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NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) -- One early morning this week in ocean waters off the coasts of Rhode Island and New York, signs of the nascent wind
The battleship-gray vessel is on the prowl.
The battleship-gray vessel is on the prowl.
One early morning this week in ocean waters off the coasts of Rhode Island and New York, signs of the nascent wind industry were all around. Giant upright steel tubes poked from the water, waiting for ships to hoist up turbines that will make electricity driven by wind.
So Aaron Smith, president of the Offshore Marine Service Association, was looking through binoculars to see whether ships servicing the new wind farms were using foreign-flagged vessels instead of U.S.-made ships with American crews.