Public Safety Dive Teams: Always Ready
the same mission-focus and devotion – anytime, rain or shine. In 2014 Detective Bill Nichols, team leader for the Oneida County Public Safety Dive Team in Rhinelander Wis., along with a group of like-minded Public Safety Scuba Divers from agencies around the state of Wisconsin formed the Midwest Public Safety Diver’s Association. These divers came together with the support of their agencies to create a resource network that could support public safety dive teams in the Midwest by opening communications to share information training, equipment, operations and policies. In
Proposed Sanctuaries Aim to Protect Historic Shipwrecks
37 known shipwrecks including Wisconsin's two oldest known shipwrecks discovered to date – the Gallinipper (1833) and the Home (1843). As many as 80 shipwrecks are still yet to be discovered in the proposed sanctuary. The ships here played critical roles in the settlement and development of the Midwest during the 19th and early 20th centuries. In Maryland, NOAA is proposing a national marine sanctuary along a 52-square-mile stretch of the tidal Potomac River, adjacent to Charles County. Mallows Bay contains more than 100 known and still to be discovered shipwrecks, including the remains
Sea Level Rise Projected to Displace 13 million in U.S. by 2100
of a magnitude similar to the 20th century Great Migration of southern African-Americans," the researchers wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change, referring to the movement of more than 6 million black people from the rural South during an era of institutionalized racism to cities of the North, Midwest and West from the 1910s until 1970. The researchers said more than a quarter of residents of major urban centers such as Miami and New Orleans could face coastal flooding. Three counties could see the displacement of 80 percent of their population: Florida's Monroe County, site of the Florida
Seacor Holdings Posts Q1 Loss of $1.10/Share
. Operating income was $17.5 million lower in the first quarter primarily due to an $18.2 million reduction in the results of the dry-cargo barge pools as a consequence of lower rates, reduced activity levels following the seasonal harvest and poor operating conditions due to harsh weather in the Midwest during the first quarter. Foreign currency losses, net of $1.1 million in the first quarter were primarily due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar versus the Colombian peso. Equity in earnings of 50% or less owned companies of $10.5 million during the preceding quarter was primarily due
Large Dead Zone Found in Gulf of Mexico
in May by the USGS, pointed to an average size hypoxia area based on the inputs which fuel mid-summer's dead zone algal growth," said Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), who led the survey cruise. "If the heavy rains in the upper Midwest in June and the record high nitrate concentration in the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge on July 18 had coincided with a later survey, chances are that the area would have been larger. The high phytoplankton biomass and large area of fresher water would have eventually led to more bottom-water
Predator II ROV Put through its Paces @ FAU
;s (GEG) Director of Operations - Bruce Morris at the FAU Dania Beach Campus. Great Eastern Group had performed the research and design developmental testing in the U.S. market for the initial Predator I ROV system. GEG is the distributor for the Predator II ROV system on the U.S. East Coast & Midwest regions. According to guests, the Predator II ROV system was visually stunning and impressed all with the new topside arrangement, a particularly important note as Morris had first-hand experience with the Predator 1 system. Important, too, was that the screen was bright and the general consensus
NOAA Satellites Helped Save 253 People in 2013
The same NOAA satellites that helped forecasters predict severe weather, such as the Moore, Okla., tornado last May and November’s deadly Midwest tornado outbreak, also played a key role in rescuing 253 people from potentially life-threatening scenarios throughout the United States and its surrounding waters last year. A combination of NOAA polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites detected distress signals from emergency beacons carried by downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and stranded hikers and relayed information about their location to first responders on the ground. NOAA satellites
Underwater Metal Detecting
like the Pulse 8X, come with all the accessories needed for land and underwater detecting, making them in effect, two detectors in one. The 8X is popular with many land detector enthusiasts, especially those searching for meteorites in the deserts of America’s southwest and the large fields of the Midwest. According to local Stacy Brown, “collectors pay serious money for some of these space rocks”. The Pulse Induction technology (PI) used in underwater detectors make them ideal for searching deserts and other areas with a high mineral content because PI machines ignore mineralization
Scientists Predict All Surpassing GofM Dead Zone
or during the official measurement survey cruise scheduled from July 25-August 3 2013. If a storm does occur the size estimate could drop to a low of 5344 square miles, slightly smaller than the size of Connecticut. This year’s prediction for the Gulf reflect flood conditions in the Midwest that caused large amounts of nutrients to be transported from the Mississippi watershed to the Gulf. Last year’s dead zone in th e Gulf of Mexico was the fourth smallest on record due to drought conditions, covering an area of approximately 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than
February 2024
