U.S. Coast Guard

Senate Finally Approves $50.5 Billion in Sandy Relief

The Senate has approved a $50.5 billion measure to benefit Superstorm Sandy victims. Even though the storm hit three months ago, relief funding has been delayed by conservative senators' concerns about raising the already-scary national debt. As we told you earlier this month, some residents in ar ... More >>

Fuel Rationing Now Called "Temporary Gasoline Management Plan" -- And It Will Be in Full Effect Tomorrow

The term "fuel rationing" has a certain apocalyptic, Carter-esque connotation. But don't worry, we're not doing that here in New York City. Starting tomorrow, the Big Apple and surrounding counties won't be rationing fuel; they will be implementing their "temporary gasoline management plan" (read: f ... More >>

Sandy Intensifies; Situations Worsens; Police, Fire Straining to Respond to Rescue Calls

As the storm intensifies tonight, reports of calamity are flowing in, particularly in the Rockaways, sections of Queens and Brooklyn. A city ambulance on Beach Channel Drive in southeastern Queens was reported surrounded with water, and the crew was sitting on the roof asking for a rescue. A fire i ... More >>

Federal Pension Lawsuit Expanded For All City Workers Called to Military Duty After 9/11

All city workers called to military duty after 9/11 will be represented in a lawsuit to recover unpaid pension funds. In early August, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three retired NYPD officers seeking to recoup pension funds they would've earned had ... More >>

Horror in Uniform

The Invisible War reveals a military that is “target rich” for sexual predators

U.S. Seizes $180 Million Worth of Cocaine From "Semi-Submarine" off Honduran Coast

Cocaine, but not this cocaine.​The Coast Guard announced they intercepted and seized a semi-submersible vessel, its five-man crew and 7.5 tons of cocaine. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection airplane spotted the fiberglass semi-submarine and a Coast Guard cutter caught up to it off the Caribb ... More >>

Bombs in Gravesend Bay Make Coast Guard Think People Should Not Go There

​The Coast Guard has permanently barred boats from passing through a portion of Gravesend Bay that is apparently littered with bombs. While thisseems like it would be a good move for boaters, it also means that the 1,500 unexploded anti-aircraft shells sitting in the water may continue to sit ... More >>

Nazi Sabotage Team Sent to America Was Hilariously Inept

"Hogan!"​In 1942, a team of Nazi saboteurs armed with bomb-making supplies and instructions to perform multiple acts of terrorism emerged on the shores of Long Island and Florida. Details of this mission from a MI5 intelligence officer were recently declassified, Yahoo reports, and they paint ... More >>

Disney Cruise Line Worker Missing at Sea

​A Disney Cruise Liner that left from Los Angeles on Sunday is reporting that a crew member on "The Disney Wonder" has gone missing. The crew realized that the unidentified worker was missing on Tuesday when he didn't show up for his morning shift. The boat docked Wednesday in Puerto Vallarta, ... More >>

Oil in the Gulf is Not Quite Gone

​Though the Louisiana oil spill has all but faded from the public consciousness, fishermen in the region have reportedly discovered "miles-long strings of weathered oil," despite the U.S. Coast Guard claims that little more could be done in terms of clean-up. The local Times-Picayune has a jar ... More >>

BP Well to Be Sealed By Saturday, Says BP

The good old days.​Hey, everybody, remember that well in the Gulf? The one that broke a while back, and leaked its oil everywhere, and got all over a bunch of birds, and fish, and shrimp, and people? Oh, come on, remember? Yeah, it was a long time ago that happened. Like, before the summer eve ... More >>

Update: Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf

via WAFB​Not even kidding, though we wish we were. An offshore oil rig owned by Mariner Energy exploded this morning west of the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, about 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay along the central Louisiana coast. Update: CNN reports that according to Louisian ... More >>

"Squeezing" Is Not a Sex Move, and Other Things We Learned During the Summer of BP

via NYT​When we look back at these hazy days of summer 2010, we'll remember oil, for sure, and birds and models in oil (thank you, Italian Vogue), and a smattering of strange, mystical, rather sexual-sounding phrases, like "junk shot," "top kill," "tar balls," "bottom kill," "annulus," "bullhe ... More >>

Lightning Strikes BP Drill Ship; People Start to Wonder

​First Jesus, now BP. Lightning is smiting things all over the place! A bolt struck a drill ship siphoning oil from the Gulf of Mexico today, starting a fire that stopped efforts to contain the leak. Temporarily, thank...ahem.

