The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing to remove nearly three dozen navigation buoys that serve as aids in Rhode Island's coastal waters warning boaters of rocky underwater reefs and channels where a ...

Some officials in New Bedford and Dartmouth say the U.S. Coast Guard should listen to SouthCoast feedback before removing ...

Buoys and beacons help boaters get to & from shore safely, similar to how traffic lights work. Here are some navigational aids you’ll find in the water.

Stuck said there are about 5,700 federal aids to navigation, including 4,600 buoys. Stuck said the navigation system is built using steel buoys on steel chains — and, in the salty ocean water, that’s ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Aids to Navigation are buoys, day beacons, lights, and signals used to help a navigator figure out the position or safe course, ...

In Maine alone, the Coast Guard is considering removing more than 150 buoys and other navigation aids along the coastline that have long helped mariners navigate coastal and inland waterways safely.

In the Local Notices To Mariners of April 15 (LNM District 1; Week 16) the Coast Guard listed the locations of buoys that would be discontinued.. The buoys targeted for removal mark harbor entrances, ...

The Coast Guard says it will accept public comments on its proposal to remove about 350 of the 5,640 buoys and navigational aids that it maintains from northern New Jersey to Maine.

The proposal would remove hundreds of buoys in ... — which represent about 6% of the 5,640 federally maintained devices — in favor of a “modern approach to physical aids to navigation ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing to remove nearly three dozen navigation buoys that serve as aids in Rhode Island's coastal waters warning boaters of rocky underwater reefs and channels where a ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing to remove nearly three dozen navigation buoys that serve as aids in Rhode Island's coastal waters warning boaters of rocky underwater reefs and channels where a ...