Merchant Mariners
US ship rescues more stranded Iranians in Persian Gulf; Clinton assails Iran nuke activity
Questions mount over stricken ship
Ice threatens shipment of fuel to Alaska town
Coast Guard Academy May Ease Out Of New London
New Longdon- (The Courant) The Coast Guard Academy may move some programs out of New London if it cannot expand. The Day of New London reports that Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., the Coast Guard commandant, said in an interview Thursday the school has reached capacity along the Thames River. The Coast Guard offered to purchase a portion of an adjacent park, but city residents voted down the sale in November.
Coast Guard Mission to Nome Exposes U.S. Limits in Ice-Breaking Capability
Fire breaks out aboard atomic icebreaker vessel
Ferry Strikes Other Vessel While Leaving Dock
(WCVB) BOSTON -- A car ferry in the Massachusetts Steamship Authority Fleet was taken out of service Sunday morning after striking another vessel. READ MORENew law could sink Staten Island's maritime industry
Alang, Where Ships Go To Die
At Alang, in India, on a six-mile stretch of oily, smoky beach, 40,000 men tear apart half of the world's discarded ships, each one a sump of toxic waste. Environmentalists in the West are outraged. The shipbreakers, of course, want to be left alone -- and maybe they should be.


