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Video: Dead Dolphin Found in Brewster Today
CapeCodOnline: Officials from the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s marine mammal rescue team were in Brewster this morning taking samples of a dolphin that had died recently. Workers have been putting in long hours over the last four days...
Six More Dolphins Stranded in Wellfleet, MA
CapeCodOnline: Marine mammal experts predict the mass stranding of common dolphins along the Cape Cod Bay coastline could continue for many days, given new sightings Monday. In Provincetown Harbor on Monday, rescuers kept a close eye on 75 common...
The Fred Bully Project
By David Nathan Palmer Turning a derelict sailboat into a mini harbor launch. One day after a big storm in the fall of 2006, I came to work at the Nantucket Boat Basin and discovered the hull of a...
The Boater’s Eye: The Interactive Sailor
The main reasons I enjoy sailing are the things that make sailing, well, sailing—interaction with other crewmembers, the wind in my hair, water on my face, the sound of lines stretching, the settling of the sails to trim,...
Scenes from the East Lyme, CT, Cardboard Boat Challenge
As reported in TheDay.com, students, faculty and staff participated in the 16th Annual East Lyme High School Cardboard Boat Challenge on Wednesday, January 11. Each year, students in the school’s Engineering and pre-Engineering classes build and race cardboard boats...
Winter Life on Gurnet Point, MA
Patriot Ledger: The 4 miles down Duxbury Beach’s dirt road to Gurnet Point make for a lonely drive in the last days of December. Fliers posted on unmanned guard stands prohibit access to the private roads of the Gurnet...
Coast Guard Ends Search For Plane and Crew
The U.S. Coast Guard has ended their search for the missing aircraft and its two-person crew off Brewster, Mass., Sunday. The two people aboard the small aircraft were located deceased by a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from...
Thirty Dolphins Stranded on Cape Cod
Boston.com: A team of about 35 people worked to rescue about 30 dolphins that were stranded on Cape beaches today. The rescue teams included volunteers and workers from the New England Aquarium and the International Fund for Animal Welfare....
Sudbury River, MA, Restoration Plan Proposed
Boston.com: State and federal officials have developed a $3.7 million plan that would restore the pollution-damaged watershed along the Sudbury River containing one of the nation’s first Superfund sites. Years in the making, the plan outlines restoration of the...
Disabled Vessel Towed to Gloucester, MA
Multiple Coast Guard crews assisted a disabled fishing vessel and safely delivered it to Gloucester, Massachusetts, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Friday. The four-person crew of the 75’ stern trawler Bulldog used their radio to contact watchstanders at the Coast...
