Tag: Canadian Coast guard

Canadian police is investigating a suspected vandalism involving the Canadian Coast Guard ship 'CCGS Corporal McLaren', which is at the moment partially submerged in the water, after falling from its secured cradle at a shipyard in Sambro Head, N.S. The vessel was there for repairs. A spokesman from the shipyard said the cradle cable and safety chain was cut with a cordless mini-grinder. 

As part of its commitment to ensure safety in Canadian waters, the Government of Canada announced plans for acquisition and conversion of three medium commercial icebreakers. The first ship will be put to immediate use for icebreaking during the upcoming 2018-2019 season.

Coast Guard crews concluded the nation's largest domestic ice operation known as Taconite, Thursday, after more than five months of ice breaking operations in the Northern Great Lakes.

Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crash kills 3

Using mock cruise ship grounding The United States and Canadian governments are partnering to practice readiness response during this years Canadian/United States Atlantic 2011 exercise (CANUSLANT) in Bar Harbor May 18 and 19.CANUSLANT2011 is designed to establish a learning environment for players to exercise emergency response plans, policies, and procedures as they pertain to a grounded cruise ship that is significant enough to justify activation of a coordinated joint US/Canada response under the Atlantic Geographic Annex.The CANUSLANT 2011 Exercise will evolve around the grounding of a large cruise ship in the vicinity of GRAND MANAN ISLAND near the U.S. Canadian Border with a simulated Mass Rescue Exercise occurring on May 18th within the Port area of Bar Harbor and the CANUSLANT Exercise occurring in the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel, Bar Harbor Maine.The United States and Canada recognized the need for an international marine pollution contingency plan for their adjacent contiguous waters more than 30 years ago. The first such plan was the Joint Marine Pollution Contingency Plan for the Great Lakes, promulgated in 1974 under the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972.Under the Atlantic Geographic Annex, the Coast Guards of both countries are required to conduct biennial exercises ...