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Red Hill Depot Halfway Through Repairs, Defueling to be Completed Next Year

A Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (RHBFSF) contractor trims a support beam during repairs at Halawa, Hawaii, on March 15, 2023. US Navy Photo

The Department of Defense’s Joint Task Force Red Hill has completed just over 50 percent of the needed repairs on the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, according to a new online public dashboard the group rolled out Tuesday.

The dashboard, a PDF that lays out where the task force is for repairs, third-party validation and repairs submitted to the...

https://news.usni.org/2023/04/05/red-hill-depot-at-repair-halfway-through-repairs-defueling-to-be-completed-next-year

BOOK REVIEW | U.S. Pacific Islanders and the Sea: A History of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (1976 – 2020)

This book is long overdue. It is the first and, to my knowledge, the only comprehensive natural resource study of modern open ocean fisheries in the US Pacific. In the bo ..

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VESSEL REVIEW | Kaiao – Wildlife observation boat for Hawaii-based research organisation

Maui-based marine research non-profit Pacific Whale Foundation (PWF) recently began operating a custom-built research vessel for the study of whales and dolphins in Hawai ..

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Pentagon: Red Hill Defueling on Track, Joint Task Force Starting Environmental Assessment

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Pearl Harbor employees uses tools to relocate contaminated soil onto a wheelbarrow as part of NAVFAC Public Works Department and Joint Task Force-Red Hill’s (JTF-RH) hazard material spill recovery operation at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (RHBFSF) in Halawa, Hawaii, Dec. 1, 2022. US Army Photo

The Navy is on target to meet the July 2024 deadline to defuel the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/17/pentagon-red-hill-defueling-on-track-joint-task-force-starting-environmental-assessment

US Coast Guard, good Samaritans rescue crew of sinking fishing vessel off Hawaii

The US Coast Guard and Good Samaritans aboard two commercial fishing vessels located and rescued the crew of a commercial fishing vessel 545 miles (877 kilometres) southw ..

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REMINISCENCES | On being thrown overboard in Hawaii’s Kauai channel

The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning of the International ..

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VIDEO: Coast Guard Tracking Russian Intelligence Ship Off Hawaii

Vishnya-class intelligence ship Kareliya (535). US Coast Guard Image

The U.S. Coast Guard monitored a Russian intelligence ship that sailed near the coast of Hawaii last week, the service announced Wednesday night.

The vessel was identified as Vishnya-class intelligence ship Kareliya (535), according to the Jan. 11 video released by the Coast Guard. Satellite photos from Jan. 10, reviewed by USNI News, show the Russian vessel coming as close to 40 kilometers, or approximately 25 miles, within...

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/19/video-coast-guard-tracking-russian-intelligence-ship-off-hawaii

New Marine Littoral Regiment Key to Expanded Pacific Security Cooperation, U.S., Japanese Leaders Say

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during the 2023 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting co-hosted with Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosting Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu, at the Department of State. Washington, D.C., Jan 11, 2023. DoD Photo

The 12th Marine Regiment will become the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment as the United States upgrades its forward-deployed forces in Japan, as part of an expansion of U.S. and...

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/12/new-marine-littoral-regiment-key-to-expanded-pacific-security-cooperation-u-s-japanese-leaders-say

REMINISCENCES | Asherah, a two-man submarine named for a Phoenician goddess

This all started in 1959 when a twenty-six-year-old who was studying for his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania was asked if he would like to direct the ..

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