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January 08, 2009
How SARSAT works (260.57 KB)

Beginning Feb. 1, 2009, the Coast Guard and other search-and-rescue personnel will only receive distress alerts broadcast using digital 406 MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons. Search and rescue satellites will no longer process older model analog EPIRBs that only transmit on 121.5 or 243 MHz. The COSPAS-SARSAT is an international satellite system whose mission is to protect life and property by providing accurate, timely, and reliable distress and security alert and location information to search and rescue authorities. This is an illustration of how the system works.
November 21, 2008
Units of the Great Lakes (695.33 KB)
October 21, 2008
2008 Great Lakes International Ice Breaking Conference Agenda (2.79 MB)
September 18, 2008
09-18-08 Great Lakes Fact Sheet (378.33 KB)
September 04, 2008
Great Lakes Fact Sheet (408.91 KB)
August 29, 2008
Safety Zone for the Cleveland National Air Show (198.53 KB)

CLEVELAND - The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on Lake Erie. This zone is intended to restrict vessels from a portion of Lake Erie and Cleveland Harbor during the August 27-September 1, 2008, Cleveland National Air Show. The safety zone is necessary to protect persons and vessels from the potential safety hazards associated with high speed, low altitude acrobatic and military aircraft. The rule is effective from 8 a.m. through 6 p.m., on August 27, 2008 to September 1, 2008.
July 15, 2008
07-15-2008 CERTIFICATE FOR JEREMY L. PLYER (279.84 KB)

OSWEGO, N.Y. - A U.S. Coast Guard Reservist, who is also an Oswego Deputy Sheriff, will receive the Coast Guard's Certificate of Valor for heroic actions performed on November 24, 2005, during a ceremony, here, on Wednesday. Jeremy L. Plyer will be presented with the ceretificate by Rear Adm. Peter V. Neffenger, commander of the Ninth Coast Guard District, at Coast Guard Station Oswego on July 16, 2008, at 2 p.m.
June 12, 2008
06-12-2008 NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING (73.73 KB)
Regulated Navigation Area and Safety Zone, Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Romeoville, IL
May 28, 2008
05-28-08 2007 Summary of Great Lakes Ballast Water Management (369.43 KB)

The 2007 Summary of Great Lakes Ballast Water Management report was compiled by the Great Lakes Ballast Water Working Group (BWWG), comprised of representatives of the United States Coast Guard - Ninth District, the U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Transport Canada - Marine Safety, and the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. The group meets regularly throughout the year to develop, enhance, and coordinate binational enforcement and compliance efforts to reduce the introduction of aquatic invasive species via ballast water. The BWWG is actively engaged and providing an energetic response to calls for tougher ballast water regulation of ocean-going ships transiting the Seaway. The attached file is the full report.
May 20, 2008
Hamilton's spirit lives on in Coast Guard boarding program (25.32 KB)

Written by Frank Jennings, Jr. Recreational Boating Specialist Enforcement Branch Ninth Coast Guard District Cleveland, Ohio

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