Category: Working the Water

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COAST GUARD RESCUE OF 5 on Disabled TUG; Canadian Ocean Rescue Tug Atlantic Raven Saves the Day

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Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound watchstanders communicate with a vessel in distress during a search and rescue case off the coast of La Push, Washington, …

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OUTLAW POACHER PIRATES OF THE CHESAPEAKE – Maryland updates top poachers and commercial license holders suspended and revoked; plea deal given to John Albert Vallandingham when he was caught with six bushels of oysters not kept under refrigeration

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John Albert Vallandingham was given a plea deal and avoided jail for selling unlawfully harvested oysters that were not refrigerated. DNR Police say they watched …

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CHRISTMAS on the CHESAPEAKE

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PAPERBACKS ARE IN STOCK AND DELIVERED BEFORE CHRISTMAS FROM AMAZON THE CHESAPEAKE: Six books in the series –Tales & Scales; Legends, Yarns, & Barnacles; Oyster …

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COAST GUARD TRAGEDY: Eleven crewmembers died due to the commanding officer of Cutter Cuyahoga failing to properly identify the running lights of a freighter, steering his vessel directly into the path of the Santa Cruz II in the Chesapeake Bay

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Rear Adm. Daniel Neptun addresses survivors of the Coast Guard Cutter Cuyahoga’s sinking at the 30th anniversary memorial at Training Center Yorktown, Va., Oct. 20, …