Salem Harbor
Pipe Break Sends Sewage into Salem Harbor
Salem News: A Marblehead lobsterman heading out to his boat earlier this month noticed what looked like soggy paper in the water. He also spotted an unusual amount of bird activity just offshore. After he made some phone calls,...
Paraglider Rescued on Island by Salem Harbormasters
Salem News: The last time Patrick Tarmey paraglided over Salem, he ended up in a brush with the law. This time he just ended up in the brush. The 25-year-old Peabody resident crash-landed in a berry bush on an...
Salem, MA, a Good Spot to Dive
Salem News: Instead of taking to the ski slopes this winter, Vinny Egizi took to the water. And not by boat. “I like to get lobsters,” said Egizi, a 46-year-old Beverly, Massachusetts, resident. “You go down and grab them...
High-Voltage Lines May Run Below Salem Harbor
Share this Article On Salem News: As residents and businesses brace for a two-year construction project laying high-voltage transmission lines through the heart of the downtown, the utility doing the work is studying an alternative suggested by neighbors: going...
Boater Dies of Heart Attack in Salem Sound
Salem News reports that a recreational fisherman died of an apparent heart attack while returning to port during the fast-moving storm experienced by much of New England on Thursday, June 9. The Coast Guard relayed an emergency message around...
Sailboat Towed to Safety off Salem, MA
Salem News: A 42-foot sailboat, the Sea Tryst, survived a loss of sails and generator power on a voyage from Bermuda, making it all the way to Salem—only to face disaster off Salem’s Misery Island ....
Boat Sinks in Salem, MA
The Salem News: An experienced captain exiting Salem Harbor, Massachusetts, under optimal conditions found himself swimming for his life when his 38-foot cabin cruiser sank in 2 minutes for no apparent reason. The quick action of Sam Zocco of...
Man Fined for Illegal Lobsters
Salem News: A Billerica man will pay $2,000 in fines after admitting yesterday to harvesting both immature and egg-carrying lobsters in Salem Harbor last fall. Thong Le, 44, was charged with keeping 24 “short” lobsters — lobsters less than...
Salem’s Hawthorne Cove Marina Sold
Russ Vickers, owner of Hawthorne Cove Marina in Salem, Massachusetts, has sold the facility to Brewer Yacht Yards (BYY) for a reported sum of $2.3 million. BYY owns 21 marinas on the East Coast, including 1 in Plymouth, Mass....
Salem Harbor Faces New Invader
According to a recent article in the Salem News, an invasive species of European shrimp known as the rock pool prawn (Palaemon elegans) was recently discovered at Hawthorne Cove Marina and Palmer’s Cove Yacht Club in Salem Harbor. It...
