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CG e-Newsletter
February 3, 2005

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 In this week's newsletter:

• New Coast Guard sonar system will help protect nation's ports
• In Jacksonville, a secure feeling
• Super Bowl-Bound Ship Delayed At Port Canaveral For Weapons Sweep
• Coast Guard crew returns from tsunami relief work
• US Coast Guard invites India to share intelligence
• Coast Guard Rolls Out Safety and Security Teams
• How safe is our border?
• Coast Guard, DNR to increase river boat patrols
• Coast Guard report: Boats, staff needed
• Maine needs security funds, Collins argues
• Coast Guard Cutter Dallas Returns from Successful Counter-Drug Patrol
• Coast Guard Seizes 1,012 Pounds of Marijuana
• Naval Units Seize 75,000 Lbs of Cocaine
• Sniffing out terrorism at ports
• Coast Guard picks up stranded people
• 22 Passengers Rescued From Boat
• Captain's actions save two after boat fire at sea
• Coast Guard rescues two in waters off Gulfport
• Coast Guard rescues woman from waters off Cape Arago
• Towboat captain's testimony continues
• Council: Weather legitimate reason for incomplete fishing trips
• Sunken vessel overloaded, Coast Guard says
• Sunken tug still stumps Coast Guard
• Woman who helped fake husband's death sentenced to prison
• High river leads Coast Guard to order towing restrictions
• Coast Guard to continue regulating bridges over Fox, Wolf Rivers
• Coast Guard drops anchor in Oakland
• Coast Guard chopper is always ready
• Coast Guard Cutter Venturous Returns Home after Five-Week Patrol
• Tearful reunion for families on 5th anniversary of Alaska Air crash
• Coast Guard Academy Choir Will Sing National Anthem at Super Bowl XXXIX
• Eye on the water: Coast Guard reservist honored with Achievement Medal
• Coast Guard Auxiliary unveils updated Float Plan Central Website
• Coast Guardsmen create comic strip
• Deepwater Newsletter-January
• More CG News

New Coast Guard sonar system will help protect nation's ports

By Jeremiah Marquez
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - The Coast Guard is seeking to protect the nation's ports from terrorist attacks by scuba divers with a sonar system so powerful it can distinguish swimmers from dolphins, officials said Tuesday.

http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-631710.php

In Jacksonville, a secure feeling

February 3, 2005

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2005/02/03/in_jacksonville_a_secure_feeling?pg=2

Super Bowl-Bound Ship Delayed At Port Canaveral For Weapons Sweep

http://www.local6.com/news/4158666/detail.html

Coast Guard crew returns from tsunami relief work

By Suzanne Roig
Advertiser Staff Writer

KALAELOA - The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 arrived home last night, tired but proud to have been able to help provide relief for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jan/31/ln/ln19p.html

US Coast Guard invites India to share intelligence
The joint programme would involve real-time coastal surveillance using remote-controlled spy planes

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 1: The US Coast Guard has invited its Indian counterpart to take part in an intelligence-sharing programme that would involve real-time coastal surveillance, using remote-controlled spy planes to ''improve the maritime domain awareness of aligned nations."

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=63901

Coast Guard Rolls Out Safety and Security Teams

by Ari Shapiro 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4471966

How safe is our border?

By Josie Roberts
Sunday, January 30, 2005

Under the glass pane of Ed Duda's desktop is an aerial photo of the smoking World Trade Center buildings.

http://tonawanda-news.com/story.asp?id=1781

Coast Guard, DNR to increase river boat patrols

LAST UPDATE: 2/2/2005 6:53:15 PM

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - The Coast Guard and the law enforcement section of West Virginia's Division of Natural Resources are stepping up security on West Virginia's rivers.

http://www.wkrc.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=B9049F81-4827-4F6D-8976-FCBED46774B5

Coast Guard report: Boats, staff needed
Local base adjusts to new mission

Jon Gambrell, The Bellingham Herald

Though it is adapting to a new host of threats and challenges after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the U.S. Coast Guard still has aging equipment and overworked crews, according to a federal audit released Tuesday.

http://news.bellinghamherald.com/stories/20050202/TopStories/229370.shtml

Maine needs security funds, Collins argues

By BART JANSEN, Portland Press Herald Writer

Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee for secretary of homeland security said at a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that he supports boosting port security for areas such as Portland.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050203homeland.shtml

Coast Guard Cutter Dallas Returns from Successful Counter-Drug Patrol

U. S. Coast Guard
January 31, 2005

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Coast Guard Cutter Dallas returns to homeport here today after a highly successful counter-drug patrol in the Caribbean Basin, which resulted in the seizure of more than 15,000 pounds of cocaine and the arrest of 15 suspected smugglers from three smuggling ventures.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,uscg2_013105.00.html?ESRC=coastguard.nl

Coast Guard Seizes 1,012 Pounds of Marijuana

U. S. Coast Guard
January 28, 2005

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - A joint team from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island and the Coast Guard Investigative Service located and seized 1,012 pounds of marijuana on the beaches of South Padre Island, Thursday.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,uscg2_012805.00.html?ESRC=coastguard.nl

Naval Units Seize 75,000 Lbs of Cocaine

Source: Sea Classics
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Arrival time: 2005-02-02

USS Crommelin took part in the largest drug seizure in history.

http://myac.yellowbrix.com/pages/myac/Story.nsp?story_id=64351833&ID=myac&scategory=Aerospace%2FDefense%3AMilitary&

