Sanctuary
Boat Captain Honored for Heroic
Rescue
The U.S. Department of Commerce
recently awarded its Gold Medal in Heroism to Channel
Islands National Marine Sanctuary NOAA Corp LCDR Mark H.
Pickett for "exemplary courage and heroism" in saving the
lives of two U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) employees after a
capsizing of the Channel Islands Sanctuary vessel R/V
Ballena on November 4, 2000.
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Sanctuary Explorer
Describes Life Below the Waves
Cathy Sakas, education coordinator for
the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, and five other
aquanauts spent nine days in Aquarius, an undersea
laboratory off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary.
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about her adventures
Sanctuary's
Researchers Reach Deep Dives
A Olympic Coast National Marine
Sanctuary research team, monitoring the effects of
fiber-optic cables on the ocean floor, reaped additional
benefits. Using Delta, a two-person submersible,
scientists conducted 55 dives throughout the
mission.
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more
National
Marine Sanctuary System's New
Director
On January 10, 2001, Dr. James D.
Baker, the NOAA's Administrator and Under Secretary for
Oceans and Atmosphere, named Daniel J. Basta as Director of
the National Marine Sanctuary System.
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on Dan Basta
Great Lakes
Marine Sanctuary Manager Search
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
and Underwater Preserve, the nation's newest marine
sanctuary, began a search for a sanctuary manager to help in
the protection of a nationally significant collection of
over 100 shipwrecks, spanning over a century of Great Lakes
shipping history.
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Sanctuary
scientists discover shipwreck
Olympic Coast National Marine
Sanctuary archaeologists and staff have located the steel
hull of the Temple Bar, wrecked among the Quillayute
Needles in 1939.
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on the Olympic Coast wreck
'Elye'wun's
Historic Channel Crossing
It's been more than 125 years since a
Chumash tomol was paddled across the rough waters of the
Channel Islands. On September 8, NOAA's Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) staff members, aboard the
NOAA support research vessel Xantu, were witness to
an historic tomol crossing reports the sanctuary's Cultural
Resources Coordinator Robert Schwemmer.
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more
January 8, 2002
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