This blog post provides comments made by Ms. Dana Tulis, director of incident management and preparedness policy, during the opening plenary Q&A session at this year’s International Oils Spill Convention in Long Beach, California.
5/16/2017: MSIB 06-17 Electro-Technical Officer and Electro-Technical Rating endorsements
This MSIB addresses recent instances of port States misinterpreting requirements of III/6 and III/7 of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW), 1978, as amended.
5/12/2017: Safety Alert 04-17 – Work or play, it’s a shared waterway
This safety alert discusses the importance of knowing navigation rules when operating in a shared waterway.
5/12/2017: Preview – Coast Guard at IOSC 2017
This post provides a preview of the topics Coast Guard presenters will be talking about at the 2017 International Oil Spill Conference in Long Beach, California, May 15-18, 2017.
5/10/2017: 3rd Annual Offshore Training Symposium – meeting recap
This post provides a recap of the 3rd Annual Offshore Training Symposium at Coast Guard Headquarters, during which regulatory agencies and response partners exchanged ideas, learned about each others’ capabilities, and discussed the future of offshore environmental response operations.