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NOAA’s Historical Hurricane Tracks
NOAA’s Historical Hurricane Tracks is a free interactive online tool that allows users to track historic hurricane tracks. The site, developed by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management ...
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Sailor Returns Home After Arctic Adventure
A hero’s welcome greeted Erkan Gursoy as he motored his peculiar craft into the Turkish port of Çanakkale. In 1972, Mr. Gursoy had been a 25-year-old blacksmith when ...
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Swiss Sailors Attacked in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
A Swiss tourist had to be airlifted out of Union Island, in the southern Grenadines, one day after he was knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant who pelted ...
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Coast Guard Warns of Potentially Dangerous Distress Signal
The Coast Guard has withdrawn the Certificate of Approval (160.037/23/0) for NAMMO LIAB AB Orange Hand Smoke Distress Signal, and the approval status of this certificate is now ...
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Solo Sailor Attempting Transatlantic Record Rescued 90 miles off New Jersey
A solo sailor attempting to break a transatlantic record with his 21-foot sailboat had to be rescued by the Coast Guard just hours into his journey. French sailor ...
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Voyage of a Lifetime on Home Built Yacht
Surfing brothers Michael and Andy Hoult, from the east coast of Tasmania, Australia have embarked on an open-ended voyage on a catamaran Michael built in a shed near ...
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Should the 2016 Olympic Games be Moved?
There has been much talk about the polluted Olympic venues of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A recent article by Dr. Amir Attaran in the Harvard Public Health Review ...
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Is Your MMSI Information Up to Date and Accurate?
The U.S. Coast Guard and other search and rescue authorities rely on up to date Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) information to locate vessels in distress. The Coast ...
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UPDATE: Atlantic Takes a Toll on the Transat bakerly Fleet
Having reluctantly decided to end his attempt to sail to New York on board Pen Duick II, Loïck Peyron today spoke of his disappointment at not being able ...
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The World’s Largest Model Ship Marks 100 Years
The story of the world’s largest ship model and her “brick berth” involves a businessman’s fortune, a fabled ship, a determined daughter and philanthropist, and a labor of ...
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