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In February,2012 I blogged about a Spanish company that was drilling a deepwater exploratory oil well 30 miles north of Cuba and just 70 miles south of the Florida Keys. view blog here. I expressed concern because the rig was drilling in water 6500 feet deep which is 1500 feet deeper than the water the Deepwater Horizon was drilling in at the time it was destroyed in 2010 causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Read More
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On April 20, 2012, Levin, Papantonio attorney , Gerald A. McGill was honored at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy located in New London, Connecticut. He was inducted into the Wall of Gallantry and a plaque with his graduation yearbook photograph and his Citation was placed on the Wall located in Chase Hall which houses the entire Corps of Cadets. Mr. McGill was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat “V” for action against an enemy vessel during the Viet Nam war. The award was made by the President of the United States and signed by Admiral John J. Hyland, United States Navy, Commander in Chief, U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet. The Citation reads: Read More
The Titanic is the most infamous ship of all times, but for Americans the super tanker Exxon Valdez is a close second.
On March 24. 1989 the Exxon Valdez ran aground on a well-marked reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound spilling at least 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Bay. As damaging as that spill turned out to be for the Alaskan ecosystem , it could have been much worse. The Exxon Valdez was a 1,000 foot long supertanker that was carrying 53 million gallons of crude oil from Valdez, Alaska to a refinery in Long Beach, Cqalifornia. Read More
MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard continues the search for three missing Coast Guard crewmembers and the salvage of the sunken helicopter in Mobile Bay, Thursday.
Overnight, a crew aboard the Ben R. Johnson, a 57-foot salvage vessel, recovered the helicopter fuselage from the bottom of Mobile Bay. The fuselage did not contain the bodies of the three missing crewmembers. Read More
For the second time in as many months the Genoa Italy-based Costa Crociere Cruise Lines is receiving unwanted, unfavorable publicity in the world news. This time it is the cruise ship Costa Allegra which lost power and began drifting in the Indian Ocean after a fire in the ship's generator room. When at sea the generators supply all the electrical power for the ship. No one was reported injured in the fire but the ship was left without power, lights, communications, air conditioning or functioning toilets.
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Last Friday Mike Underhill, a U.S. Justice Department lawyer who is the federal government's lead lawyer in an upcoming trial to determine fault for the 2010 blowout of the Macondo well off the Louisianna coast, urged judges to make public the voluminous documents, depositions and other evidence gathered in preparation for a Februaary 27, 2012 trial date in the United States District Court in New Orleans. Read More
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