Posted on 06/27/2018 5:34:39 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 06/27/2018 06:19 PM EDT
MIAMI — Coast Guard Sector Miami reported a loss of radio communication capability Wednesday.
The Coast Guard cannot monitor radio traffic offshore and is urging mariners to use extreme caution throughout the Miami Captain of the Port Zone, which includes the ports and waterways surrounding Fort Pierce, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and the Miami areas.
Mariners are reminded to check all safety equipment, carry a fully charged cell phone, and file a float plan with a friend or family member before getting underway.
If in distress, mariners should attempt to call Coast Guard’s Seventh District Command Center at 305-415-6818 or 305-415-6800.
A Coast Guard aircraft has been launched to monitor communications in Sector Miami COTP Zone. The estimated time of repair is unknown, but the Coast Guard is developing a radio coverage plan in the event repairs cannot be fixed for an extended period. A press release and notification will be issued once radio communications are restored.
Kind of difficult to understand this. What failed exactly?
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Is this unusual?
Coast Guard’s ability to receive distress calls, at least.
Is the USCG one of those departments that PDJT can't touch, and can't fire anyone from, and can't call up on the phone and ask some questions without getting impeached, like the FBI and the Department of Justice?
Indeed. But that’s a pretty catastrophic hardware failure. And it shouldn’t affect the smaller units in boats.
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Avast! Tis the triangle come to reave some more souls.
I think this is the first stages of an attack. Cuba with the sound thing, then China, now this. I think we had better figure it out fast
How the hell could the United States Coast Guard find themselves with no radio comms in ANY sector of the US Coast?
This cannot be money.
MUST be incompetence at some level.
I am not comfortable with this.
On low level SAR flights we always launch a “high bird” to 10K MSL to retain comms. Why can’t USCG do that with maritime traffic?
Happened in NC in May.
In TRUTH..., in a pinch..., I knew USN techies who had to visit a local "Rat Shack" for immediate repair items while they requisitioned MilSpec through channels! It would be their ASSES if something screwed up but..., luckily for them, those 3-5% tolerance components worked until the 1% tolerance MilSpec items arrived "through channels"!
In typical military fashion, the duty OIC just said I don't care what you have to do but get it on line..., I don't want to know how!
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Subterfuge testing on the East Coast to be used later on the West Coast?
Wonder what the full scoop on this is.
Just stand on the bow a la “Titanic”, yelling “HEY! COMING THROUGH! MAKE WAY!!!” ;)
(...removes aluminium-foil Conspiracy-Theorist hat...)
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