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Deployed from a dive vessel, this diver is transversing along a large ship’s hull, giving it a routine cleaning for maintenance and fuel efficiency reasons. Propellers are also cleaned with large brushes. Diving Safety Management Services photo.

WorkBoat Show’s companion event is all about ‘getting things done underwater.’

Michael Crowley

Professional mariners deploy equipment used to measure the seawater’s salinity, temperature and depth from NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker. NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations/Maideline Sanchez photo

NOAA to host hiring event in Virginia

WorkBoat Staff

The Ocean Wind turbine array off Atlantic City, N.J. would send power ashore through two export cables, to the former BL England coal generation plant in Cape May County and north to the former Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in Ocean County. Ørst

Ørsted gives up on New Jersey wind projects

Kirk Moore

The first eight steel monopile foundations for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project arrived Oct. 19 in Portsmouth, Va. Dominion Energy photo.

Feds approve Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind; first foundations arrive

Kirk Moore

The crew of the Coast Guard cutter James with 33,000 lbs. of cocaine and 12,400 lbs. of marijuana, totaling $450 million. USCG photo.

Coast Guard offloads $450 million in illegal narcotics

WorkBoat Staff

Launch of USCGC ARGUS photo by Justin Sides courtesy of Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc.

Eastern Shipbuilding launches first Coast Guard Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter

WorkBoat Staff

The Saildrone’s mission track went around the Farallon Islands off California, recording the location and density of the bats it recorded. Bat Conservation International graphic.

Saildrone tests tracking technology for bats and offshore wind

WorkBoat Staff

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management released its draft plan for four new wind energy areas in the Gulf of Mexico. BOEM graphic.

BOEM finalizes next Gulf of Mexico wind energy areas

WorkBoat Staff

Firefighters boarding the Spirit of Norfolk during firefighting efforts. NTSB photo

Coast Guard publishes policy letter on safety rule for small passenger vessels

U.S. Coast Guard

The vessel is the sistership to the LNG barge Clean Canaveral, which was delivered by Bay Shipbuilding two years ago. Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding

Bay Shipbuilding christens second LNG barge

WorkBoat Staff

With an estimated population of fewer than 100 individuals, scientists were lucky to sight Rice's whales during a summer 2023 vessel survey in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA Fisheries photo/ Felipe Triana (Permit #21938).

NOAA denies activists’ call for Rice’s whale speed limits

WorkBoat Staff