MVGazette.com: The Steamship Authority governors Tuesday authorized $2.5 million in repairs for the Oak Bluffs ferry terminal, which was damaged in Hurricane Sandy. The main pier section of the Oak Bluffs terminal was damaged by rough seas...

IndependentRI.com: Boaters who launch from Allen Harbor have received a Christmas present from the town and the Quonset Development Corp. but they won’t find it under any Christmas tree. After years of boats running aground in the shallow, narrow...

27East.com: After a group of citizens were forced to give up their fight to resurrect a former sailing club on the shores of Mecox Bay in Water Mill , Southampton Town is planning to take up the initiative...

CapeCodOnline: A lighthouse-centric publication has joined the list of advocates hoping to save the historic Gay Head Light . The January-February issue of Lighthouse Digest, a Maine-based publication, features the Martha’s Vineyard lighthouse on its cover as...

The following excerpt appeared in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution e-newsletter for January 2013: Two robots equipped with instruments designed to “listen” for the calls of baleen whales detected 9 endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of...

The Telegraph: A study has found that, even when caught on a hook and wriggling, the fish is impervious to pain because it does not have the necessary brain power. The research, conducted by a team of seven scientists...

Sea Tow International is celebrating its 30-year anniversary in 2013. The company, founded by current CEO Joe Frohnhoefer, was launched in Southold, Long Island, in 1983 following changes in U.S. Coast Guard boater-response policy, which shifted the service’s emphasis...

Portland Press Herald: Last year was a rough year for lobstering and the industry has a lot to say about it. As part of a month-long series of meetings across the state’s coastal towns, the Division of Marine Resources...

TheDay.com: A Coast Guard cutter is leaving the city for a new home in Cleveland. Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr. said the Morro Bay will transfer this summer so it can break ice on the...

PenBayPilot.com: Dredging has begun in Camden’s inner harbor, with an expected 2,000 cubic yards of gravel, silt and rocks to be lifted from the bottom and transported to Oak Hill Cemetery on Hosmer Pond Road to help level the...