Charlie Foxtrot

(coastguardnews) The Coast Guard adjourned the formal hearings, Thursday, concerning the Jan. 23, 2010, incident involving the tank vessel Eagle Otome, the Gull Arrow and the tug Dixie Vengeance. The incident resulted in more than 400,000 gallons of oil being spilled into the Sabine-Neches waterway.  READ MORE

(beaumontenterprise)  By the time Eagle Otome's bow cut across the middle of the Sabine-Neches Waterway, the Dixie Vengeance's leading barge had nowhere to go but straight into the tanker's massive orange hull, the towboat captain testified Wednesday.  READ MORE

(coastguardnews) The Coast Guard has suspended its search for two missing people after a vessel allegedly capsized in the Rockaways near Queens, N.Y., today around 10 a.m.  READ MORE

(coastguardnews) A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man stranded on a sandbar at the north end of Kiawah Island Sunday afternoon.  READ MORE

(daily echo) A LIFEBOAT stopped a family's 26ft yacht from grounding on a shingle bank this morning.  The RNLI Yarmouth lifeboat was launched at 7.15am to rescue a crew of two adults and two children after their boat had engine failure and was drifting dangerously close to the Shingles bank in the western Solent. READ MORE

(marinelink) The ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre issued a special report on the hijacking of the tug Asta and the barge Callista. An earlier report indicated that the tug and barge were probably hijacked on Feb. 6 off the coast of Malaysia while on a voyage from Singapore to Cambodia. Alerts were issued seeking information on these vessels.  READ MORE

(thestar) Cold and shivering, Canadian teenagers kept their spirits up by singing as they bailed water from life rafts for the 42 hours they spent adrift in the south Atlantic, a teacher said today.  READ MORE

(marinelink) The owner of a tug that released oily bilge water into the Columbia River last year is being penalized $21,000 by the Washington Department of Ecology. Sound Freight Lines’ tug Black Hawk discharged an estimated 150 gallons of lubricating and diesel oils while transiting near Willow Grove on the Columbia River during the morning hours of Jan. 29, 2009.  READ MORE

(miamiherald) After deliberating for three hours, a jury on Thursday evening decided Jeremy Rettman was responsible for the death of a 21-year-old friend who was killed in a boating accident two years ago.  READ MORE