GALENA, MO. - A Missouri judge today made the decision to dismiss all charges for the duck boat operators in the 2018 tragedy in stormy weather on Table
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A fire aboard the 75-foot dive boat Conception killed all 33 passengers and one of the vessel’s six crew members in September 2019. (Photo: Ventura County Fire Department)
On January 15, 2021, the U.S. Coast Guard issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for Safety Management System (SMS) requirements in the domestic passenger vessel industry (Docket No. USCG-2020-0123). This requirement will have the largest implications on the domestic passenger vessel industry since the revisions of 46 CFR Subchapter T & K in the mid-90s. However, the question remains, is it necessary?
Over the last three decades, the effectiveness and need for Safety Management Systems (SMS) have been at the forefront of discussion by operators and regulators in all maritime sectors, both domestically and internationally. The most recent domestic regulatory requirement was introduced in the tugboat and towing vessel industry wi
By Justin Katz
Alejandro Mayorkas as deputy DHS secretary in 2016. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lora Ratliff)
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday said his agency has formed a task force to combat ransomware and that the White House is actively developing its own plan to confront the issue.
The DHS task force includes representatives from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Secret Service, Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Homeland Security Investigations unit, according to Mayorkas. The new task force is part of the secretary s planned 60-day sprint on ransomware, which he announced in March would be the first in a series of new efforts.
By Justin Katz
Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden administration s candidate to lead the Department of Homeland Securit, shown at an agency event in 2016. (Photo credit: Petty Officer 3rd Class Lora Ratliff / U.S. Coast Guard)
Alejandro Mayorkas, at his Senate confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security, said he will review the federal government s two major cybersecurity programs in the wake of the SolarWinds breach.
Mayorkas said he would conduct a thorough review of Einstein and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation [programs] to understand whether Einstein and CDM … are appropriately designed and appropriately and effectively executed to stop a threat such as SolarWinds.