Tuxpan is the second rig Keppel AmFELS has built for Perforadora Central, which provides offshore and onshore drilling services mostly to PEMEX, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company.
3/5/2010
Electric Boat told 39 employees that they will not be laid off after all, and hundreds more will keep their jobs for longer than expected. Electric Boat notified 434 employees in January that they would be laid off in April because the company was adjusting to a downturn in its work load. Submarine repair jobs are dwindling as the Navy diverts more work to Navy shipyards and increases the amount of time between maintenance periods for the submarines.
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