Category: Boating

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What Tide Is Best For Fishing?

3/13/2023 - By Adam Young. Our US Harbors Fishing Expert The impact of tides has huge implications when it comes to fishing and angler success. In fact, tides are some of the most powerful and influential forces on earth…but how can the common angler use these to their advantage? To start, anglers… SEE MORE

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Barry Loigman, M.D. (User:Bloigman), CC BY-SA 2.5 , 512px-Seawise_University_wreck via Wikimedia Commons

Newly released video shows Titanic wreckage before decades of deterioration

3/8/2023 - By Scott Stump New footage from the first time the wreckage of the Titanic was seen by human eyes has provided a rare look at the ship in its best condition since tragically sinking in 1912. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution recently released uncut footage from nearly 40 years ago… SEE MORE

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Frozen in Time: National Marine Sanctuary Researchers Discover Lost Shipwreck Ironton

3/7/2023 - By noaa.gov Researchers from NOAA, the state of Michigan, and Ocean Exploration Trust have discovered an intact shipwreck resting hundreds of feet below the surface of Lake Huron. Located within NOAA's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the shipwreck has been identified as the sailing ship Ironton. Magnificently preserved by the… SEE MORE

Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast By wikipedia.org

Archaeologists Believe a Piece of Flotsam That Washed Up on a New York Beach Could be Part of an 1821 Shipwreck

3/6/2023 - By Min Chen The SS Savannah was the first steam and sail hybrid vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Last October, a weathered hunk of flotsam washed up on a New York shoreline following Hurricane Ian. No plain marine debris, though, the wreckage, experts believe, could well have been part… SEE MORE

Shipwreck of the SS American Star on the shore of Fuerteventura via WikiCommons

The Hunt for an Elusive Florida Shipwreck That Killed 41 Enslaved People

3/5/2023 - By Karuna Eberl Searching for the slave ship Guerrero, the nonprofit Diving With a Purpose has also trained scores of young Black men and women to find and tell stories once lost to the waves. CARYSFORT REEF WAS DARK UNDER the new moon. Coral tentacles undulated with the changing tide,… SEE MORE

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How to Get Your Boat Ready for Spring

3/4/2023 - By scoutboats.com Make Spring Easier with Proper Winterizing If May rolls around, it’s a little late for this step, but you can always remember it for next year. To get your boat ready for spring, it helps to winterize the boat properly. By thoroughly preparing your boat for winter storage, it… SEE MORE

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When beaches are trashed, who pays the price?

3/1/2023 - By noaa.gov If you arrived at your dream beach only to find it littered with plastic and other rubbish, would you stay and play — or be on your way? A recent NOAA-funded study found that when the amount of marine debris normally on beaches is doubled, coastal economies could… SEE MORE

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Krishna M. Jackson, Public domain, US_Navy_120107-N-RP435-486_Boatswain's_Mate_3rd_Class_Moulton_LeBlanc_moors_a_U.S._Navy_coastal_patrol_boat_after_a_patrol_of_Kuwait_Naval_Base's_h via Wikimedia Commons

Recreational boating degrades vegetation important for fish recruitment

2/25/2023 - By springer.com Recreational boating increases globally and associated moorings are often placed in vegetated habitats important for fish recruitment. Meanwhile, assessments of the effects of boating on vegetation, and potential effects on associated fish assemblages are rare. Here, we analysed (i) the effect of small-boat marinas on vegetation structure, and… SEE MORE

Cindy Shebley, CC BY 2.0 , Everett_WA._-_USA_02_19_2020_Boat_mooring_with_Anthony's_Homeport_Resturant_on_Port_Gardner_bay._(49565791383) via Wikimedia Commons

Environmental impacts of increasing leisure boating activity in Mediterranean coastal waters

2/23/2023 - By www.sciencedirect.com [caption id="attachment_44806" align="alignnone" width="512"] 1950s_boat_Gloucester_Massachusetts_USA_5336085003 via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Leisure boating is an important economic activity which is increasing in popularity worldwide, and the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most popular nautical tourism destinations in the world. While the overall ecological impacts of recreational boating on freshwater ecosystems… SEE MORE

Lee Cannon from Bayville aka West Fenwick, DE, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , Two_U.S._Coast_Guard_patrol_boats_at_Coast_Guard_Station_Indian_River via Wikimedia Commons

Maine builder feeds the ‘tuna fever’

2/22/2023 - By www.nationalfisherman.com [caption id="attachment_44796" align="alignnone" width="512"] 512px-Big_Dipper_(boat)_01 via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine, has been building a lot of boats over the past year, and many of them are tuna boats. “The guys, they all got tuna fever,” says Wesmac’s owner, Steve Wessel. One of the tuna… SEE MORE