Category: Health & Safety

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Boat Parade Safety 101

12/10/2021 - Whether you’re a spectator or a participant, nighttime boat parades featuring festive lights and creative boat and yacht displays can be one of the most fun and memorable traditions of the entire holiday season. From San Francisco’s famous Fisherman’s Wharf Holiday Lights & Sights Boat Parade to the Fort Lauderdale,… SEE MORE

Storm Sweeps Hawaii, Brings Threat of ‘Catastrophic’ Floods

12/7/2021 - By Caleb Jones. HONOLULU (AP) — A strong storm packing high winds and extremely heavy rain flooded roads and knocked out power across Hawaii, with officials warning Monday of potentially worse conditions ahead. The National Weather Service said the storm brings the threat of “catastrophic flooding” in the coming days… SEE MORE

How a Native American Tribe on Long Island is Losing its Land to Rising Seas

12/6/2021 - By Emma Newberger. SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The Shinnecock Indian Nation once had seasonal villages that stretched across the eastern end of Long Island. But after centuries of land loss and forced relocation, more than 600 tribe members now live on a shrinking 1.5 square mile peninsula. The Shinnecock, whose name… SEE MORE

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Science Report: US Should Make Less Plastic to Save Oceans

12/5/2021 - By Seth Borenstein. America needs to rethink and reduce the way it generates plastics because so much of the material is littering the oceans and other waters, the National Academy of Sciences says in a new report. The United States, the world’s top plastics waste producer, generates more than 46… SEE MORE

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Protect Your Boat and Crew this Whale Calving Season

12/2/2021 - If you plan to boat or fish in the Atlantic Ocean this winter, be on the lookout for North Atlantic Right Whales who are calving in state and federal waters off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina from November through April. These endangered mammals are extremely hard to spot and collisions have… SEE MORE

Gear Recycling Reaches Milestone in Commercial Fishing Communities

12/1/2021 - By Laine Welch. More than a million pounds of old fishing nets and lines from Alaska have made it to recycling markets so far, where they are remade into plastic pellets and fibers. The milestone was reached with a recent haul of nets from Dutch Harbor, and more are already… SEE MORE

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Multiple Downtown SF Skyscrapers Are Causing Entire Area to Slowly Sink

11/27/2021 - Much media attention has been lavished on the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower, a fix for which remains in the works. But the building's situation has perhaps brought attention to the fact that heavy buildings clustered in an area atop landfill and bay mud — an area of reclaimed land… SEE MORE

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Boating 101: The Importance of Ventilation

11/26/2021 - How often do you think about boat ventilation? One of the most amazing things about owning a yacht is how little red tape there is, or even laws to follow, compared to life ashore. The rules that do exist are generally there for good reason. If you own a boat… SEE MORE

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How to Fly Safer this Holiday Season

11/22/2021 - By Sandee LaMotte. If you're taking to the skies to visit friends and family over the holidays, be prepared to jostle your way through crowded airports, packed planes and frenzied baggage queues with millions of fellow travelers. "Everyone knows how close they're going to be with other people on a plane,"… SEE MORE

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NOAA Ocean Exploration Meets Major Mapping Milestone

11/20/2021 - Two million square kilometers. Or 772,204 square miles. That’s more than one quarter the size of the contiguous United States. And it’s the area of seafloor mapped by NOAA Ocean Exploration using the modern, high-resolution multibeam sonar system aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer since the ship was commissioned in 2008. Why We Map There’s so… SEE MORE

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