The Other Gulf Oil Rig Quietly Spilling Right Now: Explained and Exposed

​Here's a strange one: a filing by Ben Raines at the Alabama Press-Register on Monday evening shows up online with a headline announcing "Another Gulf oil spill: Well near Deepwater Horizon has leaked since at least April 30." Some bloggers may have noted it. But why aren't we hearing anything ... More >>

Of Tarballs and Permission Passes: The BP Oil Disaster Rages Forward

​BP's underwater oil geyser that's spewing the black bile of the earth into the ocean at a few thousand gallons a day is still working! In fact, it's working so well that byproducts have started to wash up on the shores of Key West: like those beautiful treasures of the ocean, sea shells, exce ... More >>

Paterson Hands Control of Governors Island to City

​New York's next hot tourist destination will have 87 acres of green space, a view of the Manhattan skyline, and a moat. Governor Paterson announced today that the state is turning over control of development on a 150-acre patch of Governors Island to the Governors Island Operating Entity, w ... More >>

Cargo Ship Ruptures in Gravesend Bay, Causing Evacuation

​A 443 foot cargo tanker, the Sichem Defiance, suffered an internal rupture yesterday morning in Gravesend Bay. The rupture occurred while the vessel was being loaded with 55,000 barrels of ethanol. Rescue boats from the NYPD, FDNY and the Coast Guard rushed to the scene, where they found the ... More >>

Swimmer Feared Lost in Rockaway Waters

​Another swimmer in the Rockaways appears to have died. Heyward Patterson, also known as Winky, had a few drinks and took a dip with friends near 15th Street Beach in the early morning hours and vanished. He was on disability and living with his mother. The Coast Guard has been searching the w ... More >>

Lost Rockaways Swimmer's Body Believed Found

​Monday night Anthony Bolden, his friend Jacob Ried, and his sister Sabrina Hicks were relaxing in Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways when Ried, who'd gone swimming, was seen to struggle. Bolden tried to assist him, and wound up lost. The Coast Guard went looking for him, then called off its se ... More >>

Pirate School, For the Merchant Sailor in You

The three Arrrrrs: Maritime schools tackle the seafaring menace

S.I. Ferry Crash Hurts 15

The Coast Guard calls it an "allision." You know it as a crash. Last night around 7 p.m. the John J. Marchi, a Staten Island Ferry vessel, hit the pier a little too hard and too directly (glancing blows are common), injuring 15. Fortunately the worst casualty seems to be a man with a dislocated elb ... More >>

The Hesitant Triumph of Britney Spears

Her fans scream, her circus-themed antics mesmerize, and her wardrobe functions just fine

Man Saves New York, And Wants Everyone To Know

Man saves New York!The San Jose Mercury News took a moment today to profile a codger who back in the day put out a fire on board an ammo-loaded ship in New York City harbor, thus, according to the story, stopping the blaze from "taking out greater New York City.""It was a close call for New York Cit ... More >>

Street Artist Swoon Deemed Pirate by NYC Cops

Joyful Yetis on the Open Sea

The sludgy, swampy delirium of Clutch is perfect for maritime marriage proposals

A Submarine Found in the Harbor? Blame RISD

'The Guardian'

Life of Riley

Anchors Way, Way Away

Port Security and the Politics of a Good Story

Ports: All 'Bout a Dealer Named Bout

A Russian arms merchant funnels money, guns, and dope through the United Arab Emirates

Barricading the Storm

Why the White House Won't Release Its Katrina Papers

'Yours, Mine & Ours'

Feeling Insecure

There's no defense for some of the government's defense plans, even for D.C.

Rita in Texas, Protesters in D.C.

President Bush Seeks Shelter From the Storms

Morning Report 9/14/05
Picking Up Pieces in Baghdad, New Orleans

A Long-Simmering Stew

Bush, You Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do

Big-on-terror White House wasn’t ready for Katrina

Leisurely Bush, Bumbling Feds

Only the Coast Guard looks good after Hurricane Katrina

When the Levees Broke

Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society

Music

The Next Attack?

Collision Course

Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

Water Is Wide

Based on a True Story

Glazed and Confused

Nation

Nation

Eyes Wide Shut

Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype