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Minesweeper USS Guardian Runs Aground on Reef in Philippines’ Tubbataha...
The minesweeper USS Guardian ran aground early this morning on a reef in the Philippines’ Tubbataha National Marine Park. The park is a World Heritage Site in the Sulu Sea, 640 kilometers (400 miles)...
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USS Guardian & Rainbow Warrior – Did Bad Charts Lead to Two Groundings on...
USS Guardian on Tubbataha Reef Photo:AP In 2005, when the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, ran aground on Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea, the captain claimed that the reef was incorrectly plotted...
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Time Running Out for Salvaging USS Guardian? Monsoon Winds Expected to Worsen
Photo:ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES The minesweeper USS Guardian ran aground on a reef at the Tubbataha marine park in the Sula Sea last Thursday. The ship is still there. So far there has been no...
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Update: USS Guardian – Will Be Broken Up But Why Was it Near the Reef in the...
The Navy has announced that the minesweeper, USS Guardian, which ran up on Tubbataha reef in the Philippines Sula Sea two weeks ago, will be cut up in place and hauled away. The reason given is that...
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USS Guardian Decommissioned in Japan While Salvage Delayed on Reef by Weather
Today in Japan, the US Navy officially decommissioned the minesweeper USS Guardian. On the Tubbataha Reef, where the ship ran aground on January 17, salvage operations have again been delayed by bad...
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Chinese Boat Loaded with Illegal Cargo of Endangered Species Ran Aground on...
You can’t make this stuff up. Only a week after the last wreckage of the minesweeper USS Guardian was removed from the reef in the Philippines’ Tubbataha National Marine Park, a UNESCO-designated...
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Update: Chinese Vessel Did More Damage to Tubbataha Reef than USS Guardian
Despite being smaller than the USS Guardian and spending less time aground on the Tubbataha reef, the Chinese fishing vessel F/V Min Long Yu, which ran aground on the protected reef on April 8,...
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Vestas Wind, Andrea Doria, USS Guardian, Royal Majesty and GPS Assisted...
Photo: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ At least Sir Cloudesley Shovell had an excuse, not that he really needed one. He drowned with the other 1,400 sailors in the Scilly naval disaster of 1707....
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