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search & rescue

America’s Heavy Icebreakers Are Both Broken Down

America’s Heavy Icebreakers Are Both Broken Down – Dot Earth Blog – NYTimes.com. While not exactly related to our industry, this story is just another in a long line of failures coming from that bureaucracy known as the USCG. Perhaps the funding would have been approved years ago if it was Afghanistan that needed ice [...]

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June 27, 2010 Read the full article →

Going out on a limb

I’m going to go out on a limb. I mean it. Don’t think I won’t, ’cause I will. I am going on a real bender; around the bend. I am going to jump off the cliff.  One giant step for the blogosphere, one small stumble for me. Oh my god Doug, get to the point [...]

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April 11, 2010 Read the full article →

Hear SPOT Run

Skip Shute over at Sea/Tow Tampa Bay provides this audio clip of the USCG talking with a boat they have been searching for for hours. It seems this guy is out sailing on a nice day, and his SPOT stopped transmitting his position. This caused the sailor’s father to grow concerned and he called the [...]

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April 2, 2010 Read the full article →

SPOT Assist Maritime

Sheesh, I take a few months off in the sunny Bahamas and now I’m playing catch-up. I just found out about the new collaboration between BOAT/US and Spot Satellite Personal Tracker. It’s called SPOT Assist Maritime. The cut & paste: Works Where Cell Phones and VHF Radio Don’t SPOT sends your messages and GPS locations [...]

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April 1, 2010 Read the full article →

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