N.C. Man Runs Up $45k Bill for Fake Distress Call- Editor H2ONotes [ 9/24/2008 - 07:57 ] # NEWPORT, N.C. - A U.S. district judge sentenced a Newport, N.C., man to 60 months probation on Sept. 16, and the court imposed restitution in the amount of $45,292.78 for a false distress call that resulted in search and rescue efforts from multiple agencies.
On Sept. 20, 2007, Joe D. Mills Jr. used a handheld VHF radio from his front yard to fraudulently report a vessel taking on water to Coast Guard Sector North Carolina. The distress call was recorded and specifically referenced the Coast Guard. more...
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BoatU.S. and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sign Agreement- Editor H2ONotes [ 9/2/2008 - 12:58 ] # ALEXANDRIA, VA, Sept. 2, 2008 - Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatU.S.) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service joined forces today to reinforce the values of sport fishing through a public information campaign called The Ethical Angler. The campaign is built around a simple code of responsible fishing practices developed by BoatU.S. that both organizations will promote. more
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Great Lakes Compact loophole allows bottled water- Editor H2ONotes [ 8/31/2008 - 08:40 ] # Lawmakers and concerned environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the Great Lakes Compact just weeks before the historic agreement may be ratified by Congress. They say a loophole would allow businesses to sell bottled Great Lakes water -- exactly what the compact was supposed to prevent. more...
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Rescuers pull Michigan man safely from Lake Erie- Editor H2ONotes [ 6/30/2008 - 15:20 ] # ROCKWOOD, Mich. - A Carleton, Mich., man who drifted away from his boat in Lake Erie yesterday while trying to repair a motor problem was rescued after floating in the water for almost an hour, authorities said. more...
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Don't let a lightning storm strike you off guard- Editor H2ONotes [ 6/22/2008 - 18:24 ] # The deaths near Howell were such a big deal back in 1908, they made the New York Times: "LIGHTNING KILLS THREE," the headline read. "Two Michigan women struck in farmhouse, man on railroad track."
A century later, Michigan weather was in the national news again. This time, the outcome was happier: BreAnna Helsel, 16, was hit by lightning on June 6 as she closed a window at her family's Blanchard home during a rainstorm, but she survived. more...
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Apostle Island Wisconsin named top National Park in America- Editor H2ONotes [ 6/20/2008 - 07:07 ] #
WKOMTV Madison (6/17)
Wisconsin's Apostle Islands National Park, located on Lake Superior, unexpectedly offers visitors the opportunity to go deep in search of fun while scuba diving to area shipwrecks among the park's 21 islands. more...
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Convicted sex offender nabbed at sea- Editor H2ONotes [ 5/1/2008 - 13:22 ] #
By Joe Pagan
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office
apprehended a convicted sex offender from Georgia on Tuesday off Port
Canaveral.
Stephen Alexander Bell, 40, of Tybee Island, Ga., was arrested at about
9:30 p.m. on charges of violating probation and possession of a stolen
vessel, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, Donnie Brzuska, said.
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New Lakeshore plans unveiled- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/24/2008 - 10:48 ] # National Park Service staffers put together four alternative plans
to guide the future of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Park patrons put together their own.
You won’t find the “preferred alternative” for future park
management released last week solely within one proposal that was
discussed at a series of meetings hosted by the Park Service a year ago
as part of the process for writing a new “20-year”General Management
Plan (GMP) for the Lakeshore, according to superintendent Dusty Shultz. more...
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West Michigan Underwater Preserve would feature Lake Michigan shipwrecks- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/23/2008 - 11:04 ] #  By Eric Gaertner
About 8,000 ships have become wrecked in the Great Lakes, according
to researchers, and the cold, fresh water keeps them better preserved
than those found in oceans.
In West Michigan, the shipwrecks mainly came from the local traffic
of lumber schooners or small passenger steamers and vessels in transit
from Milwaukee or Chicago to the Straits of Mackinac, shipwreck
historian and researcher Brendon Baillod said. more...
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Yacht rescued three times in a week- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/19/2008 - 23:40 ] #  Emergency crews from a Hampshire lifeboat station were called to
rescue the same yacht three times in a week after it repeatedly came
into trouble in the waters of the Solent.
The crew of the yacht Humbug were forced to call out Gosport and
Fareham Inshore Rescue Service as they struggled against a spell of
wild weather on the water as they made there way to Southampton. more...
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Dog rescued after months at sea- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/19/2008 - 23:38 ] # Snickers the Sea Dog is barely more than a pup, but he's already
an old salt.
The eight-month-old pooch spent three months adrift on a
15-metre boat and survived four months on tiny Fanning Island -
1609 kilometres south of Hawaii - where his owners left him after
their sailing boat ran aground last December. more...
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Work going well on America's Cup challenger in Anacortes- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/15/2008 - 11:18 ] #  By
Associated PressWork is going well on a new boat for BMW Oracle Racing, the U.S. challenger for the 33rd America's Cup, team officials said.
The boat is the third yacht in the history of the sailing race to be built in this town about 100 miles north of Seattle.
The
multihull yacht is being built for the team from San Francisco's Golden
Gate Yacht Club to race for the trophy this year. Janicki Industries in
nearby Sedro-Woolley is providing high-technology precision tooling.
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Shifting Winds Affect the Mids' Sailing Program- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/9/2008 - 00:18 ] # 
By Angus Phillips
Spring is in the air. Around the Cheasapeake, boatyards are buzzing as drydocked sail and power boats are readied for the season. An exception is at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where a change in philosophy is raising concern for one of the recent rites of passage for midshipmen.
For years, mids by the hundreds went to sea in the summer on one or
another of the academy's fleet of 44-foot sloops to spend a week or two
in close quarters, dealing with whatever the ocean threw at them
between here and New England.
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N.Y. opposes plan for Lake Ontario levels- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/8/2008 - 23:54 ] # 
By Steve Orr
In an unusual last-minute appeal, Gov. David Paterson has asked U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to urge reconsideration of a new
plan to regulate Lake Ontario water levels. The International
Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canada treaty organization, is expected to
release its proposed regulatory plan this morning. The panel has been
deliberating behind closed doors for months on its new approach to the
always-contentious subject of lake-level control. more...
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Perch poised for lake revival- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/8/2008 - 23:46 ] #  By James Janega
It was the middle of the day, and rainy and cold, hardly ideal for
perch fishing on Lake Michigan. But then, say fishermen and fish
biologists, it's been quite a while since it was ideal for perch
fishing on the Great Lakes.
For years, there haven't been many perch.
Nevertheless, Tim Krell, 45, a carpenter and optimist, stood on the dull side of Navy Pier with a pair of rods this week, slid a hook through a minnow and tossed
it at Chicago's water-filtration plant. There was plenty of room to
cast. The other fishermen had given up.
more...
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