4 • January 17 - 30, 2014 • The Log Whale Hurts 4 on Mexico Whale-Watching Boat


MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say a boat and a humpback whale collid- ed off the coast of Baja California, injuring a U.S. tourist and three other people on board. The 67-year-old tourist and


the boat’s captain suffered injuries to their ribs and arms


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Southern Indiana City ready to remove docks for new marina


JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana city is moving ahead with its plans to dismantle boat docks along the Ohio River for a $2.2 million marina upgrade. Wednesday was the deadline


for dock renters to vacate down- town Jeffersonville’s wharf, but a few boats were still anchored at the site just north of Louisville, Ky.


Jeffersonville Mayor Mike


Moore said Thursday the docks will be dismantled as soon as the river recedes from last week’s heavy rainfall and it’s safe enough for workers. The Courier-Journal reports


that a towing service will then remove any remaining boats, whose owners will have to pay for the towing costs. The city’s marina overhaul


calls for 54 individual boat docks, a 200-foot floating fishing pier


and a dock for personal water- craft and kayaks.


in the collision in a site known as Cabo Falso, off the tip of the Baja California peninsula. Two other people on board suffered light injuries. All were rescued by the Mexican navy.


They told officials they


were sport-fishing in the area, which is outside Mexico’s des-


Officials in Washington wanted a review of ship traffic into Nome before making a decision “There are cruise ships, for


Corps of Engineers advances Arctic port study


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to recommend a con- figuration of port facilities in western Alaska that could serve ships sailing to Arctic waters. The Corps in early March will


announce which configuration of docks, harbors and other infra- structure could best serve vessels in northern U.S. waters. The choice could be Nome, nearby Port Clarence, or a combination of the Seward Peninsula loca- tions. The Alaska office of the Corps,


performing a feasibility study on behalf of the state of Alaska, has made its preferred choice from 19 iterations, said Lorraine Cordova, who heads the study. “The part of the process we’re


in right now is to get our U.S. Army Corps of Engineers head- quarters to agree to a tentatively selected plan,” she said.


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crying out loud, going into Nome, and all of them are attempting to use the same barge dock,” Cordova said. “So our traffic analysis is looking at those various user types, how long would they stay at the har- bor in previous years, and what does that vessel traffic look like in the future.” The lack of a deep-water har- bor along Alaska’s north and west coasts has been a point of concern as climate warming has made Arctic waters more accessi- ble and nations have taken an interest in the region’s resources. Royal Dutch Shell PLC in 2012 began exploratory drilling on off- shore leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, hoping to tap reserves estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey at 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. An increasing number of tour boats are transiting the Bering Strait and state officials antici- pate merchant ships one day using the Arctic Ocean for ship- ping.


ignated area for whale-watch- ing. Officials said they could not determine if the whale was hurt. January is one of the peak months for whale watching off the Baja coast, where offi- cials say there have been a large number of whale births this year.


The nearest permanent Coast


Guard facility is on Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska east of the Aleutian Islands. The three year deep-draft


port study was launched last year, and the Seward Peninsula locations, though south of the Arctic Circle and the Bering Strait, ranked highest for a deep-water port. Conversations with the Navy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Coast Guard led the Corps to seek a harbor that could handle ice-hardened vessels in the 35- foot depth range. Nome has an airport that han- dles jets but an inner boat harbor just 10 feet deep and an outer harbor at 22.5 feet. Among the 19 possible plans, the Corps is considering docks of 200, 600 and 1,000 feet and dredging to 35 feet.


About 70 miles to the north-


west is Point Spencer, a former LORAN navigation station at the tip of a spit protecting the deep waters of Port Clarence, which has offered safe haven to mariners since commercial whal- ing days. A port at Point Spencer would require dredging to deep See NEWS BRIEFS page 5


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