Sniffing out terrorism at ports
Two K-9s with a knack for finding explosives join the security effort

By RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

GALVESTON - Cora and Touché let their noses do the talking Wednesday morning.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3022132

Coast Guard picks up stranded people

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Thirty-two Spanish-speaking people were picked up Friday by the Coast Guard from an islet off the Florida coast near Miami where they had been stranded, said a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol.

http://www.ksbitv.com/home/1376901.html

22 Passengers Rescued From Boat

Coast Guard crews and passing boaters teamed up Wednesday to take 22 passengers off a fishing vessel that was taking on water 10 miles west of Charlotte Harbor. No one was injured.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050203/NEWS/502030418/1003/NEWS01

Captain's actions save two after boat fire at sea

By Jack Encarnacao, Globe Correspondent  |  February 3, 2005

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/03/captains_actions_save_two_after_boat_fire_at_sea/

GULFPORT, Miss. - A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew has saved two men from a capsized skiff in waters off the Gulfport coast.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/10767860.htm

Coast Guard rescues woman from waters off Cape Arago

By Howard Yune, Staff Writer

CAPE ARAGO STATE PARK - A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a 19-year-old Coos Bay woman Sunday night after she fell into the roiling surf off Cape Arago, south of Charleston.

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/01/31/news/news04.txt

Towboat captain's testimony continues

By Brandon Keat
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Published in the Asbury Park Press 02/3/05

By KIRK MOORE
STAFF WRITER

Regulators this week rescinded a fishing rule that critics said might have contributed to the deaths of five Massachusetts scallop fishermen, even as a lead Coast Guard investigator said she's found no evidence the so-called "broken trip" rule figured in the Dec. 20 sinking of the boat Northern Edge.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050203/NEWS03/502030323/1007

Sunken vessel overloaded, Coast Guard says

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 - by Lynn Melling

Anchorage, Alaska - The U.S. Coast Guard says it believes the Big Valley had too much equipment on board, and that is why it went down on the opening day of the snow crab season. Officials say first-hand accounts put the pieces together.

http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/master.asp?articleid=11284&zoneid=4

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series that takes a look at the December 2002 sinking of the tug Primo Brusco.

A two-year U.S. Coast Guard investigation has been unable to find a definitive cause of the fatal sinking of the tug Primo Brusco in 2002, despite uncovering two tantalizing leads.

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/30/area_news/news02.txt

Woman who helped fake husband's death sentenced to prison

The Associated Press
Feb 2 2005

A Tennessee woman who admitted to taking part in a scheme to fake her husband's death has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison, the U.S. attorney's office announced Tuesday.

http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?NEWS/news_storyV2005.mv+link=200502026909306

High river leads Coast Guard to order towing restrictions

Ross Touchard of Maurepas considers piloting the Mississippi River easy -- at least most of the time.

http://www.wbrz.com/stories/020205/new_river001.shtml

APPLETON, Wis. - The U.S. Coast Guard has dropped its bid to stop regulating highway and railroad bridges over parts of the Fox and Wolf Rivers, which eliminates fears the bridges would be permanently closed to boat traffic.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/10768362.htm

Coast Guard drops anchor in Oakland
350 employees are leaving Alameda for more space downtown

By Susan McDonough, STAFF WRITER

OAKLAND - An additional 700 shiny black shoes will cross the marble floors of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building each morning with the expansion of the U.S. Coast Guard into downtown Oakland.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2540052

Coast Guard chopper is always ready

By PETE MACKIN, Journal Staff Writer

K.I. SAWYER - The relatively rare sound of chopper blades echoed off the hills surrounding Marquette's Lower Harbor recently as the U.S. Coast Guard conducted ice rescue training.

http://www.miningjournal.net/news/story/0130202005_new04-n0130.asp

Coast Guard Cutter Venturous Returns Home after Five-Week Patrol

U. S. Coast Guard
February 01, 2005

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous will be returning home at 10:00 a.m. today after a five-week patrol in the Caribbean Sea.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,uscg2_020105.00.html

Tearful reunion for families on 5th anniversary of Alaska Air crash

JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer

Monday, January 31, 2005

(01-31) 17:12 PST PORT HUENEME, Calif. (AP) --

Tearful families and friends of 88 people killed when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 spiraled into the sea five years ago paused on a wind-swept beach Monday afternoon for a moment of prayer.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/31/state2012EST0137.DTL&type=golf

Coast Guard Academy Choir Will Sing National Anthem at Super Bowl XXXIX

U. S. Coast Guard
January 27, 2005

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Twenty-five Coast Guard Academy Glee Club members will perform the national anthem at Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,uscg1_012705.00.html?ESRC=coastguard.nl

Eye on the water: Coast Guard reservist honored with Achievement Medal

By Katherine Didriksen
Special Correspondent

February 1, 2005

Coast Guard Auxiliary unveils updated Float Plan Central Website

LINCOLN, Nebraska - The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary has redesigned its Float Plan Central - featuring the world's only lifesaving device on paper.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13825102&BRD=1659&PAG=461&dept_id=8103&rfi=6

Coast Guardsmen create comic strip

The American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) has launched a new comic strip series to introduce and educate young readers about the history and contributions of mechanical engineering.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13872039&BRD=1659&PAG=461&dept_id=8103&rfi=6

Deepwater Newsletter-January

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-a/deepwater/pdf/Jan05Newsletter.pdf

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