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A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod crew successfully conducted a medevac of an 82-year-old male aboard the cruise ship Queen Mary II approximately 85 nautical miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass., in early January. The air crew safely brought the man back to Hanscom Air Force Base where EMS was waiting to transport the man to Massachusetts General Hospital. U.S. Coast Guard video Courtesy of Air Station Cape Cod

Coast Guard rescues octogenarian from cruise ship

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Marad can award grants for capital projects and workforce training to qualified small shipyards. Ken Hocke photo

$20 million in funding available for small shipyards

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BOEM Jackup Sun — Sun filters down on a jackup rig in the Gulf of Mexico. BOEM photo

BOEM seeks comment on revisions to oil and gas lease sale bid procedures

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Professional mariners deploy equipment used to measure the seawater’s salinity, temperature and depth from NOAA ship Reuben Lasker. (NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations/Maideline Sanchez)

Hiring events in Mississippi for NOAA research ship jobs

Crewmembers assigned to USCGC Forward (WMEC 911) transport illegal narcotics to the cutter’s onboard storage location in the Atlantic Ocean Nov. 11, 2022. The Forward was deployed in the Coast Guard Seventh District’s area of operations for counterdrug missions. U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Olivia Anthony photo

Medium endurance cutter seizes tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine

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The Final Supplemental EIS includes an expanded greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis and provides an analysis of monetized impacts from these estimated GHG emissions. Shell photo

BOEM issues final environmental analysis for upcoming Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales

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This report identified numerous, systemic challenges in the management of operations at USMMA, including the oversight of capital programs. USMMA photo

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's new capital improvement plan

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Gas Ares after the accident. Source: U.S. Coast Guard

NTSB Marine Safety Reports: Quarterly Summary

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The combination of high cargo ship traffic, feeding areas and migratory whale routes result in a marked increased risk of ship strikes to whales that can result in serious injury or death to whales. John Calambokidis/Cascadia photo

Endangered whales off California coast will move shipping lanes

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WorkBoat's top 10 news stories of 2022

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The sinking of the Miss Majestic in Hot Springs, Ark., in 1999, where 13 lives were lost. NTSB photo

New law will improve duck boat safety, NTSB says

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Emily Narrow, mission videographer, enjoys the sunset over the Pacific Ocean from the back deck of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during the NOAA Ocean Exploration mission: Discovering the Deep: Exploring Remote Pacific Marine Protected Areas in 2017. NOAA Ocean Exploration photo

US, Australia to jointly explore and map Pacific Ocean

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Crewmembers from Coast Guard cutter Forward offload interdicted narcotics in Port Everglades, Fla., Dec. 15, 2022. The offload contained an estimated $176 million in cocaine the Coast Guard and its partners intercepted in the international waters of the Caribbean Sea. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Rodriguez.)

Coast Guard offloads $176 million worth of cocaine in Florida

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