Sentences with phrase «coast guard reported»

In 2011, The U.S. Coast Guard reported over 4500 accidents involving recreational boats like pontoons, in which 758 people died and 3081 were injured.

In 2009, the United States Coast Guard reported nearly 5,000 recreational boating accidents, resulting in 736 deaths and over 3,300 injuries.

In 2011, The U.S. Coast Guard reported over 4500 accidents involving recreational boats like pontoons, in which 758 people died and 3081 were injured.

Indeed, the safer practices corresponded with an 87 percent reduction in the rate of safety incidents the U.S. Coast Guard reported for the sablefish fishery before and after catch shares went into effect.

A Turkish Coast Guard report released just before that spill had determined that Turkey is among the top 10 countries for shipping accidents, with 500 on the Bosphorus alone in the past 50 years.

According to recent U.S. Coast Guard reports and studies, the majority of fatal boating accident victims were not wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident.

The Coast Guard reports that Jet Skis make up only 10 % of all boats, but are involved in 30 % of all boating accidents.

Not exact matches

(Saildrone's boats can also report to the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard when they find narco - subs or boats smuggling drugs.)

(Saildrone's boats can also report to the DHS and the Coast Guard when they find narco - subs and boats smuggling drugs.)

In June this year, a ship in the Black Sea reported to the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center that its GPS system had been disrupted and that over 20 ships in the same area had been similarly affected.

The inspections — conducted last week at shipyards in Rockland County and southern New Jersey — came after the Coast Guard received a report of «minor mechanical issues,» Conroy said.

The distress calls were monitored and received by the United States Coast Guard and reported to emergency services in Cayuga County; however, upon investigating these calls for help it has been determined that each report was false.

The project, being built on a former U.S. Coast Guard base, hit a snag in December when the state Senate put a hold on $ 16.5 million in subsidies proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Politico New York reported.

Update: Officials from the Coast Guard, the lead agency on the investigation, say its pollution teams discovered the diesel is actually rain runoff from somewhere up river, not from a tugboat as originally reported.

Shuster led retired Coast Guard Capt. Art Halvorson 53 percent to 35 percent, when The Associated Press called the race with all precincts reporting.

In its PAWSA report, the Coast Guard says the workshops» most significant recommendations were to create a Hudson River Safety Committee; increase recreational boating safety information; and clarify current anchorage regulations.

The U.S. Coast Guard released a report Tuesday with recommendations following a review of safety risks on the Hudson River.

Newly returned from riding along on the U.S. Coast Guard's Healy icebreaker as it surveyed the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska, Vermont Law School professor Betsy Baker reports a failure of science and law to communicate.

«We are extremely pleased at the conference report that came out and look forward to that being signed into law,» Glackin told the Senate Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee.

The Coast Guard conducts a telephone investigation of every report, according to Petty Officer Nathan Thompson, and determines an appropriate course of action on the basis of that.

The Coast Guard and Virginia Marine Resources Commission reported today they have not observed any obvious signs of water pollution, such as oil sheens.

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

A new study on Coast Guard workers who responded to the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 finds increased levels of exposure to toxic disperants led to a higher prevalence of coughing, shortness of breath, and more reporting of wheezing, skin rashes, vomiting and diarrhea.

Mrs. Jaffe's fifth graders recently completed non-fiction digital book reports covering a wide variety of topics including space tourism, The U.S. Coast Guard, snow leopards, linebackers, the Bermuda Triangle, and more!

Almost 50 Coast Guard personnel from across the Great Lakes region have departed for areas in Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey, officials reported Monday.

As of Thursday afternoon, the Midtown Houston Patch is reporting over 3,500 water rescues by the police, fire, and coast guard — this doesn't include the thousands of rescues performed by private citizens / civilians.

Before that, the last confirmed sighting was the morning of March 17, when Coast Guard officials received a report of the cetacean by the Coronado Bridge.

Please report any collisions with whales or any observed injured or dead whales to NOAA at 877 - SOS - WHALe (877-767-9425) or to the U.S. Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16.

But even skeptics were caught off guard when a recent sighting of a rare humpback whale was reported by tourists sailing off the coast of the Placencia Peninsula.

«Even the most moderate predicted trends in climate change will present new national security challenges for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard,» said Frank L. Bowman, co-chair of the committee that wrote the report and a retired U.S. navy admiral.

Click here for a video report on the Coast Guard's plan to establish its first Arctic outpost and for reaction from the State Department to a reporter's question about the Arctic policy shift:

4:06 p.m. — ExxonMobil Pipeline representative Larry Hawthorne reports the incident to the National Response Center, a branch of the U.S. Coast Guard that pipeline companies must notify after oil spills.

On March 13, 2018 the United States Coast Guard (USCG) issued its findings from the Hudson River Ports and Water Ways Safety Assessment (PAWSA) report.

Ask your Congressional Representative to support bill number H.R. 2619 that would prevent the Coast Guard from establishing any new anchorage grounds on the Hudson River without submitting a report to the Congress detailing the potential impact of the proposed anchorage grounds on critical habitats and sites listed on the National Priorities List.

image: CBS News CBS News reporters have been turned away and threatened with arrest, prevented from reporting on the impact of oil coming ashore in Louisiana, by contractors from BP, apparently working in conjunction with the US Coast Guard.

As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to spread, and the Coast Guard investigating reports that oil has begun washing ashore in Louisiana, President Obama has banned new offshore oil drilling.

A new report by The Center for Public Integrity reveals that, in the hours after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught on fire, the US Coast Guard failed to follow its own internal firefighting procedures, potentially causing the

Coast Guard watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a report around 3:50 p.m. that the boat had begun taking on water from a six - inch hole in the hull.

Spokespeople for both Tropical Breeze Casino and the U.S. Coast Guard declined to comment on the report because of the ongoing investigation into that fire.

It should interest you to know that, according the U.S. Coast Guard's annual report, a full 90 percent of drowning victims were not wearing life jackets at the time of the accident and that owner inexperience is the third most common reason for boating accidents.

A report produced by the U.S. Coast Guard, which can be viewed here, shows that of the approximately 4,500 boating accidents that occurred in U.S. waters in 2012, over 65 percent of the incidents resulted in some type of injury.

Currently, these crimes are reported only to the Coast Guard but there is no requirement to make them public, leaving uninformed passengers with the impression that their floating vacation spots were practically free of crime.