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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:16 The Canadian Coast Guard is opening the first Marine Mammal Desk to protect orcas and other cetaceans on Canada’s west coast. The threats to orcas, also called Southern Resident killer whales, include noise and disturbance from boats, ship strikes, entanglements and reduced availability of their favourite prey, chinook salmon. The orcas are listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act.  The non-profit Orca Network reports that, as of September 2019, there were only 74 Southern Resident killer whales. To protect them and other ceta...

I don't understand how this could possibly happen. i have talked to maine lobstermen and they are scratching their heads. don't we have sailors on the bridge with binoculars anymore? >> many watch officers are exhausted. chief of naval operations admitted many sailors are working 100 hour weeks. >> i think i know what 100 hours a week does to people over time. when someone is working 100 hours a week, over a period of time, they are going to make mistakes. >> for mccain, this is a personal one. one of the two destroyers that crashed was named for his father and grandfather. the navy is down to...

Throughout the nation. >> jon: the senate armed services committee today hearing major testimony from richard spencer and john richardson on collisions involving navy warships that resulted in the deaths of 17 sailors. jennifer griffin is monitoring and she's live now from the pentagon. >> that hearing is still ongoing, but just before the hearing began, fox news learned the outgoing head of the navy surface forces tom roden sent a new message to the fleet recommending all navy ships keep their automatic identification systems on while operating at a shipping lanes. while it would alert potent...