AMSEA Blog

U.S. Coast Guard command center crews in the Northeast states have a new way to locate vessels in distress.

Mandate 17 from the State of Alaska requires that a vessel fly a to fly a “'Lima' flag or similar yellow and black pennant" if a vessel...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a network of satellites called SARSAT, that helps forecasters track weather...

An ongoing service outage has been affecting U.S. Coast Guard VHF radio stations along much of the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. The...

In an emergency, activating your vessel's EPIRB is the most certain method of summoning help. But, have you ever wondered what happens if...

We just received an FCC Enforcement Advisory from our local Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Examiner. The Federal Communications...