By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | The Orange County Register | Published: May 22, 2021 (Tribune News Service) An environmental group is asking the U.S. Navy to re-examine its operations in the Pacific Ocean following the death of two endangered fin whales that appear to have been struck by an Australian naval destroyer during a joint training exercise off San Diego. One of the whales, which had been towed out to sea after it was dislodged from the ship s hull, washed up Wednesday at Orange County s Bolsa Chica State Beach. In a letter sent this week to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Center for Biological Diversity asks the Navy to look at its three training ranges between Hawaii and Southern California and examine how the service s actions affect marine mammals and how it can further avoid killing or injuring animals.
Navy searching for possible sailor overboard from USS Theodore Roosevelt
By (0) A search and rescue effort off the Southern California coast began on Thursday after a report of a sailor overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Photo by Anthony Rivers/U.S. Navy
Dec. 11 (UPI) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt began a search off the Southern California coast for a possible sailor overboard, the Navy announced on Friday.
The Nimitz-class vessel initiated search and rescue procedures after the sighting of what appeared to be a person in the water. One member of the ship s personnel was unaccounted for during a ship-wide assembly on Thursday, the Navy s Third Fleet said in a statement.