On February 4, 2011, US Border Patrol agents arrested two male Mexican nationals on California’s Imperial Beach after the two used self-propelled underwater devices to illegally enter the United States by sea. At about 8:45 p.m., the crew of a Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine aircraft spotted two suspicious subjects in [...]
Tokyo’s Institute of Cetacean Research is reporting one of their Japanese flagged Antarctic whale research vessels, the Yushin Maru No. 3, was attacked by two vessels, the Bob Barker and the Gojira, operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The report, which can be read below states the activists deployed at least 10 propeller foulers [...]
On January 5, 2010 the Samho Jewelry, an 11,500 ton chemical tanker, was hijacked and her twenty-one man crew held hostage by a group of Somali based pirates armed with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades 800 miles from shore in the Arabian Sea. On January 21, 2010 at 9:58 am small boats carrying South [...]
NBC San Diego – Almost one year ago, a terrible accident at the Parade of Lights on Mission Bay took the life of 8-year-old Anthony Cole DeWeese. Organizers dedicated this year’s parade to DeWeese, who was killed December 20, 2009, when a coast guard boat crashed into his vessel. This year, the Coast Guard put [...]
Bangkok Post – One Chinese fisherman died and two others were missing after their trawler collided with a South Korean coastguard ship Saturday and capsized, officials and reports said. Four coastguard officers were also injured as they tried to arrest the crew of the Chinese boat for illegal fishing off South Korea’s Eocheong island in [...]
Sign On SD – The Coast Guard and San Diego Unified Port District were sued in federal court to enforce a 100-yard security zone requirement for cruise ships that dock at San Diego’s waterfront. The Navy Broadway Complex Coalition, which has been fighting the construction of a newly completed cruise ship terminal on Broadway Pier, [...]
Tacoma Daily – Sometime between Nov. 22 and Dec. 8, copper wire thieves broke into the mechanical room on the Murray Morgan Bridge and stole all of the wiring in the power and control panel that is used to raise and lower the bridge, according to City of Tacoma officials. As a result of this [...]
Independent – In a scathing report, Amnesty International claimed that irregular migrants sent back to Libya in July after Maltese and Libyan patrol boats allegedly split a boatload of migrants between them, were beaten and tortured by electric shock when they were returned to Libya. The incident had taken place on 17 July when a [...]
NECN – Shot, bludgeoned and even decapitated, dozens of dead pelicans have been washing ashore at a coastal town for six weeks, and officials are at a loss to explain why. Since the beginning of November, volunteers, wildlife officers and town workers have documented more than 60 pelican deaths that were apparently caused by human [...]
BC Local – Mounties have arrested a man suspected of a string of boat break-ins in marinas along Stewart Avenue. Dane Gordon Plensky, 25, of Nanaimo, was arrested. “We had information from the public and after placing posters, working criminal informants, talking to boat owners and reviewing video tape, we’re quite confident the male we [...]
24H – A young Canadian woman who survived an attack on her parent’s yacht off the coast of Honduras has opened up about the horrific ordeal that left her father dead. Myda Ergmajer, 24, watched as her father, Milan, was fatally shot in the chest four times last Thursday by pirates while their boat was [...]
Expatica – The Russian captain of a cargo ship that ran aground overnight in a river estuary in southwestern Netherlands was arrested in a drunken state and placed in custody. A test showed he had nearly four times the permitted amount of alcohol in his blood, said police spokesman Ad Kraszewski. The Belize-flagged boat carrying [...]
Mohave Daily News – A California man was acquitted of two felony charges in connection with the death of a 10-year-old girl in a boating accident near Topock in 2007. A San Bernardino County Superior Court july returned a guilty verdict only one of three charges against Michael Scott Brandon. The jury, which began deliberations [...]
HS Today – In April 2010, US Coast Guard intelligence officials reported that there’s been no credible terrorist threats identified against ferries and their facilities during the last year, even though maritime intelligence officials did identify the presence of terrorist groups that have the capability of attacking a ferry, according to the public version of [...]
USCIS – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Ocracoke repatriated 17 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Saturday, after they were interdicted at sea during two separate cases. While on routine patrol, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma located a rustic vessel 12 miles north of Punta Maisi, Cuba, Dec. 4, [...]
570 News – Prosecutors in St. Maarten announced Tuesday that three men have been arrested in connection with a smuggler’s boat that slammed into a reef off the British Virgin Islands and killed at least five Haitian migrants, including two children. Prosecutor Reink Mud said the three suspects are Haitians who legally live on the [...]
Deputies arrested a man operating a sailboat that was flying a foreign flag when it ran aground in the Banana River near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday morning. William J. Morris is being held without bond at the Brevard County Detention Center in Sharpes on charges of giving a false name or false [...]
The Sun – A fleet of suicide ships is being built by crackpot naval commanders in Iran. More than 9,000 speedboats have been made with deadly explosives engineered into their hulls. The vessels – to patrol the Persian Gulf where UK forces operate – will be piloted by extremist martyrs. They can be rammed into [...]
