Coast Guard Bomb Dog in Training

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Jan. 16, 2007)--Coast Guard Petty Officer Fred Leland and his black Labrador retriever, Asia, are lowered from a helicopter for the mock overtaking of a Catalina Express ferry near the Port of L.A. January 17, 2007. Asia was trained at Auburn University to sniff out explosives. She is one of two Coast Guard explosives detecting dogs dedicated to homeland security in the L.A. area. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Prentice Danner.

Use your BRAINS in Evaluating Boating Accident Risks

BRAINS is a tool that enables you to isolate the effect of a specific variable, or a group of variables, on the probability of having a specific type of boating accident (based on the relationships between variables in the Boating Accident Report Database (BARD), which is the universe of all reported accidents).

The Coast Guard does not know if variable relationships of non-reported accidents are similar to those reported in BARD. BRAINS also gives you the flexibility to make predictions using variable combinations that are not frequently occurring in BARD.

Dwayne

Grieving parents call for mercy

Roger Frechette is still grieving over the loss of his 2-year-old son. But he says that putting the man responsible for that death on trial -- and possibly in prison -- would only compound the tragedy. The man charged with driving a water scooter onto a Windermere boat dock and killing the boy was Frechette's best friend. Dwayne

Dobbs pleads guilty to misdemeanors in Harding boating accident

Derek William Dobbs, 21, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts, carrying a maximum sentence of nearly three years in jail, in connection with the boating accident that killed Hendersonville teenager Emily Harding in May 2005.

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Dwayne

Marco Island Boating Accident - Moulter Family

This was a terrible accident.  Cause to be determined.  The father, friends and family share the grief.

This article regarding the impact of the accident on boating in the area.

Dwayne

Lost At Sea, Sailor Calls Home For Help - Ken Barnes - Rescued by Ship

(AP) The calls have been steady, giving updates about a Southern California man adrift alone on his storm-battered sailboat off the tip of South America.

They haven't always come from law enforcement and other officials, though. Word of Ken Barnes' status has come from the stranded sailor himself, who has been able to ease his family's concerns by satellite phone as an intense search-and-rescue effort continues off the coast of Chile with hopes that help will reach him by Thursday evening.

Update on search for sailor.  His site www.kensolo.com

Second update on Barnes.

Another solo sailor Donna Lange at www.donnalange.com is looking for Barnes on the open ocean.

Ken Barnes has been rescued. Good to see a happy ending to this sea story!

Dwayne

 

Lake Havasu rated nation's 11th most dangerous waterway

Lake Havasu is the nation's 11th most dangerous waterway, according to figures released Friday through the state Department of Game & Fish.

The list, which was compiled by the U.S. Coast Guard, is based on a waterway's number of accidents. Fatalities do not factor in, said Kevin Bergersen, Arizona Game & Fish boating law administrator.

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Nearman Faces In Okoboji Boating Death

A South Dakota man charged in a deadly boating accident on West Lake Okoboji is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow in Spirit Lake.

Justin Nearman of Sioux Falls is accused of driving a boat that hit the back of another boat, killing Michael Brosnahan of Perry and injuring his wife, Jill, in August 2005.

Nearman pleaded guilty in November to one count of operating a boat while intoxicated resulting in the death of another person. He faces up to 25 years in prison.

Sentencing is set for 1:00 PM Thursday in Dickinson County District Court.

Nearman was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

 

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