Coast Guard

US presidential race — Maritime stakeholders can expect strong support in the White House for the Jones Act. freepik.com/palinchak photo

Biden and the maritime industry: On course with a few detours

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Screen Shot 2020-11-10 at 4.20.37 PM — The machine will be used to cut sheets of steel used for the PSC

VT Halter Marine unveils new plasma cutting machine

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Great-Lakes-Freighters-USACE — Freighters at the Soo Locks, which connect Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes. USACE photo.

Great Lakes pilotage rates proposed for 2021

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

Four charged in $200K Coast Guard mariner credentialing scheme

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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

Dale K. DuPont

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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