Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Coast Guard Bulletin
Author: U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin
Author: U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin
Author: Coast Guard Bulletin
Author: U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin
Author: Red Crew
Author: Jim HowePublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice. In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a “multi-crewing” concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors—the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews—rotating among three hulls. Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard’s war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.
OSV Chemical Code
Author: International Maritime OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9789280116977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This present Code has been developed for the design, construction and operation of offshore support vessels (OSVs) which transport hazardous and noxious liquid substances in bulk for the servicing and resupplying of offshore platforms, mobile offshore drilling units and other offshore installations, including those employed in the search for and recovery of hydrocarbons from the seabed. The basic philosophy of the present Code is to apply standards contained in the Code and the International Code or the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code) and in the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code) to the extent that is practicable and reasonable taking into account the unique design features and service characteristics of OSVs.
Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council
Author: United States. Merchant Marine CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : de
Pages : 688
Book Description
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: Bulletin
Author: U.S. Lake SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description