(coastguardnews) A helicopter crew based in Cape Cod, Mass., is en route to airlift a
39-year old crewman from an Isle of Man-flagged tanker about 250 miles
southeast of Cape Cod, Mass., Tues., Feb. 2, 2010.  Source

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• Coast Guard rescues fishermen in Cape Cod Bay

     (coastguardnews) Two fishermen that went missing about eight miles east of the Cape Cod Canal in Cape Cod Bay, Mass., are safe after being rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew around 9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009.  Source

• Couple rescued 2 hours after boat capsized

     (coastguardnews)  Two people are safe despite spending more than two hours in the water without life jackets after their boat capsized about 10 miles northwest of Racepoint, off the northern tip of Cape Cod Mass., Monday. Source

• Coast Guard Communication Station Boston to hold Change of Command

     (coastguardnews)  Coast Guard Communication Station Boston is scheduled to hold a change of command ceremony at the Massachusetts Military Reservation in Cape Cod, Mass., Oct. 23, 2009, at 11 a.m.  Source

• Cape Wind Energy Project Open for Comment

     (marinelink) As part of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s commitment to issue a decision on the application for the Cape Wind Energy Project, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is accepting public comments on the historic preservation aspects of the project.  The proposed Cape Wind project would place 130 turbines

• EU rescue fleet, Pakistan abandoned ship by Somali pirates

    A European Union warship rescued a Pakistan-flagged fishing vessel Somali pirates had seized last month and used to hijack another ship, EU naval force Navfor said in a statement.

• Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba towing boat off Gloucester

     (coastguardnews)  The Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba is continuing to tow the Gloucester-based lobster boat that was disabled Wednesday with five people aboard more than 200 miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass.  Source

• Fisherman medevaced from the boat 135 miles off the coast

     (coastguardnews)  The Coast Guard airlifted a 51-year-old man experiencing heart-attack symptoms from a fishing boat 135 miles east of Provincetown, Mass. today.  Source

• Coast Guard, Search for Gloucester lobsterman

     (coastguardnews) The Coast Guard suspended its search at 10:10 a.m., Wednesday for Jaime Ortiz, who fell overboard from the lobster vessel Dominatrix about three miles south of Eastern Point in Gloucester, Mass., Tuesday afternoon.  Source

• Coast Guard search through the night for Gloucester Fishermen

     (coastguardnews)  Multiple Coast Guard crews are continuing to search for the man who fell overboard from the fishing vessel Dominatrix Tuesday afternoon about three miles south of Eastern Point in Gloucester, Mass.  Missing is Jaime Ortiz, 43.  Source

• Good Samaritan saves 8 in the vicinity of Cape May, NJ

     (coastguardnews)  A Good Samaritan rescued eight people who were aboard a sinking 48-foot boat 55 miles east of Cape May Saturday.  Source

• Pirate attacks against ships dodging in the Indian Ocean

     (marinelink)  On the early morning of 10 November 2009 some 1000 nautical miles east from Mogadishu, Somalia, pirates attacked MV Nele Maersk, a Danish flagged Container ship. The attack took place not far from the area crude oil tanker BW Lion was attacked

• Coast Guard responds to boat stranded in Sesuit Harbor

     (Cape Cod Times) The Coast Guard responded to a 40-foot vessel that ran aground on a jetty in Sesuit Harbor in Cape Cod Bay near Dennis, Sunday Feb. 28, 2010 Source

• Talks with Somali pirates to free Bulgarian Sailors Home

    Negotiations with Somali pirates to free the two hijacked ships, both with Bulgarian sailors aboard – UK-flagged cargo ship “The Asian Glory” and the chemical tanker “St James Park,” have already started. The information was revealed by Captain Prodan Prodanov, the Bulgarian-based manager of the UK Zodiac company, which operates

• Scientists go to great garbage patch in the Pacific

     (USAtoday) A group of scientists is sailing out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to study the mass of floating plastic trash that could be twice the size of Texas, The San Jose Mercury News reports.  The debris is located about 1,000 miles west of California and includes everything from old fishing

• Cargo ship \ u0026quot; was hijacked by pirates \ u0026quot;

    A Russian-crewed cargo ship that went missing for more than two weeks was hijacked by pirates, Russia’s defense minister said Tuesday. “The hijackers boarded the Arctic Sea, threatened the crew with weapons and demanded that their orders be followed,” Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told President Dmitry Medvedev, according to the