May
28
When Navigation Bouys Get Moved: Coast Guard Local Notices to Mariners
May 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Above: a red nun buoy in real life. Ships and boats returning to port will leave red nuns to starboard; hence “red right returning.”
The Coast Guard recently moved numerous nav buoys and added a few more to re-mark the Beaufort Inlet Channel off Sha…
May
20
VHF radio Mayday and Pan-Pan calls, Hampton Roads, Virginia
May 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Crew patch, Coast Guard Hampton Roads, VA
The Coast Guard often issues pan-pan calls on channel 16 after they receive a mayday from someone in trouble. That someone in trouble can include sea kayakers.
In the audio above, recorded by a coastal mid-…
May
19
Gulf Oil Spill: Coast Guard Holds Bloggers Roundtable
May 19, 2010 | Comments Off
The Coast Guard’s Mary Landry, the fed’s response commander for the Gulf oil spill, welcomes bloggers to a telephone roundtable and takes questions. The audio is crisp, and shows how seriously the Coast Guard and other federal agencies have begun to ta…
May
18
Upcoming Hikes: Call to “Sign On”
May 18, 2010 | Comments Off
Here are some upcoming trips; training for the Colorado Trail… please leave a comment or (even better!) call me if you’re interested in signing on for any of the “fun”: Sanitarado, Boulder, CO: 22 Miles Friday, May 21 – call for time. What: A one-day run/hike from Mount Sanitas to Eldorado Mountain Type of event: [...]
May
18
Kayak / Canoe Races and Events For May and June 2010
May 18, 2010 | Comments Off
With kayak and canoe season well underway, we’re glad to bring you the following information on some really great paddling events happening around the country.
May
14
Undersea Robotic Oil Spill Videos: the Leak at the Wellhead and Crumpled Riser in the Gulf of Mexico
May 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Above: Oil only, and the robotic arm moves in to fiddle with the insensible blowout preventer.
Ugly stuff. Biggest problem with the video is it provides no sense of scale. We don’t know what the diameter of the plume is and thus can’t judge the size …
May
13
Estes Park Library Presents Go Wild Presentation in August
May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
KAYAKING THE INSIDE PASSAGE: TACOMA, WASHINGTON TO GLACIER BAY, ALASKA: (August 9) In May 2009, Phil Magistro and Apryle Craig embarked on a 1,250 mile sea kayak journey along the Inside Passage—through Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Join Phil and Apryle as they describe their 111-day experience along the coast, share photos and video, and [...]
May
13
No Internet Access – Call, Please
May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Hello everyone. We are officially moved out of our cabin and into our rental property unit B. Our cabin is available to rent nightly through the River Rock Cottages, Estes Park, Colorado. We do not have internet access at our new place, so if you haven’t received a return email lately or it’s been really [...]
May
13
BP Oil Spill in the Gulf: Local Fishermen Begin to Receive Checks for Loss of Wages
May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
An interview from Voice of America with a Mississippi oyster fisherman whose business has been shut down by the Gulf oil spill.
A large class of potential litigants, most Louisana oystermen lease estuarine seabed from the local state or county governm…
May
13
The Gulf Oil Spill a Month After the Fire
May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
As the upwards of 210,000 gallons of crude per day continue to gush from the hole in the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico, BP’s Doug Suttles, in characteristic calm to the point of blase’, cheerily explains that the technical challenges of plugging …
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