North Carolina has a history of leading. Yet they are lagging behind our fellow states when it comes to combating a growing problem that affects North Carolina intimately: plastic pollution.
Plastic debris breaks apart, not down, into microplastics, which are pieces 5 millimeters or smaller. Photo: NOAA
Leadership, action needed to reduce plastic pollution
CoastalReview.org
This article begins in the heartland, but scroll down for an east coast discussion. On the east coast, marine highway projects already have a high profile. Consider the 64-Express, at the Port of Virginia’s Richmond Marine Terminal, on the James River, operating since 2008. The Port estimates that 2020 barge transport eliminated nearly 20,000 truck trips. Many people are at least generally aware that one barge can carry 1,750 tons of dry cargo, a volume requiring 16 rail cars or 70 trucks.
Inland Waterways: A Crucible of Issues
Maritime Reporter – Tom Ewing
Charts are about to change in a big way. The paper charts we’ve used for decades are going away. So, too, are their electronic cousins, called Raster Navigational Charts. NOAA Custom Chart (NCC) is an online application that enables users to create their own customized nautical charts directly from the latest official NOAA electronic navigational chart (NOAA ENC®) data.
The accuracy of future charts depends on all of us using NOAA Custom Chart today.
PassageMaker
NOAA Custom Chart of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Greg Allard is an experienced cruiser and longtime contributor to CRUISERS NET. We are pleased to post his latest article, “Easy There, Pal,” as it appears in PASSAGEMAKER magazine. Thank you, Greg! For more articles by Greg Allard, type Allard in the search window of our Homepage.
Trawlers traveling together share the solitude of a remote anchorage at Warderick Wells in the Bahamas. Jim Pope
The Alliance for the Blue Economy (“All Blue”) is a local, multidisciplinary initiative to establish Wilmington and southeastern North Carolina as a national and global leader in the Blue Economy.
The Alliance for the Blue Economy
CoastalReview.org
In the dark of the deep ocean NOAA Remote Vehicles film creatures that could practically come from another world. They are fascinating, beautiful and mysterious.
Creep Into the Deep Halloween Videos!!!
National Ocean Service, NOAA
If you love wooden boats, you will appreciate the history of this vessel.
U.S. Coast Guard Locates Wreck of Famed Cutter USRC Bear
Maritime Executive
Sailing 4 Smiles is a team of regular and part time licensed dental providers, sailing professionals and volunteers who are committed to helping others. During a stop in St. Augustine, S4S enjoyed the architecture, history and a visit to The Webster School Head Start Program.
Today, an estimated 90 percent of the world’s goods are transported by sea, with 60 percent of that – including virtually all your imported fruits, gadgets and appliances – packed in large steel containers.
A Brief History of the Shipping Container PUBLISHED SEP 30, 2021 10:52 PM BY ANNA NAGURNEY
Maritime Executive
A recently launched website from NOAA’s Precision Marine Navigation (PMN) program will improve the use and accessibility of NOAA’s marine navigation products and services. The website, Marine Navigation, includes links and short descriptions to NOAA’s various navigation resources, providing a one-stop shop that mariners can visit to get the data they need.
New NOAA website provides marine navigation resources in a central location
NOAA Office of Coast Survey
Historian David Cecelski illustrates with photos and family lore the story of fishers from Down East Carteret County who found their way to Lake Erie more than a century ago.
Whitehurst fishery: A Down East community on Lake Erie
CoastalReview.org
Under the leadership of Lt. Mike Day, local Coast Guard units marshalled a force of volunteer mariners to pick up survivors and carry them across the harbor to safety. When the local Coast Guard commander put out the call for “all available boats” to make their way to lower Manhattan to help rescue people stranded due to the closure of bridges and tunnels, the response was widespread and immediate. An armada of tugboats, ferries and other vessels quickly arrived on the scene and, in a collective undertaking of tremendous skill and grit, safely evacuated 500,000 people. It was the largest maritime evacuation in history, even exceeding the heroic achievement at Dunkirk in 1940.
9/11: Remembering the Heroes of the Lower Manhattan Boatlift
Maritime Executive
The Coast Guard and American Maritime: A Vital Post-9/11 Partnership
Maritime Executive
This article is scary. The experience is one of life or death and the advice given is worth heeding.
Commentary: My firsthand experience with an algal bloom
CoastaleReview.org
In a year with very few tropical systems, Hurricane Four of 1913 received barely a notice by the Raleigh office of the Weather Bureau of the United States.
A shipwreck believed to be the George W. Wells is shown on Ocracoke Island after being exposed by waves produced by passing Hurricane Teddy in September 2020. Photo: Cape Lookout National Seashore
1913 storm thrashed ships, and a rescue led to accusations
CoastalReview.org
Through Charles Farrell’s photographs of Sneads Ferry in the 1930s, historian David Cecelski learned the stories and people of Onslow County fishing village.
Our Coast’s History: Remembering 1930s Sneads Ferry
CoastalReview.org
Climate change is changing Earth in ways that are “unprecedented” and “irreversible,” according to a report released by the United Nations on Monday.
‘Unprecedented’ and ‘irreversible’: U.N. releases blistering assessment of the state of climate change
United Nations
Human-caused warming has led to an “almost complete loss of stability” in the system that drives Atlantic Ocean currents, a new study has found — raising the worrying prospect that this critical aquatic “conveyor belt” could be close to collapse.
A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds
The Washington Post
A Crucial System of Ocean Currents Is Faltering, Research Suggests
The New York Times
Climate Scientists Detect Warning Signs of Gulf Stream Collapse
EcoWatch
Seriously , Is this some what like the movie on this same subject ??
Many ocean lovers anchor to pursue their favorite pastime. While some are careful when anchoring, others aren’t. Carelessly or maliciously dropping anchors onto reefs causes serious harm to the reef below.
OPINION: CARELESS ANCHORING HURTS OUR REEFS
Florida Keys Weekly
Roger Long is an experienced yachtsman, Waterway cruiser and frequent contributor to Cruisers Net, Thank you, Roger, for this discussion of proper navigation protocols.
Garmin has a great auto-route product, but most not only don't know this, if they did wouldn't take the time to look at the manual to change the settings.
These are the same people who either don't know about their wake or misinterpret making a wake so they stop well into a marina setting thinking they are complying with a no-wake zone.
Boaters with a checkbook and little else will always be a plague to boating UNTIL a proper education requirement is instituted.
Historian David Cecelski found interviews from the Great Depression from a seaman from Ocracoke, a country doctor from Lake Mattamuskeet, a Norwegian dredge boatman in Beaufort, a washerwoman in Elizabeth City and others.
Hard times: Voices from the Great Depression on NC coast
CoastalReview.org
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