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SD-2022 is one of two Saildrone Voyager USVs launched in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative. Saildrone photo.

Saildrone launches Florida mapping mission

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The SS. United States arrived in Mobile, Ala., March 3 after a 12-day, 1,800-mile tow from Philadelphia. Okaloosa County Board of Commissioners photo.

SS United States arrives in Mobile

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The SS United States under tow off Cape Hatteras, N.C., a few days after it departed Philadelphia Feb. 19. Mike Vinik/Vinik Marine photo.

SS United States nears end of East Coast passage

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The Kōloa Rum Company filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Jones Act, arguing the 1920 law violates a clause in the Constitution that prohibits Congress from favoring ports of one state over another. Kōloa Rum Company photo. The Kōloa Rum Company

Hawaiian rum distillery contests Jones Act

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The SS United States passes under the Walt Whitman Bridge at Philadelphia Feb. 19. Fox News 29 video image.

SS United States departs Philadelphia

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Tugs moved the SS United States between piers in South Philadelphia Feb. 14, in preparation for a planned two-week tow for bringing the ship to Mobile, Ala. Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners video image.

High winds force new delay for SS United States tow

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Right whales on the surface between Hudson and Block Canyons 40 to 70 miles south of Long Island, N.Y., photographed by the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial survey. New England Aquarium photo/NMFS permit # 25739.

New artificial intelligence tool predicts right whale movements

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The SS United States was moved from its longtime berth in Philadelphia Feb. 14. Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners video image.

SS United States tow rescheduled for Feb. 18

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An intense search was underway Feb. 6 for a missing crew member from the Coast Guard cutter Waesche in the eastern Pacific, about 300 miles south of Mexico. Coast Guard photo.

Search for missing Coast Guard crewman in eastern Pacific

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The SS United States at its berth in Philadelphia. Okaloosa County Board of Commissioners photo.

Plan to tow SS United States from Philadelphia delayed

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Although personnel were aboard both vessels during the trial, DARPA noted no individuals were involved in operations on the receiving side, demonstrating the potential for human-free refueling on USVs. DARPA photo.

Unmanned surface vessel program completes fueling-at-sea test

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President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 executive order directs the Department of Interior to begin a process for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on government maps and documents. Shutterstock photo.

Trump moves to formalize ‘Gulf of America’

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President Donald Trump at his 2025 inauguration said he believed "I was saved by God to make America great again." CNN video image.

Trump first priorities call for 'energy emergency,' ending wind power leases

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