Coast Guard

VHF radio technology has come a long way in the past 20 years. — U.S. Coast Guard photo

Performing a VHF marine radio check

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BALLAST WATER INSPECTION — Petty Officer 3rd Class Kent-Erik Hedberg, Marine Safety Detachment Massena peers through a refractometer at a sample of ballast water from the motor vessel Eider, in Montreal, June 3, 2008. The U.S. Coast Guard inspects all vessels' ballast water before.

EPA proposes standards to reduce impact of discharges from commercial vessels

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FRC-40-702x336 — The Coast Guard is following established policies for COVID, per CDC guidelines, to include quarantine and contact tracing. Bollinger Shipyards photo

Coast Guard vice commandant tests positive for Covid-19

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1000w_q95 — Members of the Coast Guard, Kodiak fire department and Kodiak emergency medical personnel transfer a 47-year-old man to an awaiting ambulance at Air Station Kodiak after the man sustained a leg injury on the F/V Nordic Cross. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard cutter catches fire in the Pacific

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thumbnail_VCFD-Conception-2-702x336 — All six crew members were asleep when the fire started on the 75'x25' wooden hulled boat off Santa Cruz Island, Calif., the NTSB said in a preliminary report. Ventura County Fire Department photo

NTSB to release results of California dive boat investigation

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Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 4.48.42 PM — A Coast Guard investigating officer terminates the voyage of a 47-foot boat deemed to be operating as an illegal uninspected passenger vessel with 10 passengers in Tierra Verde, Florida Aug. 25, 2020. Uninspected passenger vessels are only permitted by C.

Coast Guard halts illegal charter in Florida

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MMC — A sample Merchant Mariner Credential. Coast Guard image.

Coast Guard again extends MMC endorsements

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Fireball ferry — The crew of the Fire Island Ferries 276-passenger Fireball was presented with a public service award from the Coast Guard on Aug. 25 in Bay Shore, N.Y. The Fireball crew rescued six boaters on July 26, 2020, after their boat capsized near Fire Island, N.Y

Coast Guard honors N.Y. ferry crew for July rescue

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darpa-unmanned-sea-hunter — The Navy's autonomous test vessel Sea Hunter undergoing tests in the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. DARPA photo

Coast Guard seeks information on autonomous commercial vessels and vessel technologies

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Coast Guard Cutter Cypress works to correct Aids to Navigation — The Coast Guard cutter Cypress, a 225' buoy tender, shown restoring aids to navigation in Georgia's Savannah River after Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard seeks comments to improve inland waterways ATON system

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FRC 40 — The Oliver Henry is the second of three FRCs to be homeported in Apra Harbor, Guam, increasing the presence for the U.S. Coast Guard in the Indo-Pacific Theater. Bollinger Shipyards photo

Bollinger delivers second of three FRCs to be homeported in Guam

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