The US Coast Guard is conducting a customer satisfaction survey of its maritime safety and security mission. Individuals are asked to provide their perception of recent interactions with the agency. The survey may be submitted anonymously, if the individual prefers. The survey addresses professionalism, regulatory stewardship, customer support, and the condition of ports and waterways, among other things.
U.S. COAST GUARD
USCG: Regional News
USCG: Homeport
USCG: Casualty Reports
USCG: QAT Report on Casualty Investigation, 1995
USCG: G-MOA Policy Letter 2-98
USCG: Boating Safety
USCG: Boating Safety Statistics
USCG: Marine Safety Center
USCG: National Maritime Center
USCG: Lifesaving & Fire Safety Division
USCG: On Scene magazine on Search & Rescue
USCG: Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council - The Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea
Procedures for Transportation
Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Program, October 22, 2008
NEW! Revised Marine Safety Performance Plan
released
(Dec. 2008) - along with public comments on the draft.
Resolution "Honoring the Heritage of the Coast Gurad" (H.Res 1382 - 2008) in the U.S. House of Representatives, September 29, 2008, AND the report detailing the resolution.
DOCUMENTED VESSELS
BY NAME
BY NUMBER
PORT STATE INFORMATION EXCHANGE
PSIX - Home
PSIX - Vessel Search
NAVIGATION
Rules of the Road - Download
Online Chart Reader
NOAA World View of charts
COAST GUARD ROLES & MISSIONS
Whither Goes the Coast Guard, 1990, rch
Roles & Missions, 1999, rch
Small Boat Stations & Surf Capable Boats, 2000, rch
HYPOTHERMIA / COLD WATER SURVIVAL
HYPOTHERMIA—ARE WE FOCUSED ON THE WRONG THING?
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Bulletin May 2004
Development of Exposure Suits by ERE 1943, 1980, rch
Emergency Care for Hypothermia, rch
Exposure Suits on Certain Inspected Vessels
Report to Congress by U.S.C.G. (mid-1980s)
T-Boat Study / U.S.C.G. / R. L. Markle / 1991
A Study of Lifesaving Systems for Small Passenger Vessels
ALASKA PROTOCOL / GUIDELINES
Cold Injury Clinical Consensus Meeting / 1998
COLD WATER Q & A / 1998
Survival in Cold Waters / 2001
Report prepared for Transport Canada
Dr. C. J. Brooks
SEA GRANT / SURVIVAL IN COLD WATER
COAST GUARD HERITAGE
LIFEBOAT STATIONS /
LIFEBOATS
U.S. Life-Saving Heritage Association
Association For Rescue At Sea
Small Boat Station and Surf /rch
CG 42001 New Rescue Boat at CG Station. Chatham
CHATHAM, Mass. - (Left to right) A Coast Guard 42-foot motor lifeboat, 36-foot motor lifeboat and 44-foot motor lifeboat gather in front of Coast Guard Station Chatham Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, for what may be the last opportunity for the three lifeboats to ever be underway together again. The 36-foot lifeboat, which is now owned by the Orleans Historical Society of Orleans, Mass., is scheduled for dry dock, and the maintenance may not be completed before the 44-foot lifeboat is decommissioned. The most notable rescue by the 36 was in 1952 when the boat crew rescued 32 men from the tanker Pendleton after it broke in half in 60-foot seas. (Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Jorgensen)
and Pendleton rescue, 18 March 1952
Pendleton Marine Board Report
There two excellent books on the S.S. PENDELTON rescue Two Tankers Down
by Robert Frump (which also details the S.S. FORT MERCER rescue as well). Review from Professional Mariner.
And, The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History by Theresa Mitchell Barbo; John Galluzzo; and Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (RET)
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LINKS to other ORGANIZATIONS
NTSB - Marine Accident Reports
MAIB
(Marine Accident Investigation Branch)
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U.S. Marine Safety Association
Good source for information on emergency
rescue equipment and service facilities for survival craft
AMSEA - Courses and Events Calendar
North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners Association
Master of Towing Vessels Association
The Deadliest, uh, make that The Dullest Catch (Doug Pines blog)
"The site for maritime professionals."
Committee on the Marine Transportation System
NEW! National Strategy for the Maritime Transportation System: A Framework for Action, July 2008
Marine Safety Foundation
COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM
See web cam of Astoria
NASBLA
National Association of Boating Law Administrators
National Mariners Association
OTHER USEFUL LINKS
Federal Register / Current year
Look for daily posting of Meeting notices / proposed / final regulations
Marine Safety Statutes (46 U.S.C. Subtitle II)
Code of Federal Regulation
Access 46 CFR and 33 CFR
and the rest of the code as well
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RESCUE SWIMMERS / IMMERSION SUITS
In the wake of the S.S. MARINE ELECTRIC disaster on February 12, 1983,
the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation (Committee on Merchant Marine & Fisheries) held a series of hearing on marine safety.
Read excerpt from testimony on September 29, 1983 that focusing on rescue swimmers.
Excerpt from the book about the Rescue Swimmer Program, So Others Might Live giving a brief sketch of the origins of the program. (You can learn more about the behind the scenes efforts by reading this article.)
Review of So Others Might Live in Wreck and Rescue, the Journal of the U.S. Life-Saving Heritage Association.
Sec. 9 of Public Law 98-557 (98 Stat. 2862, Oct. 30, 1984) A bill to authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 1985 and 1986, and for other purposes. "Directs the Secretary to establish a helicopter rescue swimming program to train Coast Guard personnel.", See also Senate Report.
Sec. 9, required Secretary of department in which Coast Guard was operating to use such sums as necessary, from amounts appropriated for operation and maintenance of Coast Guard, to establish helicopter rescue swimming program for purpose of training selected Coast Guard personnel in rescue swimming skills, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104-324, title II, Sec. 213(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3915.
Also, as a direct result of the MARINE ELECTRIC disaster, Congress required in Sec. 22 of Public Law 98-557 immersion suits on most commercial vessels (except uninspected vessels. e.g. fishing vessels and towing vessels). See also Senate Report.
The definitive work on the S.S. MARINE ELECTRIC disaster is Until the Sea Shall Free Them, by Robert Frump
NAVY Memorial, Washington, DC
WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!
"When you know you have saved somebody’s life, the only word to describe it is: euphoria. This is what we join the Coast Guard to do — there are many other missions we have — but this what we join the Coast Guard to do, save other lives. There is absolutely no better feeling than when somebody says, "Thanks, you saved my life."
LCDR Laura Guth, USCG,
Speaking about the rescue of the crew, F/V Alaskan Monarch.
From Savage Seas; Killer Waves & Rescues, a PBS presentation
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